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Wouldn't be my first choice but put a Barnes TTSX in it, and I'd use it!

140?

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Or he could go the 160 Partition route near 2700 fps.

140 grain Partition, break shoulders, and keep shooting until it is down.

"Or he could go the 160 Partition route near 2700 fps."

"140 grain Partition, break shoulders, and keep shooting until it is down."

Split the difference and go 150 PT?

175 PT and get close? Never shot one but that is what I would use in a 7mm-08

One of our Alaskan posters has a wife who has taken at least two moose, both one-shot kills, with her 7mm-08 over the last couple of years. With the right bullet and a cool hand, it will do the job.

Dont the Swedes use 6.5 on their moose? And with success for many many years.

I believe our own Steve Timm has killed the crap out of them with 120 BT's.

The 162 AM has worked great from our 7-08's on bull moose, and I'd have zero hesitation using a 120-140 TTSX or a heavy PT.

I haven't used the 7mm-08, but used the 7x57 on my last moose, with 160-grain North Forks at 2650 fps. This was a mature but not exceptional Alberta bull. Typical of many moose, it stopped and stood there after the first shot landed about a third of the way up the body, behind the shoulder, where I'd aimed. Whereupon my guide (required for non-residents in Alberta) suggested I shoot it again, because he didn't want the bull dying in some nearby thick brush. So I did, which started the moose slowly walking toward the brush. He died near the edge, 19 yards from where he'd been standing at the first shot. The second bullet landed about two inches from the first, and I suspect if we'd just waited a little longer he would have dropped from the first shot, without moving. But who knows?

Might be doing another Alberta moose hunt this year, and if so would consider taking my 6.5x55 loaded with 140 Nosler Partitions.

154gr Hornady is one of the tougher bullets out there. My buddy's wife used one on a big bull elk several years ago, then they got out their knives.

I would use a 30-06 180 grain cokloc if you have one. Otherwise 140 Barnes TTSX and use it.

The bullet second from right started out as a 160 grain Failsafe in my Model Seven 7mm-08 years ago. It was one of two that caught a nice bull one winter as he strode up the shoulder of a hill. The distance was closer to 300 yards than 200 by my estimation on that day. The other bullet whizzed through the lung-lattice broadside. This one entered the heavy shoulder muscles and stopped against the heavy spine bones.

'More' is never a bad idea if distances are stretched on animals that are well put together. That, or just keep your shots in the lungs and just about anything works.

One of my high school classmates shot a moose in NH a few years ago with a 140 grain Partition from a 7mm-08. One shot through the lungs killed it, but as with Mule Deer's moose, it stood there and wobbled a little before realizing that it was dead on its feet and should have the courtesy to fall over. IIRC, the range was just shy of 200 yards, lasered after the fact, and the bullet was found under the hide on the off-side with very little blood outside, but the pleural cavity full blood and lung pudding.

Them cokloc bullets do freeze a bull in his tracks.....

Seems pretty typical from what I've observed. I've rarely seen them get lit up; generally just keep doing what they were doing before the hole hit them. Long holes trump craters in that regard however.

I've participated in many a moose kill with everything from 243 on up and I agree with John.......put one shot behind the shoulder into the lungs and wait a minute for him to drop. This can be done from a frontal angle also.
No shoulder breaking for me and I've had poor results from neck shots......the neck being a huge muscle mass on an old bull......two 180 TSX from 300 WSM didn't exit nor drop the bull as the spine wasn't hit.
I've reviewed video of 16 moose kills our party filmed and I find no noticeable effect from a second shot after a bull has been lung shot with the first round.

Last year, I gave my buddies 16 YO daughter a shortened 700 in 270 and some 130NP ammo. A quick anatomy lesson on where to hit em and she was off on her first moose hunt. She tucked one 130NP inside the shoulder on first shot and the bull collapsed within 20 seconds. Sixty-one incher!

So yes....your 7-08 will do just fine.

Someone on this site said "It ain't the arrow....it's the Indian".......

I wouldn't hesitate to take a 7mm-08 for Moose. A sturdy bullet would be my only prerequisite.