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Tiler_J wrote:My thought after watching the video is - yes. I would have shot it at that point.

There are a few questions about the video and the guys decisions before it got to that point but once it started to come at me, again, I would have put it down.

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

Tiler_J wrote:

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

That's the part I have questions about in the video, that are not answerable (unless you are AB). Could he have turned around or gone down another path when he saw the moose? Instead of trying to scare it off.

AKPirate wrote:

Tiler_J wrote:

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

That's the part I have questions about in the video, that are not answerable (unless you are AB). Could he have turned around or gone down another path when he saw the moose? Instead of trying to scare it off.

Yep. I would have stayed where he was at the beginning of the video and not advanced.

Tiler_J wrote:

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

That's the part I have questions about in the video, that are not answerable (unless you are AB). Could he have turned around or gone down another path when he saw the moose? Instead of trying to scare it off.

aunt betty wrote:

Tiler_J wrote:

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

That's the part I have questions about in the video, that are not answerable (unless you are AB). Could he have turned around or gone down another path when he saw the moose? Instead of trying to scare it off.

I used to live in the hills north of Fairbanks, Alaska and have had moose encounters.
The man in the video pursued that moose. All he had to do was walk off the trail at a right angle and go smoke a bowl (legal in Alaska) then chill out a while and the moose would have went on it's own merry little way. He wanted to shoot it and did.
I'm sure I could have avoided shooting it. There was a trail down the hill I lived on that cut between everyones 5-acre yards. Yes, I've been eye to eye with a moose before and damn they're big. I was in a canoe and just paddled away. The moose stood there munching on river grass.

He had skis on I think or was that the skis on his sled?
The video shows a dumbass guy with a pistol imo.

aunt betty wrote:I forgot to mention he did not fire a warning shot. I would have at least wasted one round. Jeez.

aunt betty wrote:

Tiler_J wrote:

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

That's the part I have questions about in the video, that are not answerable (unless you are AB). Could he have turned around or gone down another path when he saw the moose? Instead of trying to scare it off.

I used to live in the hills north of Fairbanks, Alaska and have had moose encounters.
The man in the video pursued that moose. All he had to do was walk off the trail at a right angle and go smoke a bowl (legal in Alaska) then chill out a while and the moose would have went on it's own merry little way. He wanted to shoot it and did.
I'm sure I could have avoided shooting it. There was a trail down the hill I lived on that cut between everyones 5-acre yards. Yes, I've been eye to eye with a moose before and damn they're big. I was in a canoe and just paddled away. The moose stood there munching on river grass.

He had skis on I think or was that the skis on his sled?
The video shows a dumbass guy with a pistol imo.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:

aunt betty wrote:

Tiler_J wrote:

AKPirate wrote:At this time of year, they are on the edge of starving and are very temperamental. Best to give them a wide berth.

That's the part I have questions about in the video, that are not answerable (unless you are AB). Could he have turned around or gone down another path when he saw the moose? Instead of trying to scare it off.

I used to live in the hills north of Fairbanks, Alaska and have had moose encounters.
The man in the video pursued that moose. All he had to do was walk off the trail at a right angle and go smoke a bowl (legal in Alaska) then chill out a while and the moose would have went on it's own merry little way. He wanted to shoot it and did.
I'm sure I could have avoided shooting it. There was a trail down the hill I lived on that cut between everyones 5-acre yards. Yes, I've been eye to eye with a moose before and damn they're big. I was in a canoe and just paddled away. The moose stood there munching on river grass.

He had skis on I think or was that the skis on his sled?
The video shows a dumbass guy with a pistol imo.

You've obviously never operated a snowmobile in deep snow though. He goes off that trail and he would have been buried

Rick wrote:Unless there's a whole lot more to it than deep snow off the trail, like he was on his way to a life threatening fire, I think the guy's dumber than the moose, an asshole or both.