Bill N - If the first shot is good, the next several ain't gonna speed the process on a moose unless it is a CNS. All those extra rounds will do is ruin more meat.
Bustards take awhile to fill up and die with lung shots...
I've done it both ways.....
. Best not to excite them....
I agree, lots of cartridges and bullets work. Put one in the boiler room and the moose will die. The problem is sometimes it doesn’t happen that way as was the case in 2000. And some of those moose didn’t stand there waiting to be shot again. That may be the norm in Alaska but a few of the moose taken that year Maine ended up in a swamp or a ravine and it took hours to get them out.
My point was to use a gun that is capable of putting a moose down quickly. I guess the 7x57 could do that but I probably wouldn’t intentionally take a shoulder shot with one like I did with the Whelen. If I’m paying 5k for a hunt or drew a tag I may never draw again, I’m using something that can anchor a moose from any angle. To each his own.
