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In this dramatic video, a snowmobiler is traveling along a remote snowmobile trail. A moose is blocking the trail, and the snowmobiler does everything they can to defuse the situation without bloodshed. They make considerable noise to warn the moose that they are there. Snowmobiles do not have a reverse, and the track is narrow and hemmed in by thick woods. To get off the snowmobile would make the snowmobiler much more vulnerable. In the deep, fluffy snow, he and or his machine are likely to bog down. Unknown to the viewer, another snowmobiler is coming up from behind and could easily come under attack if the first snowmobiler allows the moose to kill or disable them.
The snowmobiler gets a little closer to get the moose to move away. The moose does a false charge, to be met with more shouts and noise from the snowmobiler trying to defuse the situation. The false charge turns into a very short retreat, immediately followed by a full on attack. The snowmobiler escapes serious injury or death by sheer luck. The moose retreats a short ways, and the snowmobiler uses this reprieve to draw a Glock pistol and chamber a round.
The moose starts to attack again and the snowmobiler uses his last possibility to defuse the situation, a warning shot. It does not work, and the snowmobiler fires three well aimed shots, that almost instantly put down the threatening animal. A fourth finishing shot is fired to make sure. All shots, from warning to finishing, take place in four seconds. (:51 to :55) on the video. The time from the physical contact of the attack to the last shot is 10 seconds.
The snowmobiler then rides by to a meadow, where they stop and look back to make sure that the following snowmobiler was able to safely catch up to them.
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The person on the snowmachine is a true dirtbag. Moose, if shot, to be used for food. Up here in Ak it is called subsistence. The machinr an is a complete jerk. There was a way out with out sans killing. At least skin it & use for meat. It was a calf btw. Nothing to be proud of here.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, he wasn't out hunting. If you start skinning cleaning, I'm sure he would have been fined and jailed for illegal hunting (season if there is one, illegal hunting caliber, ect.) THINK! It is pretty clear, he was out riding. A moose thought he was challenging him, the moose attacked once. The moose charged again for an attack and he fired a warning shot. The moose didn't respond favorably, and he shot the moose to stop it. At the end, he shot the moose a few extra times in attempts to quickly end the moose's suffering and got the hell out of the scary situation. I was watching the video online, as were you, and I almost soiled myself when the moose attacked for the second time.
ReplyDeleteOn another forum, a commenter said that the snowmobiler had his young son on the machine behind him.
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