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What gun/caliber used to kill moose at the Iditarod

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When I worked in the Alaskan bush the 223, 30-30, 30-06, 300 Win or WBY mag were probably the most common rifle cartridges, with a smattering of all the other. For handgun cartridges, the 44 mag and 10mm were the most popular. I carried a Sako AV 375 H&H and 3" 629-1.
 
From the the CBS link:

...Another Iditarod participant, Jessie Holmes, told the Iditarod Insider he mushed through the same section of the course ahead of Seavey and stated he saw an angry moose, which could've been the same one Seavey was forced to kill.

"I had to punch a moose in the nose out there," Holmes said. "Oh, my gosh."...

Tough guys and gals, those mushers...
 
Onomea said:
From the the CBS link:

...Another Iditarod participant, Jessie Holmes, told the Iditarod Insider he mushed through the same section of the course ahead of Seavey and stated he saw an angry moose, which could've been the same one Seavey was forced to kill.

"I had to punch a moose in the nose out there," Holmes said. "Oh, my gosh."...

Tough guys and gals, those mushers...
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Sounds like they are planing a sequel to Conan the Barbarian (Alaskan Version):D
 
Moose Gun?

Dallas Seavey is the Iditarod contestant that was involved in the moose shooting incident. This article is from Guns & Ammo Magazine entitled "Guns of the Iditarod". He states that he carries a 2" Taurus 605SS2 .357 magnum. It may, or may not be the gun he used to dispatch the moose.
 

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Lived in Alaska for 15 years. All the hunting guides carried a Remington 870 with slugs and people fishing carried a ruger redhawk 44 mag in a shoulder holster. Normally a 5-1/2” barrel. I still have mine.
 
I short 870 with slugs is a very tough handy package.
 
3S16 said:
Dallas Seavey is the Iditarod contestant that was involved in the moose shooting incident. This article is from Guns & Ammo Magazine entitled "Guns of the Iditarod". He states that he carries a 2" Taurus 605SS2 .357 magnum. It may, or may not be the gun he used to dispatch the moose.
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Good (or lucky) shot to take out a moose with a short barrelled .357 Magnum

The Taurus website shows this:
Taurus 605

IMHO, a full power .357 Magnum shot from this gun would be quite a handful
 
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I don't think the shot was all that difficult. The moose was "entangled" with the dogs. The couple of mushers that came behind him and ran over the moose with their sleds said it was right in the trail. The shot was probably measured in feet, not yards.
 
He got penalized 2 hours......

The rules say that you have to gut any game animal and report it at the next stop so that the meat can be used. Anybody coming up on you has to stop and help and can't leave until the first musher does. He had a big lead and the people that came after him didn't know the moose was there. The race officials went to retrieve the moose and weren't happy with the gut job and added two hours to his time. I suppose the moral is, if you kill it, you might as well do a decent dressing job because it will probably cost you more time than if you did a slop job. I hope the meat was still good. At least the rules don't state that you have to mush the carcass up to the next checkpoint. If I killed a moose I think I'd kill a squirrel or something small and tote that to the checkpoint and explain that I had to kill the squirrel because it attacked the moose, but I was too late. They probably have trail cameras out there now:D
 
3S16 said:
Dallas Seavey is the Iditarod contestant that was involved in the moose shooting incident. This article is from Guns & Ammo Magazine entitled "Guns of the Iditarod". He states that he carries a 2" Taurus 605SS2 .357 magnum. It may, or may not be the gun he used to dispatch the moose.
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I so hope this turns out to be the case. We can have 500 pages of Taurus hate ... :D
 
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