I am a slow learner, I guess. Twice I have had "dead" moose come off the ground when I had approached within a few feet from the front.
Now I come in from the side or rear, and they get an insurance shot to the head from a few yards out.
THEN I do the muzzle to eye-twitch thing, hot chamber, safety off. I neglected that once on a spike bull laying out in about 16 inches of water and muck after the insurance shot, and just parked the rifle against a bush on dry ground 20 feet away.
When I grabbed his antlers to pull his head around to get him back to shore, he blinked...
Teleportation is a FACT!
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