[quote]pushharder wrote:
Here’s another story for you:
I have an employee in MT who has been having a problem with a young bull moose these past few months. He lives up in the mountains near Butte. This moose had been charging their horses, running them off their daily hay as well as challenging and even charging the family dog (Lab) who happens to very old and completely blind.
Sooooooooo…the moose shows up again the other night in the horse corral making trouble once again. The Mrs. takes a pellet gun – a pellet gun – pumps it once and shoots the moose so as to run it off.
Moose dies right there on the spot. Within seconds. Doesn’t even take a step. No kidding.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
Killing big cats for “sport” is about as scummy as it gets. [/quote]
agreed. where is the “sport” in that? I don’t get the justification for feeling proud in that shit. you founf an animal then shot it with a gun? Congratulations! you are a true BADASS!!
/sarc
this is going to sound crazy, but how much more badass would it be to find a predatory animal, attack it, and kill it with a weapon like a knife? this would truly give someone a reason to feel badass.
weren’t we able to do this as a species a long time ago?..before bows and arrows?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Here’s another story for you:
I have an employee in MT who has been having a problem with a young bull moose these past few months. He lives up in the mountains near Butte. This moose had been charging their horses, running them off their daily hay as well as challenging and even charging the family dog (Lab) who happens to very old and completely blind.
Sooooooooo…the moose shows up again the other night in the horse corral making trouble once again. The Mrs. takes a pellet gun – a pellet gun – pumps it once and shoots the moose so as to run it off.
Moose dies right there on the spot. Within seconds. Doesn’t even take a step. No kidding.
Uh oh and oh boy.[/quote]
Dafuq??
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Something very similar to this happened on one of the reality shows that follows wildlife enforcement officers. I think the moose made it a few yards before laying down, though.
They were flabbergasted. It was a fairly powerful pellet gun to be honest. Still it musta been a one in a thousand shots that made it straight to the heart/lungs without striking a rib or shoulder.
It was laying there dead with blood running out of its mouth when Fish and Game showed up. Report was filed and I reckon the case may be pending.[/quote]
Something similar happened to a guy I work with, who actually teaches biology, is a very ethical sportsman, and is otherwise a class act. He had one deer permit left, and he shot an adult doe that was traveling with a small herd of deer, but the rifled slug also struck and killed a second button buck. He tagged the adult doe, and then immediately followed the proper protocol and phoned the IL DNR and reported what happened. The CPO still issued a citation for unlawfully taking a deer without the proper permit, and he ended up paying a $300 fine and he had his hunting license suspended.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Here’s another story for you:
I have an employee in MT who has been having a problem with a young bull moose these past few months. He lives up in the mountains near Butte. This moose had been charging their horses, running them off their daily hay as well as challenging and even charging the family dog (Lab) who happens to very old and completely blind.
Sooooooooo…the moose shows up again the other night in the horse corral making trouble once again. The Mrs. takes a pellet gun – a pellet gun – pumps it once and shoots the moose so as to run it off.
Moose dies right there on the spot. Within seconds. Doesn’t even take a step. No kidding.
Uh oh and oh boy.[/quote]
In Montana they call 44 Magnums ‘pellet guns’.
Seriously, there had to be something wrong with that moose.
Rabid wolf chases 2 Labrador families on snowmobile trip
“In an interview via Skype, Michelle Sexton and Jennifer Patey said they were snowmobiling with their husbands and children when the ordeal began. About 20 minutes into the trip, they came upon a wolf in the middle of the trail. The animal began to charge at them, and started attacking the skis on their snowmobiles.”
And the best part:
“The 25-minute hunt ended when one of the wildlife officers ran down and killed the animal with his snowmobile.“As soon as I pulled up next to them, he had driven over the wolf with his snow machine,” said Patey.”
I find it sad that no one in this community can come up with a plan to rid themselves of rabbits. Your local Gamo dealer could probably help you out with that. Good enough for a moose, good enough for a rabbit.