Moose attacks snowmobile rider and gets shot

#26
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Shot a Angus bull in a similar situation once. It was not pleasant but it was justified. He had pinned my cousin and had successfully managed to wear off the dogs we were using to distract him. It was a no win situation. Wouldn't have put it on the web. Of course, this was long before camera phones and GoPro.
 
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There's not much he could have done other than wait. Couldn't go in reverse. The snow looks pretty deep so he can't detour. I have no issue with what he did.
 
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utvolpj said:
more than 10sec IMO
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We'll just have to agree to disagree. I don't think he acted irresponsibly. He left a approximately 100 yards between him and the moose the first time he stopped and he could not make a determination as to it's demeanor from that distance. My guess is he thought the moose would move along when he approached with the snow machine. He appears to stop (at about half the distance) when the moose starts his direction. He screams, claps his hands in an attempt to scare the animal away. The moose continues to come his way. The moose charges once and all he does is clap again and yell at the animal. All this time he never pulls his gun which is showing that he wasn't out to kill the animal. Only after the animal charges and actually attack him does he pull his weapon and he has to chamber a round again showing he wasn't on a hunting trip. He doesn't fire again until the animal appears to be turning to make another charge.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
Don't people hunt moose? Why don't we give people who hunt deer a bunch of bs? At least this guy was in real danger, unlike some joker in a tree stand.
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I agree. I don't comment on hunting much because hunters get pissed. My best friends hunt. I don't get it. Can't do it. Don't mind guys that do and its necessary oftentimes.
That said, I don't think I'd have a problem pulling the trigger there. Getting off the snowmobile and running away while screaming and flailing in the snow in the trees doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Sounds like potential death or mauling either way, so when the thing didn't run away for good and turned, I don't know that you wait to fire as it is charging again.
 
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After watching again. I believe his first shot was actually a warning. He claps and yells get before having to fire again.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
I agree. I don't comment on hunting much because hunters get pissed. My best friends hunt. I don't get it. Can't do it. Don't mind guys that do and its necessary oftentimes.
That said, I don't think I'd have a problem pulling the trigger there. Getting off the snowmobile and running away while screaming and flailing in the snow in the trees doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Sounds like potential death or mauling either way, so when the thing didn't run away for good and turned, I don't know that you wait to fire as it is charging again.
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Yeah, I don't get hunting either. Love fishing though, probably hypocritical.

Dude did the smart thing. I still think the video evidence robbed him of a great old man tall tale. You ever seen proof of that huge fish you grandaddy caught? Actually a guppy.
 
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Nerd-Vol said:
Yeah, I don't get hunting either. Love fishing though, probably hypocritical.

Dude did the smart thing. I still think the video evidence robbed him of a great old man tall tale. You ever seen proof of that huge fish you grandaddy caught? Actually a guppy.
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quick story:

I and my son's take a walk in the woods behind where I live sometimes. I had a samurai sword to cut thorns, etc and in case there were snakes.
We went around this tree, my middle kid whispers "dad", and a 10 pt buck was staring straight at us from @ 8 feet away. We all just stopped. I thought, "please God don't let this thing come and end us right here", which was immediately followed by, "come on mf'er. If I walk outta here with a 10 pt on the end of a samurai sword somehow, my kids will always think I'm the baddest dude around."
Then thankfully he just pranced away and my little one asks me why there are reindeer behind the house.
 
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Spartacavolus said:
I agree. I don't comment on hunting much because hunters get pissed. My best friends hunt. I don't get it. Can't do it. Don't mind guys that do and its necessary oftentimes.
That said, I don't think I'd have a problem pulling the trigger there. Getting off the snowmobile and running away while screaming and flailing in the snow in the trees doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Sounds like potential death or mauling either way, so when the thing didn't run away for good and turned, I don't know that you wait to fire as it is charging again.
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I hunt to fill the freezer

I won't hunt anything I won't eat. Nothing pisses me off more than a poacher who shoots a deer for its horns and leaves it laying. I want to slap the dog piss out of them
 
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I'm confused about any relationship this would have to hunting. Hunting is highly regulated and killing any animal considered a "game" animal out of season and without proper license is flat out illegal. Moose very much fall under this definition. I'd wager the filming of this and his clear attempts NOT to shoot the animal just because he could might very well have saved him all manner of legal issues.
 
#43
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He probably could have waited longer to see if the moose would have strolled on, but that may or may not have made any difference. It appears as though his first shot might have been a warning shot but then not only was the moose not deterred by the shot but it proceeded to turn around and was clearly coming back for more, so he was either going to shoot or get attacked again.

I have questions though. I'd like to know why his camera lens is already cracked? It could have been anything that cracked it for sure, but you wonder if this maybe isn't their first encounter with that moose. Also, that wasn't a fresh snowmobile track as you can clearly see he or someone else had been through there recently.

I don't know much about moose but did that one seem to be acting strange from the beginning? It seems he was literally standing right in the center of the track as if to block the next snowmobile rider from going through. There was no young moose in the video that we could see that it might have been protecting.
 
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he should have stopped and waited to see what the moose was going to do,the little move forward was considered a charge by the moose,and that was what set events off as they went,of course he may have been out poaching moose too,did he butcher it and take it back home is the question
 
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Some of y'all have never spent any time in the woods. These animals are not cute and cuddly like you see on tv.

They will kill you.
 
#49
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I spent a summer in Yellowstone. Hiked close to 300 miles. One thing you learn out there is Bison and Moose have the right of way. If you cant detour, you wait.
 
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