My 2016 bull moose was less than 20 yards away locked up with another bull in a willow swamp. I got too close because I foolishly thought I could find a shooting lane.
I shot high in the shoulder to get above the brush and because I was so freaking close thought "It has to work!" Barnes 168gr TTSX, 30-06. At the shot the bull stood straight up and fell over backward. I sneaked in closer to put in a finisher, then looked up to see the other bull giving me a seriously mean stare. I backed out of the area and into a small copse of stunted spruce.
On autopsy there were three entrance and exit wounds on each side. High enough to clip the top end of the backstraps about where the neck starts. The fragments took out serious bone in the dorsal processes and kept on going. The holes looked like the bullet went through side ways and through a serious chunk off each end.
