[Skybird]

I checked your stats and saw that your tracking skill for moose still is level 1. That means your tracker's radar horizon, your viewing range, still is very short, making tracking wounded animals difficult.

You use the Anschütz 8x57IS, also at level 1 still- That rifle is good enough to drop big game animals, but at level 1 it still has lots of movement in the sight and thus a not ideally placed shot is more possible, explaining the maybe just light wounding of the moose.

Shoot everything that moves, every hit helps to boost your shooting skill with that rifle. Log every track you stumble over, to boost tracking skills as well. With skill levels come more information from the track, and greater viewing range.