Near to our hunting camp in East Central Saskatchewan an old timer lived and hunted in the 1950-1970's era. He was a moose hunting specialist, and his family and friends "party" hunted. Pushing bush for moose. This was strictly meat hunting, either sex, shoot them "on the run" type of hunting. The only rifle that man used was a .250 Savage 99. He was a good shot, and so was usually designated shooter whether or not the moose was to be "his". The meat was all shared by the hunting party anyway. He shot more than 50 moose with that little rifle, using only 100 gr. factory loads. Never lost a moose that I know of, but he usually kept shooting until the moose dropped, and they always hunted when there was tracking snow. I bought mine after hearing that story from his grandson, who coveted that rifle. The .250 is quite a capable cartridge. I only ever used mine for deer, but it obviously works for them too.
