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This years first bull moose!!
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<Made in Sweden>
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At the first day of the hunt, I downed a nice bull moose, weighing in at around 900 pounds, with a twelve peg rack. The moose presented itself on a clearcut in the forest around 140 yards away, running with a angled broadside slightly away from me... I immediately raised my 9,3x62 and aimed roughly a meter in front of where I wanted to hit the running moose. As the bullet struck him he went down as a sack of potatoes, trying to get up with his forelegs, bellowing and kicking. I had spined him and taken out his lungs and he finally stopped moving after a few minutes. The Norma Alaska was recovered just under the skin on the off side, with a separated leadcore. I guess this would be a good case for the bonded core bullets, but since moose generally are weakskinned animals, I think I will stick to the Alaska for increased woundchannels in softer parts of the moose. If anyone has just shot a moose please let us hear about it!!!
 
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Weidmannsheil!

Pictures?
 
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Thanks!
Pictures are coming soon!! I�ll go have them developed this afternoon!
 
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Congratulations.

9.3x62 seems a great calibre.

Saad
 
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Daniel M
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Felicitaciones for your first Moose of the season

Daniel
 
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can�t get the image to work in my posts..... gotta ask Saeed!!!
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Congrats! Where were you hunting?
 
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Waidmannsheil
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Olaf
 
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Grattis med �lgen.

You said Alaska bullet performance wasn't that good. I experienced the same when I used them.
They do get a good wound channel, but the don't go all the way through in most cases. Do they..??!
I used RWS TUG for a couple of moose they do what the Alaska do but the back end stay whole (like nosler) and they tend to be kinder on the meat.
Of course..Me being a dane shouldn't try to tell you anything on what to use on moose, I know.
But I shoot a Tikka 512 9,3x74R myself and so far I've had the best results with TUG. Just thought I'd tell about it.
I'm trying either Woodleigh 320 grs or ditto 286 grs. this year. One of my swedish hunting buddies uses the 320 grs and has had good expieriences with it.

god jakt [Razz]
Niels
 
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rockhead
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Congratulations

you will be feasting on moose before I will

looking forward to the picts

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Posts: 562 | Location: Northern Wisconsin, USA | Registered: 22 May 2002Reply With Quote
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Friends,

Your opinions please. I will be visiting Seden in a few weeks for a Moose hunt. Options as regards rifle are a .375hh (blued) or 30'06 (stainless). Tend towards using Nosler partitions!

What would you take - I shoot either calibre accurately, having had both for some years. I tend toward the 30'06 if only because its a stainless/synthetic and my experience of Sweden has been WET! :0)

MIS - congratulations on the first bull of the season!

IanF
 
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Originally posted by Niels:
Grattis med �lgen.

You said Alaska bullet performance wasn't that good. I experienced the same when I used them.
They do get a good wound channel, but the don't go all the way through in most cases. Do they..??!
I used RWS TUG for a couple of moose they do what the Alaska do but the back end stay whole (like nosler) and they tend to be kinder on the meat.
Of course..Me being a dane shouldn't try to tell you anything on what to use on moose, I know.
But I shoot a Tikka 512 9,3x74R myself and so far I've had the best results with TUG. Just thought I'd tell about it.
I'm trying either Woodleigh 320 grs or ditto 286 grs. this year. One of my swedish hunting buddies uses the 320 grs and has had good expieriences with it.

god jakt [Razz]
Niels
I have had problems with penetration with the Alaska, but if you do a lungshot it�s a very good bullet. Since most moose are shot through the lungs I considder it a very good bullet as long as the task doesn�t involve capping off a large bull through the shoulders...
...I have shot the TUG on large moose too, It leaves a small woundchannel, the animals tend to run a little longer, but penetration is sufficient for spines and shoulders. However I was discouraged by the TUG�s performance last year when I shot a small bull through the head twice before he went down. The first shot was a little bit in front of the brain, but if it had been an Alaska it wound have taken out the brain.
...I guess its a question of what you use it for and where you plan to shoot. Head and lungs = Alaska, shoulders and quartering shots = TUG...
...I guess the new 286gr Oryx will be a nice compromise between the two!
Good luck in future hunts!
/Peter
 
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Friends,

Your opinions please. I will be visiting Seden in a few weeks for a Moose hunt. Options as regards rifle are a .375hh (blued) or 30'06 (stainless). Tend towards using Nosler partitions!

What would you take - I shoot either calibre accurately, having had both for some years. I tend toward the 30'06 if only because its a stainless/synthetic and my experience of Sweden has been WET! :0)

MIS - congratulations on the first bull of the season!

IanF
Thanks!
I guess I would go with the stainless -06! The 30-06 is sufficient to whack any Swedish moose with authority. And as you say Sweden can be wet this time of year. Another thing to considder is the fact that you probably can borrow ammo from huntingpals as the -06 is quite common in Swedish huntingcamps, wich is not the case with the 375 H&H.
 
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Originally posted by Tombo21:
Congrats! Where were you hunting?
Thanks!!
I hunt in the woods around Bredbyn, a small village ouside the town �rnsk�ldsvik (Eagleshield bay!!)If you look at the swedish map and place your finger in the middle of Sweden along the eastcoast you�ll find it.
 
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check out this pic!!!

http://medlem.spray.se/sundelinibredbyn/

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Now I know it is possible to get buck (or should that be bull) fever at a keyboard.

Nice animals just hope you all leave one for me on the 14th October.
 
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Nice moose MIS! I've got a couple of friends coming up from Nebraska in November to go chase Bullwinkle around for a week or so. Hopefully we'll find them a couple of your moose's Canadian cousins. Again, congratulations. - Dan
 
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Thanks guys!

Dan!
Hope you get the canadian cousin!! It�s bound to be bigger !! and with a larger rack!!

1894!
Sure ! there�s plenty of moose right now!! If we had more licenses we would have shot more of them!!

Take care, and good luck!!
/Peter
 
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Just got an e-mail from my buddies in Umea. Their season has started off great also. They hunt up near Amsele in Vasterbotten. Seems a good season is in the offing. I wish I coulda made the trip this year. Damn damn double damn!
 
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MiS,

Here's your photo. Great job!!

-Steve

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Thanks Steve!!
 
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