Is it common to get limited penetration with an arrow on moose? I've never seen a moose shot with a bow in person, but would assume it would be similar to elk. The only thing I can think of is if it was so close that the arrow wasn't spinning yet and that somehow limited penetration????????
I would venture a guess he's shooting lighter than max weight and hit the off side shoulder . I shot a 7x7 elk in NM at 12 yards and did exactly that and penetration was similar. A good bow flings an arrow in the neighborhood of about 300+ fps and kenetic energy drops fast once resistance is applied. I'm not a fan of the fast and light when bowhunting .
After watching it a couple more times , if you can freeze it at 1:47 to 1:50 it looks like he got reel good penetration up to the fletching . Could be he went through and when the bull lunged forward he broke the arrow and it is begining to fall out, may be ? Just a though , either way the footage is awesome.
I don't bow hunt for moose, but I do rifle hunt them each year. They are a lot of fun to call in, but once they get to 50' away, for me, the fun is replaced by extreme caution. Rutting bulls are extremely dangerous. And they are very quick. By the 50' radius, we either decide that they are this year's meat, or we make it obvious to them that we aren't another moose, and try to send them on their way.
There is a youtube video that shows a bow moose hunter with one almost in his lap. When he loosed his arrow, the bull, no more than 15' away, came after the archer, who barely got out of the way of the lowered rack. That hunter was very lucky.
No chance that will better Cussack's moose... Not that it isn't a seriously big moose, but Cussack's is big for B&C...
Cusack.
Okay...
Not a fan, but have to admit the small plane crash in front of his lodge where he and his son went out in rough stuff and dragged people out of a sinking plane... the last one or two from under the surface was gutsy... All survived where none would have otherwise. art
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
Cussack killed the #1 P&Y Yukon moose... It is in the Dimond Center life-size mounted.
Is there more than one there? The one I saw didn't strike me as a special moose; figured it for a gangly city critter that ate one too many mountain ash, or something. I guess I'm not one who looks for great scoring however. I like the looks of the specimen in the vid.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
I was thinking of the world record moose taken by John Crouse, which is a bit bigger bull than the Cusack bull, which is why I thought maybe you made a mistake in your post Art.
