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F&G and wildlife troopers regularly have to dispatch moose. bears and an occasional bison with slugs.....no problem!
F&G did a bear eradication project a few years back and killed over 100 from a heli. The bears were taken to villages
where they were butchered and meat distributed. The locals complained that the Brenneke slugs ruined too much meat so
they switched to Foster slugs and locals claimed they could eat up to the hole. The shooter required more shots per kill.
That gave more holes to eat up to!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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Seems I recall Mule Deer's (JB) wife killed a moose with a slug gun? I'm very foggy on it, maybe somebody else or John can chime in?
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I have a good friend that has started hunting some of the fishing accesses (MT FWP) around home to fill an extra doe tag or two. He takes a disabled friend with him and all he can legally use is a shotgun due to it's location. He has shot more than a few deer there as has his friend. Last year while he was on foot by himself, a cow elk jumped the fence and walked by him about 100 yds. He got it with one shot. ---legally by the way. He uses a Rem 870 with the rifled barrel and real expensive sabot ammo. It also has a scope on it.
I don't know anybody else that hunts big game with a shotgun, but I am getting old! Not crippled yet!
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Seems I recall Mule Deer's (JB) wife killed a moose with a slug gun? I'm very foggy on it, maybe somebody else or John can chime in? Yes, Eileen did take a moose on the Canyon Ferry WMA which is less than a mile north of their hometown. I've also killed several WT deer on that same WMA with slug guns chambered in 12, 16 and 20 ga, and with traditional slugs and modern sabots. All worked fine and I wouldn't hesitate to shoot most BG with a good slug gun - within its range limitations.
Pursuit may be, it seems to me, perfect without possession.
Robert Kelley Weeks (1840-1876)
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Good replies guys. I've killed a truck load deer with 12 gauge slugs. That was before most of the State opened up for rifles several years ago. I know slugs would do the job on elk, within reason, and wondered how prevalent their use is. Based on the replies, more prevalent than I would have guessed. Thanks.
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