Trophy Moose Shot At Brainard Lake

[Gman]

C'mon guys, get with the program. We should buy our meat at the grocery store where it's made, and no animals are harmed.



Sent from my electronic leash.

[CO Hugh]

Happiness is a big gutpile!!

[sniper7]

Happiness is a big gutpile!!

A nice gut pile right near the camp hostesses campsite would be beautiful! Maybe they could see some beautiful wildlife...like magpies and coyotes!

[TRnCO]

mmmm, love me some moose meat, but mine came from the Yukon.....but good on the guy for makin' a clean killing shot. Just imagine the outrage if the critter had needed another shot, or two to finish it off..

[Gman]

Maybe they could see some beautiful wildlife...like magpies and coyotes!

...and bears.

Oh, my.

[sniper7]

...and bears.

Oh, my.

Whatever will goldilocks and carpetlicks do?

[Limited GM]

A lot of win in this thread.

In Yellowstone a few yrs ago, I showed up right as some wolves had been scared off from a soon to be kill. This left a cow elk walking around half hamstrung and with its intestines hanging out. Nature is a harsh bitch, no way around it. I asked if "someone" could go down there and 10mm the cow, putting her out of her misery and was told absolutely not. That bothered me much more than the story above.

In the grand scheme of things, we might all hope for a clean kill.

[Gman]

I had read of a similar situation in Yellowstone (I thought it was in National Geographic, but can't remember) where a moose had its lower jaw hanging like a beard. The wolves were just waiting for the animal to slowly die. A group of 'nature lovers' asked the park ranger to put the moose out of its misery. The ranger responded that they weren't allowed to interfere with the workings of nature. Nature is a cold-hearted bitch that sometimes looks like this;

[fitz19d]

Reminds me of that cow video where top half of head ripped off by train. Was looking around even though it only had ears and no face. Brain seemed gone but musta had some stem or bigger chunks left in the gore.

One that bothered me a bit is theres a video from yellowstone of a moose that fell or otherwise got hit by geysure. 3rd degree burns over 100% of the thing and its getting chased down the road by 2 bears. Actually escapes and died later.

[hollohas]

Good hunt. A CO bull moose is a lifetime hunt. If I ever get a moose tag, and find a moose, I won't care who's standing around to see it because that maybe the one and only opportunity I'll ever get.

That's a $250 tag for a resident. And to get the preference points you have to basically loan the DOW $250 for a few months every year for a decade or more. You can't just walk out and shoot a moose whenever you want. It takes many, many, many years of planning. Glad that guy was successful.