Many years ago me and two friends did a drop hunt. We shot a moose about a 1000 yards from our pickup spot. We were beat just moving it that far. Later in the week we saw a really big bull about three miles from the river. We unloaded our guns and dry fired on it. We knew for one it was going to be brutal and two it would take the rest of the hunt to get it in. Not to mention it was hot. Do not mess around in Alaska or really anywhere. It’s the right thing to do.