Moose bullet

All what is the best bullet for Moose hunting with my Winchester 7mm Magnum? The territory is NewFoundland and we have been told the shooting distance can get outside 300 yards.

Just about any bullet will serve out past 300 yards, where the bullet velocity has dropped off. What you need to be concerned about is the ultra high velocity impact at 50 to 100 yards, where anything but a premium bullet will come apart. Stick with the Nosler Partition or Swift A-Frame bullets.

It never fails. Just when you are all set up to make that long range shot, one wanders right into camp.

I have hunted many types of game.If it was me shooting the 7mm at moose i would start with the Nosler Partition,And also the Nosler Fail Safe,,They hold weight retention very well.Another one to consider (my favorite)is the Hornady S.S.T,(Super shock tipped),,Any one of those would be great for out to 300 yards and beyond and anything closer,,,,any one of the premeium bullets will work well,,You want a bullet that will stay together and penatrate deep..have to try different ones to see what will shoot good..

Pretty good advice overall...except Nosler Partitions don't 'hold weight retention very well' nor do they 'stay together'...as they weren't designed to. The Partition nearly always sheds the front of the bullet, retaining about 60% of it's weight.

Whatever works for Deer will do just fine on a Moose but get closer than 300 yards. Most Moose here in Maine are shot in the road at under 100 yards. It's no fun trying to drag a 900 pound critter very far.

160 to 175 grain bullet of good construction. Moose are not very hard to kill. Those moose are not nearly as big as our Alaska/Yukon moose and many, including myself, have harvested dozens with 270's and 30-06's with no problems. I can't ever remember of shooting one over 75 yards....but then there is quite a bit of trees in our area of Alaska with small openings.

You will have no trouble with the 7m/m Mag. with what I recommended.

A gal in Alaska clued me in on how to section a big animal. Put vegetable oil in the chain oil reservoir and use a small chainsaw to cut a big animal into sections. If you whack 900 lbs of moose into 9-100 lb sections, you can pack the whole thing a level mile (or 500 feet vertically) in just 12 hours or so. Still not fun, but do-able.

Take plenty of towels, soap and water with you. You would not believe how messy doing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre on a big animal is. Peel back the hide before you make the cut, or you will get hair in the meat.

He'll likely be in tundra type area up there or in low tundra bush. 300 yds is a might far for most people, but certainly doable. Not as tough to drag them up there.

I saw a really funny one last year. Driving up the start of the Golden Road in Millinocket. Saw a Mass truck pulled over at the spot where the two little ponds are on either side of the road. Sure enough, the guy had dropped one about 350 yds away on the other side of the pond on the right. I damned near pee'd ,my pants laughing.

I got out and walked over to the two guys who were literally jumping for joy. Asked who shot it. Told the guy it was one nice shot. Then asked how he figured on getting the critter. That quieted them down just a bit. I suggested that they might go into town and start begging to borrow a boat. I guess they must have gotten one, because I came back through about 4 hours later and they and the moose were gone.

People need to think a bit before they pull the trigger on something that large. I've always wondered how many moose are left in the woods once people realize they can't get them out easily.

I've been partridge hunting/deer spotting out by Lobster Lake at least a mile into the woods and seen people moose hunting. That really ticks me off. It is doable, and I know people who would put that kind of effort into it, but with the warm weather we sometimes have, the thing would start to spoil before you could drag it that far. Even with a gas winch.

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I am a Canadian hunter who hunts the far north regions of Ontario. Of the four moose shot in our camp my buddy was using a 308cal which did quite fine on all of them, he actually knocked the cow down at about 100yds with a nice neck shot.

I use to use 30-06 in 180gr Federal Nosler Partition and now have downsized to hte 308 using Hornady's new Light Magnum loads in 165gr SP