|
|
Post by stevein on Sept 10, 2014 9:05:20 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by swilk on Sept 10, 2014 9:23:38 GMT -5
The article says Colorado law states a hunter must be within a certain distance before taking a shot??
Never seen that regulation before.
Other than that....don't make wild critters into perceived pets and this type of thing won't happen.
|
|
|
|
Post by GS1 on Sept 10, 2014 9:28:08 GMT -5
When "wildlife watchers" start to contribute as much to the conservation and management of game animals as hunters do, then I will care about their opinion.
I had a discussion with a couple of bird watchers in muscatatuck several years ago after they asked if I was going to shoot those deer crossing the trail ahead of me with them there. I said no, they're too far. Then my buddy in the woods dropped the 10 pt and I just laughed, I guess they were closer to him.
|
|
|
|
Post by htownhunter on Sept 10, 2014 10:09:48 GMT -5
The article says Colorado law states a hunter must be within a certain distance before taking a shot?? Never seen that regulation before. Other than that....don't make wild critters into perceived pets and this type of thing won't happen. Said 50 feet from the road. The hinter doesn't have to be within 50 feet. |
|
|
|
Post by swilk on Sept 10, 2014 10:22:38 GMT -5
Read it again.
|
|
|
|
Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Sept 10, 2014 10:25:41 GMT -5
I think that must surely be a mistake by the author of the article. I've poured over Colorado regs several times and never once read anything about maximum shooting distances on game... |
|
|
|
Post by swilk on Sept 10, 2014 10:27:53 GMT -5
I agree... I've hunted Colorado several times and I don't remember that being in the regs.
|
|
|
|
Post by Russ Koon on Sept 10, 2014 10:29:39 GMT -5
Sounds like some wildlife watchers are overdue for a trip to the slaughterhouse to view the "ethical and moral" preparation of their McNuggets and Bacon Burgers.
Life as viewed in other venues than Saturday morning animations and Disney movies involves death as a natural result. Morals and ethics may or may not play a role in the occurrence....it will happen anyway.
We as hunters have a moral obligation to make it happen without undue pain and suffering, to the best of our ability. Every hunter I know tries to do that as a normal part of hunting.
Those who do not hunt prefer to "let nature take it's course", which involves hunger and disease being the primary factors in the mortality of the prey species when their populations are uncontrolled, or the introduction and preservation of predators to control the population, primarily by eating the young. I can't say for sure, but I strongly suspect that morality and ethics play a very small part in those predators' considerations as to whether to gobble up the newborns.
If there was a moral or ethical failure involved in the incident, IMO, it would be with the park service allowing the wildlife to become so acclimated to a benign human presence as to set the stage for it. They enjoyed the popularity of the park knowing full well that the zoo-like atmosphere was a major attraction. The interaction between animals conditioned to a benign human presence and humans with other intentions is inevitable as long as such areas exist in close proximity.
The point made about the hunt being a "trophy" hunt is of no value at all. The bunny-huggers would have been equally shocked and dismayed by the reality whether the animal had antlers or not. The comment only plays on the misconceptions of many anti's that the meat from "trophy" animals is routinely wasted. I would think that someone so concerned about morality and ethics would have a higher standard for the use of such misleading tactics in her own speech.
|
|
|
|
Post by dbd870 on Sept 10, 2014 11:02:08 GMT -5
I have no problem with the hunter.
|
|
|
|
Post by Woody Williams on Sept 10, 2014 11:27:36 GMT -5
I have no problem with the hunter. Me neither. It's been a loooonnngg time since I hunts Colorado but road hunting was very prevalent back then. Bow and gun... The main road on the Uncompahgre was very busy back then.. |
|
|
|
Post by 36fan on Sept 10, 2014 12:22:50 GMT -5
"Nothing illegal at all," said Miller. "Totally unethical and immoral."
Well ... it's Colorado. Marijuana is legal and magazines capable of holding more than 10 rnds are not. I don't feel like wasting my time debating legalities, ethics, and morality with them.
Afraid of humans or not, it was still a wild animal.
|
|
|
|
Post by htownhunter on Sept 10, 2014 14:59:29 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by mossberg500 on Sept 10, 2014 18:03:55 GMT -5
That poor little Moose , you meanies , now bow your heads down and start chowing down on a back strap and a side of mashed potatoes
|
|
|
|
Post by kevin1 on Sept 10, 2014 19:18:54 GMT -5
No moose has ever been afraid of any human, armed or otherwise, what a dingbat!
|
|
|
|
Post by htownhunter on Sept 10, 2014 21:14:08 GMT -5
That poor little Moose , you meanies , now bow your heads down and start chowing down on a back strap and a side of mashed potatoes Stop it your making me hungry :-) |
|
|
|
Post by esshup on Sept 11, 2014 10:04:30 GMT -5
There was one line in the article that said that the hunter didn't know the moose was going to run towards the people. So, I'm not sure if he arrowed the moose away from the people, and it ran that way after being stuck, or if the initial shot was in sight of the people.
In any case, moose meat is really, really good, and I think he'll be enjoying that moose for a long while!
|
|
|
|
Post by GS1 on Sept 11, 2014 10:36:02 GMT -5
There was one line in the article that said that the hunter didn't know the moose was going to run towards the people. So, I'm not sure if he arrowed the moose away from the people, and it ran that way after being stuck, or if the initial shot was in sight of the people. In any case, moose meat is really, really good, and I think he'll be enjoying that moose for a long while! There was an article in another paper that said the moose was shot away from the campground and ran into the campground after being shot. |
|
|
|
Post by throbak on Sept 11, 2014 12:30:40 GMT -5
If they had made pets of them the Hunter did them a favor and killed it before it hurt someone during the Rut
|
|
|
|
Post by jackryan on Sept 11, 2014 12:46:23 GMT -5
He's really no different than any of many hunters who would sit along the property lines near town because they know the dumb townies feed deer and shoot a stack of yearling slicks a grown man could tie together and carry all of them at once.. Heck I've seen more than a few guys post up pix of their prizes grinning like the great white Bwana.
|
|
|
|
Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Sept 11, 2014 13:58:31 GMT -5
At lease the slob didn't shoot it with a rifle.  Sounds like a good spot to shoot a moose to me.. easy packout. |
|
