"Moose are often not impressed no matter what they are hit with. They usually don't go far after a good hit but seldom drop at the shot. I have seen them well hit with 300 and 338 Win Mags without showing any signs of being hit."

From what I have seen, and heard from other hunters, this is the truth of the matter conerning moose. For example, I once knew a hunter in New Mexico who had been born and raised in Canada, where he hunted moose for many years with a pump-action rifle in .30 Remington caliber. That round has almost exactly the same ballistics as the .30/30. He used a 170-grain factory load. He had a favorite stump about 50 yards back in the brush from a logging road that the moose used. He would sit on the stump and wait for a moose to pass by, at which time he'd shoot it about halfway up the side, right behind the shoulder. One 170-grain bullet. Then he'd take out his pipe, fill it up, and sit there smoking for about half an hour or 45 minutes. Then he'd go after the moose, none of which ever went much over 50 yards from where they were shot. He never lost a moose, and said that most of them just walked off after the shot, rather than running. None ever dropped on the spot, either.