Posted on 03/01/2014 6:25:16 PM PST by marktwain
Not for lack of trying, I have applied for a moose tag several times and wife wants to try this year.
That’s the only thing that would make this killing worthwhile. The moose was still moving when he rode by.
Exactly.
If you read MY post, you will see that you and I are on the same page. I said that it seemed to me that they could have waited, gone a different way, etc. to avoid having to kill the moose, who was in HIS territory minding his own business. I cannot believe that a moose would come up to a noisy vehicle from a long distance away to attack it. It would avoid it.
The snowmobile rider is a jackass and that's putting it mildly.
No responsible hunter or gun owner would shoot and leave such an animal to suffer and die.
I did read your post! We are in agreement. The dude is a douchenozzle.
**As I see the video, the guy stopped, made some noise — and waited a WHOPPING 15 seconds — then decided he didn’t have time for that sort of delay and he just had to bring it to a full confrontation, so he moved up close to the moose.**
The video starts with the moose in plain sight, and the valley clearing not far beyond him. In the first few secs he’s seen completing a tight right aboutface to observe the noise he had probably heard coming for a while. So he certainly wasn’t caught by surprise. It’s possible that the sled driver actually saw him a several seconds before the clip starts.
After watching again, I noticed two left turns previously made into the woods, that maybe had a couple inches of fresh snow in the tracks. So, the can’t turnaround theory doesn’t fly.
The driver stops RIGHT beside one, makes noise immediately (as though the moose hadn’t heard him coming. duh), waited the horribly long 15 seconds, then advanced downhill to the next left turnout, but doesn’t choose to use it either.
My wife (a gun owning constitutionalist, like me) would have said, ‘stop’ at first sight, just for the thrill watching the beast from a distance for a while. With a minute or two of ‘sitting tight’, the big guy possibly would have turned back around and headed down into the clearing. If not, we would have used one of the turnouts.
I know some Mainers who can verify your claim. I guess it's fairly common to see them in Maine, although I never have. I would love to see one.
Oh yeah. And never go into the Maine woods during black fly season...
At 26 secs you can see to the moose’s right where a snow mobile went off the trail. Why I have no idea, just wondering if someone else went there to avoid the moose. I wasn’t there so I cannot say if the guy was right or wrong by shooting the moose.
“The video starts with the moose in plain sight, and the valley clearing not far beyond him. In the first few secs he’s seen completing a tight right aboutface to observe the noise he had probably heard coming for a while. So he certainly wasn’t caught by surprise. It’s possible that the sled driver actually saw him a several seconds before the clip starts.”
We certainly do not know how many minutes of watching the moose was cut out before the video starts.
Most snowmobiles do not have a reverse.(not all lack reverse)
If it was a Ski-doo, it’s possible the moose thought it was cheese.
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