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Holy crap that's a big moose

I'm all for hunting for meat...but I'm anti-trophy hunting.

As long as you're going to eat what you kill...fine. If it's just for the bragging rights, no.
I'm not familiar enough with the guy to know which one he is...

I've never been a big fan of killing moose. Their numbers are dwindling in most places...and lots of people don't eat the meat.
 
BoomerD said:
I'm all for hunting for meat...but I'm anti-trophy hunting.

As long as you're going to eat what you kill...fine. If it's just for the bragging rights, no.
I'm not familiar enough with the guy to know which one he is...

I've never been a big fan of killing moose. Their numbers are dwindling in most places...and lots of people don't eat the meat.
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part of me wants to root for the moose to just plow the guy down, but damn, if your going to take down a big animal like that I have tons of respect for people doing it with a bow and arrow.

The trophy killing I can't stand are the ranch style ones where you are 800yds from your prey and you just pop it off with a .50 cal rifle
 
The part that bothers me is how close he is to the moose and yet, his shot allows the moose to charge off 20 or 30 yards before going down. That's just sloppy or lack of knowledge regarding anatomy.
 
WTF? It looks like he shot it in the gut. Did they even retrieve it?

I dunno. I've relaxed on my views of hunting a lot and support it as long as you're eating the meat at least, but this just seems unsavory.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
The part that bothers me is how close he is to the moose and yet, his shot allows the moose to charge off 20 or 30 yards before going down. That's just sloppy or lack of knowledge regarding anatomy.
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A perfect shot from point blank range will not bring down an animal that size instantly. Most amazing shot I've seen I think was eventually aired on the Outdoor Channel. Keith Mark - guy from MacMillan River Adventures - was after a HUGE moose. The cameraman for was instructed by the producer to not have him take the shot unless the cameraman had a good angle. The moose was within 20 yards. The cameraman stepped to the right to get a better angle, the moose charged. Shawn shot the charging moose with his bow at a distance of only a couple of feet [edit: 2 yards]. That takes some balls to hold your ground when a couple thousand pounds are barreling toward you, intending to trample you.

edit: 11 feet tall from tip of antler to the ground, 1800 pounds. BIG moose. And I saw one place claim a distance of under 30 inches. No video online though 🙁
 
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The intent of hunting is not to feed people, it's to keep animal populations under control. That's to protect the overall population and also humans. So cry more.
 
what the fuck is this shit?

hope that piece of shit gets trampled to death for poking a stick into a wild animal's fucking stomach for no good reason. i hope some crackhead 'hunts' this guy in a dark alley with a sharpened screwdriver.

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part of me wants to root for the moose to just plow the guy down, but damn, if your going to take down a big animal like that I have tons of respect for people doing it with a bow and arrow.
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yeah i have tons of respect for people who refuse to kill an animal cleanly because it's not amusing enough.
 
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Nintendesert said:
The intent of hunting is not to feed people, it's to keep animal populations under control. That's to protect the overall population and also humans. So cry more.
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Oh, I'm all for population control.

We're so overrun with whitetail here that it should be legal to hunt both sexes year-round. It would be far more humane to shoot them than to let them starve to death.
 
oh, and to the 'purist' bow-hunters:

congrats, you're still a pussy. come back when you don't need compound pulley action to slowly kill an animal for no reason. i'll give you props when you start making your kills with spears and knives. and actually eating it.

oh, and one more thing to address the 'lol why r u nubz watching huntin videos if you hate huntin?!?!' comments-

people aren't comdemning hunting, they're condemning you for NOT KNOWING HOW TO HUNT. this is essentially trapping, except in this case the human life is probably worth less than a trap.
 
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That wasn't "slowly kill an animal." You must think that animals and people die like in the movies - the bullet or arrow hits, and they drop over dead.
 
BoomerD said:
I'm all for hunting for meat...but I'm anti-trophy hunting.

As long as you're going to eat what you kill...fine. If it's just for the bragging rights, no.
I'm not familiar enough with the guy to know which one he is...

I've never been a big fan of killing moose. Their numbers are dwindling in most places...and lots of people don't eat the meat.
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Those people should send the moose to me. It make my mouth water thinking about moose meat, and sausage.
 
DrPizza said:
A perfect shot from point blank range will not bring down an animal that size instantly. Most amazing shot I've seen I think was eventually aired on the Outdoor Channel. Keith Mark - guy from MacMillan River Adventures - was after a HUGE moose. The cameraman for was instructed by the producer to not have him take the shot unless the cameraman had a good angle. The moose was within 20 yards. The cameraman stepped to the right to get a better angle, the moose charged. Shawn shot the charging moose with his bow at a distance of only a couple of feet [edit: 2 yards]. That takes some balls to hold your ground when a couple thousand pounds are barreling toward you, intending to trample you.
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This is true too. I once went camping on Isle Royale and got up early to take some moose pictures. Armed with my trusty "Brownie" I secluded myself in a thicket just off a game trail. PSA, never get between a moose and his morning drink of water.

Kinda like a 1500 lb buddy with the worst hangover you've ever seen. I was fine up to the point where he heard the 'click.' Fortunately? It had rained the night before and in my efforts to translocate myself to somewhere else, I tripped and slid down the game trail ala Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone. I was never sure if the moose had better sense than to follow or was unable to due to laughter. In either case, I emerged muddy but, victorious with a shot of his nose and steam rising from it.
 
DrPizza said:
That wasn't "slowly kill an animal." You must think that animals and people die like in the movies - the bullet or arrow hits, and they drop over dead.
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uh, if you shoot it in the appropriate place with an appropriate weapon, yeah, it's just like 'the movies;' in the movies, when someone is shot in the head or chest with a large caliber weapon, they die.

if the cousinfucker in the OP wasn't so concerned with hanging its head on his wall to compensate for his little dick, he could've just shot the goddamn thing in the head with a high caliber rifle for wherever the hell he wanted.

i mean, technically, he could've. he obviously wouldn't have since he missed with a bow at like three feet.
 
uh, yeah, he missed.

i'm no moose anatomy expert, but the best he did was hit it in the liver. not even close to the heart or lungs.

also cool how mods can tell people to STFU as much as they want, the rest of us get warnings.

close your brainbucket, your lime jello will fall out.


YHPM

ATOT Moderator ElFenix
 
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it wasn't a "clean kill" like in avatar. you have to say a prayer while stabbing it in the heart with a dagger
 
brblx said:
oh, and to the 'purist' bow-hunters:

congrats, you're still a pussy. come back when you don't need compound pulley action to slowly kill an animal for no reason. i'll give you props when you start making your kills with spears and knives. and actually eating it.

oh, and one more thing to address the 'lol why r u nubz watching huntin videos if you hate huntin?!?!' comments-

people aren't comdemning hunting, they're condemning you for NOT KNOWING HOW TO HUNT. this is essentially trapping, except in this case the human life is probably worth less than a trap.
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anybody who uses a compound bow shouldn't be using a bow in the first place, just get a gun instead you obviously don't have the muscles for using a proper bow.
 
brblx said:
uh, if you shoot it in the appropriate place with an appropriate weapon, yeah, it's just like 'the movies;' in the movies, when someone is shot in the head or chest with a large caliber weapon, they die.

if the cousinfucker in the OP wasn't so concerned with hanging its head on his wall to compensate for his little dick, he could've just shot the goddamn thing in the head with a high caliber rifle for wherever the hell he wanted.

i mean, technically, he could've. he obviously wouldn't have since he missed with a bow at like three feet.
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You really don't know much about hunting or weapons. I used to hunt and you never try to take a head shot. Animal skulls are thick and projectiles, whether bullets or arrows, do unpredictable things when the strike hard surfaces. There's not much brain matter up there, (you should be able to relate) so if your bullet or arrow managed to penetrate the skull it's still no guarantee that it would be a "clean kill" .

If you look closely at the vid his arrow placement is right behind the should blades, just where it should be to puncture the lungs and maybe the heart. It's not uncommon for an animal to run several hundred yards after being hit with a fatal heart/lung shot, in fact most do.

I don't hunt anymore, I don't enjoy it, but I understand why people do. A lot of friends enjoy game meat and it helps stretch the food budget. Also with the elimination of most of the game animals natural predators it helps control the population.
 
Can you even get a broadhead into the chest cavity of a moose that size with any reliability? Did he aim behind the ribs on purpose?
 
That was definitly a heart lung shot. Watch it in slow motion. Just behind the shoulder. Of course when the moose stretches out to run it makes the arrow look like it is lower. I would say it was a good kill.

See this link for all you /anatomy experts.
http://www.mooseheaven.com/best-kill-shot-for-moose.htm

The chance of getting an arrow into the heart ( as it would is behind the leg bone ) is very very small. Any further forward towards the front you will probably hit the shoulder blade. His shot pegged it right in the lungs. With a good arrow head this big old moose would probably bleed out fast and drop within 50 yards or so.

All you pussies that are upset by this should stick to the supermarket. Where you can get veal that was bludgened to death.

Or stick to your curds and whey.
 
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