ORIGINAL: MinnFinn
Going through a couple layers of thin sheet metal and upholstery with FMJ doesn't mean it would go through heavy hide very heavy bone and certainly wouldn't do sufficient organ damage to bring such an animal down.
Why do you even suggest something hypothetically? Use the right tool to do the job right in the first place. Don't give the impressionable some crazy ideas to go out and try a foolish stunt and cripple a big game animal.
If you consider this even a little on the hot seat. Sorry man, you earned this one.
He's just curious, you moron! He didn't earn anything from you! And I see no way someone would get encouraged to hunt moose with a .223 when they could have a 30-06!
I would get the '06for my sake, not the animal's, since bull moose could get angry and kill people. If someoneunderestimates a bull moose's killing potential when angered and decides to hunt them with something that will make them mad, I hope they hunt moose with a .223 and get killed!!!! They are theones who "earned it".