I do not doubt, for a minute, that the .270 is
"OK" for
specific shots on moose.
Someone in an earlier post said it was good for this 98% of the time...
Someone else posted a very good set of moose pictures and added a very good set of reasons NOT to use a .270 on moose.
It is important to "agree" on what defines
"OK"...
A complement to the people who "live there" and take moose all the time with .270...
A curse on those who wound moose and elk and never find them...
These, last, are not likely to call attention to themselves and post here that they have merely damaged a few moose in their lifetime.
There is no telling how many wounded or "slow kills" were directly caused by not using enough gun...
The
ONLY thing that consoles me... is that modern bullet construction has, theoretically, diminished that "imaginary number".
ONLY, as I have said before, the most
disciplined and finest marksmen, in the best of conditions, should consider using a .270 on moose.
I stated in another thread that I saw a good shot, in the chest, at 100 yards, on a bull elk... the bull ran over 300 yards and it took a search party of about 50 hunters to locate it! That was shot with a .308 Win using a Nosler Partition bullet... and looking at the hit on the dead animal proved it to be well-placed!
If you wound, or slow-kill, any game animal due to not enough gun...
It is unacceptable.
I simply do not trust the average forum reader to excercise restraint when the conditions aren't right.
If you are reading this post, please take another
look at the whole thread...