Trophy Moose Shot At Brainard Lake

[buffalobo]

Wonder how offended they would be when they learned how mother nature thins the herd when there is no natural predators?



lobbed from my electronic ball and chain

[TheBelly]

"Hunting is when you go out and sit in the woods and wait for them, or track them or be part of their environment and take them down."

True. That's why this guy was in the woods... you know... where the moose live.

Why were all those other people in the moose's habitat? If they weren't there to hunt, they were there to ruin a hunt. nature watchers? more like obstacles to real wildlife management.

[roberth]

Wonder how offended they would be when they learned how mother nature thins the herd when there is no natural predators?lobbed from my electronic ball and chain

Oh yes, bring logic, reason and natural selection to the forefront, those things are so....antiquated.

[Gman]

Wonder how offended they would be when they learned how mother nature thins the herd when there is no natural predators?

Rational thought, how quaint.

It's all about emotion, not hurting people's precious feelings, and their delicate self-esteem these days.

These ladies should complete a hurt feelings report.

[rockhound]

frickin tree huggers,

1. if he took the meat out as required by DOW then it was not a trophy hunt
2. just because the tree hugger thinks this moose is his pet, doesn't make it so
3. the frickin moose was in the woods, not his back yard, how was this not hunting????
4. i really wish i could prepare the tree hugger's next hamburger from scratch, I mean take the live cow to his back yard and whammy, here's dinner
these people seem the think that everything in the grocery store just appears there.
5. just because the aniumal is wild does not mean that it has rights beyond the legal requirements from the state. what do they think people lived on before grocery stores???
OMG you killed an animal AHHHHHHHHHH
6. so because the animals frequent the area your not supposed to hunt there, guess what, that is the reason to hunt there, go hunt moose in downtown denver, that is more sporting cause your less likely to find one????

[Hummer]

^^^ All of the above. ^^^ And damn, I didn't draw a bull moose tag in area 20 for this fall even with 14 years of preference points.

I've considered if and how I might take a moose near Brainard or other areas where there are a lot of people. It's a tough call and I wouldn't want to be in that hunter's position. The upshot of the "outrage" over how and where the moose was taken is that CPW might close all the Brainard Lake road area to hunting within 1/4 mile of the road, like they did in the Laramie River Valley from Chambers Lake north. Trouble is, that's where the majority of the moose are, in the riparian area where the forage is.

[Hummer]

Oh, and 7News Denver can take their manufactured outrage and controversy and stuff it up their channel!

And, let's examine the disparaging comments by the two (gay) campground chicks. One claimed to hunt and fish. Yea, right, prove it, sweet cheeks. I'll wager she has never hunted in her life, or not since childhood. Clearly, she has no understanding of what hunting is from her comments about trophy hunt, moose being pets, and "that's not hunting". To call it "totally unethical and immoral" is falsehood based on ignorance. I wonder, do they eat meat slaughtered in factories killed by someone else, and do they consider that moral, or would that be totally unethical and immoral? Hypocrisy, anyone?

[sniper7]

They eat bush.

[Hummer]

The terms trophy hunt, trophy hunting and trophy hunter, are often used by anti-hunters to disparage hunters and hunting. The argument succeeds with people ignorant of nature and predation, with the emotionally weak and the intellectually challenged.

The hunter who shot the bull, and let's assume it was a "trophy" animal, i.e., a mature bull, was in fact on a hunt of a lifetime, per the CO wildlife regulations. Nearly all hunters hunt for the meat and to take a larger animal means more meat. Mature male (trophy) bulls are larger than smaller bulls, and they are much, much larger than females (cows). Thus, the "trophy hunter" harvests more meat, which is the principal goal. How is that unethical or immoral?

[sniper7]

Cause the liberals say so! Were just a bunch of stupid hillbillies