Darwin Award almost awarded here:
“I don’t think was three feet from me, because he wasn’t six feet from me when I shot him.”
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Not sure I’d say this is an “almost” Darwin Award. While it’s undoubtably safer to do bow hunting from a platform in a tree, the intent was sound enough. An arrow can kill a moose (“elk” in Europe). A six foot distance and waiting for a clear shot seems a realistic attempt to kill with one shot. It is, after all, the manner a lot of hunters used before the invention of a reliable gun, and the modern bow packs a lot more power than the ones our ancestors used. It does look like the hunter used a tree to duck behind as protection when the moose charged. The real question is if the moose was later tracked down and dispatched or if it was left to wander off injured, which would make it a lot more dangerous to anyone else it encountered. Now maybe if they had a dog to track down the blood trail……
These guys aren’t cavemen or hunter-gatherers by trade. They are Western hunters who hardly have the skill to deal with an animal this close in.
3 feet is too close. With antlers like that, a moose doesn’t need to be that much closer to kill you.
Antlers nothing, the legs reach that far.
One of the most underrated animals in terms of its danger to humans is the moose.
People worry about wolves getting their children, but their children are much more likely to be killed by a moose.
They don’t even need to total a car with antlers.
I’m not saying these two were competent. Nor would I consider bowhunting on foot to be a sport I’d do, but it does look like getting this close isn’t all that unusual — http://bowsite.com/bowsite/features/articles/akmoose/ shoot at 20 yards (60′).
http://www.bowhuntingtips.org/bowhunting_moose/bowhunting_moose.html – mention of shooting at 15 yards (45′) and several videos here, http://www.bowhunting.tv/bowhuntingvids.cfm?animal=15
(including “big newfy moose”) look like the shot was taken at pretty close range. No, it isn’t necessary to use a bow (although a modern compound bow is pretty powerful) as opposed to a gun, but some do feel it is a more “equal” type of hunting. — to each their own.
A lot of folk seem to be unaware of how dangerous “herbivores” are — in herding, I’ve seen a lot of people take stupid chances with domestic sheep and cattle, let alone wild animals that haven’t been selected to be more docile.
The custom is to wait a while for the moose to find a place to bed down and die; if you go out searching for it too early it will often get up from the place where it would’ve stopped and died and then it is more likely to be lost. After an accurate kill shot like that the best thing is to sit still a bit, then you’ll be more likely to find the body close by. Its illegal in alberta to use dogs while hunting except for mountain lion and bear, I’m not sure about cold tracking with dogs but I expect it would be difficult to talk your way out of if the fish and wildlife officer happened on the scene.