re: How to stop a moose attack like a boss

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Wildlife and people use the same paths and are gonna cross. He may not have made all the right choices, I don't know but I can't blame him for popping the thing when it turned for round 3.

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At that point, yeah, but he shouldn't have moved closer to the Moose. I would have instantly stopped, hope the Moose went off the trail, and yell at it if it came any closer. I sure as frick wouldn't deliberately get closer to it.

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At that point, yeah, but he shouldn't have moved closer to the Moose. I would have instantly stopped, hope the Moose went off the trail,

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That isn't happening. Moose (and bear) use the same trails people use. They dislike walking through deep snow as much as people do. Once they find a trail, it's theirs.

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and yell at it if it came any closer. I sure as frick wouldn't deliberately get closer to it.

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He probably thought he would nudge it along. Bad mistake on his part. We don't always make great choices under stress. I know I don't have a perfect track record.

Once the moose turned the third time, he did the right thing.

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He didn't need to shoot it.

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At that point, he needed to for sure. He just shouldn't have provoked the Moose. Like a previous poster said, he wouldn't have done that with a Grizzly, and Moose can be as dangerous as they are.

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Real boss like leaving it to die over the next couple of hours/day

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Finally, someone comes in that knows what happened after the video shuts off. Let's hear it.

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the frick?

I'm a hunter and a "sportsman" and that video pisses me off

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I agree. How can you watch how that went down and not be mad about it. Senseless.

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I guarantee there was at least on person who posted disgust by this video, who wakes up at 4am, all giddy, puts on his gear, grabs his weapon, heads to the woods, hides in wait for an animal going on about its day, shoots that animal, and then brags about it.

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really?

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the frick?

I'm a hunter and a "sportsman" and that video pisses me off


I agree. How can you watch how that went down and not be mad about it. Senseless.

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There it is.

It would have been cool if he went looking for the animal, or better, hid and waited for it, and then shot it? But defending himself from an attacking animal is crossing the line? Wow.

And I have nothing against hunting, and go out on a rare occasion. Even with the small number of animals I have killed, I would feel like a pretty big hypocrite for being upset at this video.

I thought it was clear that he was making noises to get it to move away from the path, and then enhanced the noises when the moose approached, and then finally defended himself after being struck and seeing the moose turn back around.

And you really have no idea if he left it.

And yet, without full knowledge, a person who kills animals for sport, immediately sides with the animal in the video. Sorry, bud, that doesn't settle. You aren't surviving off the food you kill, so killing animals is purely a hobby with the added benefit of good eats. Spare me the bleeding heart.

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for the purpose of consuming the animal, yes

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Not to be the contrarian, but deer meat isn't the purpose of going hunting. It's a nice byproduct, but it's not the purpose.

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you mean agitating an animal until it attacks then killing it, yes

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I'm struggling to find a big difference that makes one terrible and one admirable. Two animals were killed. One was shot in self-defense after it was agitated (if you view it in the most negative light). The other was shot after it had been baited/fed for an entire year.