Well, my daughter agreed with the majority here. I didn't show her the results until she had already made her final decision. The moose hunt was everything you would dream of in a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Although it was not easy to find moose everywhere, there were plenty to keep it interesting and fun. Keying in on the waterways, marshes, etc, we got to experience the best of fall in the Wasatch mountains. When we finally saw the bull that my daughter wanted, he was feeding with a cow and smaller bull on the marshy banks of a beaver pond. We were able to sneak up in the timber directly across the water from him. By the time we got set up, the cow was already chest deep in the water and the bull was right on the bank standing in willows that covered the lower half of him. At 120 yards, I was confident my daughter could place the bullet within a half inch of where she wanted so I told her to take a high shoulder shot with the bull quartering slightly toward us. At the bark of the shot, the bull fell forward splashing into the water! He struggled to get up and she put another shot just behind the shoulder putting him down for good. The first shot hit just in front of the onside shoulder angling up and exiting just under the spine behind the offside shoulder. When we got around to him, he was 10 feet from the bank floating with just a bit of him showing above the surface. I stripped down to my skivvies and jumped in to pull him over to the bank before he sank. A bit chilly at 0745 with frost on the ground but well worth it and a fun cliché-type twist to a moose hunt. Both Barnes bullets passed completely through destroying the vitals and damaging very little meat. Exit holes were about the size of a nickel. The bull appears to be young but had a very big body. Definitely the biggest animal I have every dealt with on the ground, let alone in the water!-------SS
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