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"DADDY"
My 16yo daughter shot her CO ML cow moose Sun evening around 7pm on day two of her hunt. Sunday evening was overcast and drizzly. It was getting dark in a hurry and wet, so I worked very quickly just getting it quartered leaving the hide on until later. We were loaded and back in camp (an hour away) by 10pm, and then skinned everything out before hanging. Good thing we took the quick breakdown route too, because as I was loading the last quarter into the truck it started pouring. I tarped it all and we drove slowly back to camp barely able to see with all the rain and now darkness. Big fat cow, she was pretty psyched for her first big game kill. And fat is an understatement. She had 3" of fat even covering her backstraps. Never seen anything like it.
We tried the 340gr Hornady ELD-X Bore Driver's this year and it did the job. One shot through the lungs and she went down quickly. There was a lot of blood all around the area she went down in. Most blood I've seen from a ML shot. She would have been easy to track if we had to.
We tried the 340gr Hornady ELD-X Bore Driver's this year and it did the job. One shot through the lungs and she went down quickly. There was a lot of blood all around the area she went down in. Most blood I've seen from a ML shot. She would have been easy to track if we had to.
Putting another moose in the freezer is all fine and dandy, but trying to find them is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
