If you missed the newsminer story on this dog musher, she went out friday and bought a 9 mill. Not much better! She says she can't carry a revolver because of the danger of it going off in the sled. She might be knowledgeable about dogs, but she needs help on guns!

Obviously!

If she is carrying it in the sled rather than on her person, I would opt for a carbine! Seriously though, revolvers are generally way safer than semis, (and usually thought of as much safer by the nonknowledgable crowd, also). If you do want to go with a semiauto pistol, there are many superior choices to a 9mm. . . in fact one of the very few Inferior choices would be the 380!

That’s where the Glock 10mm has become so popular it would have made a different outcome

Yes but it appears that her sled is under the moose's feet.

I suspect the 380 is all she could handle.

She may have been better off with a 22mag that she could handle adequately

A 22 mag would have been far superior, that is a deadly caliber. While I wouldn't want to have to, I would be confident in putting down a moose with a 22 mag, not so much with either a 380 or a 9mm.

Shot placement is also critical.... it would seem!

Pete

I have DLP'd two of them.

One was actually in an "entanglement" situation around the nose. But the second one actually left the trail ahead of my machine and circled back.............then charged from my right side. I bailed off and dropped beside the machine as she jumped over me. She managed to tear off the windshield as she passed over. She turned and stood there facing me about 8 feet away.

22LR to the ear ended both of those DRT!!

I contacted AST by radio and they just said salvage and utilize in both instances. Never had to fill out a report.

Just got back from camp and the moose were UPTIGHT. Afraid to look at them wrong. One bull out in the open went far out of his way to come get me and I barely made the trees when he stopped. Snow is deep. They are plowing. I took to carrying the big revolver

Had a big cow in the yard yesterday. She actually looked pretty good.
On the other hand I had a calf here last week that shouldn't have been alone.... but he was. Looked like he was born late. Quite small for last year's calf. I suspect he won't make it