Posted on 10/11/2013 6:25:01 AM PDT by chessplayer
My, don't they look proud. But after shooting this rare albino moose near Belle Cote in Nova Scotia last week — and posting the pics to social media — the trio has sparked considerable outrage, particularly among the region's Mi'kmaq indigenous community.
These guys breached a kind of unwritten code of conduct that has also upset many in the hunting community.
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Still waiting on a decent explanation as to what exactly we should be ridiculing them for?
A good shot at a decent range? Bringing home hundreds of pounds of meat for their table? Following the Law?
White meat is supposed to be healthier to eat.
I support eradicating the weaker genetic variants from the gene pool, plus the whole healthier meat angle.
“Same line of reasoning libs use for killing off babies that have birth defects.”
IBTZ?
Sad that a long time FReeper is equating a wild moose to human beings.
Calling the viking kitties....
It’s common knowledge and settled science that people who hunt are Kermit Gosnell wannabe’s. /sarc
“I am a Libertarian against all government, yet see the need for it in protecting nature against your type of thinking.”
Hahaha! I am a libertarian against all government, except when I’m not!
“What makes you think you have the right to hunt rare species?”
Moose are rare?
Of course I know you, via your postings, but you need to understand...
The albino of the species is an aberration. They need to be culled for the good of the herd.
Before you respond to me, look up what I said first.
5.56mm
“Only because they can’t get to them....it’s a long way from the Arctic to the Antarctic!!!”
Best friday afternoon comment all day! I was going to give the award to Z and the other poster, but you beat them both! Is it 5:00 yet?
Easiest, most effective way to ensure the continuation of a species like that is to get the general public to think they are tasty.
As previously noted, we aren’t running out of cows, pigs, chickens, or turkeys...
Albino deer, moose and buffalo, squirrels, people have occurred in the past and will likely continue in the future.
There is a reason why North America has an abundance of animals. It is because of hunters. The taxes they pay, the permits that they buy and the associations they fund.
I don’t really think it is possible for one person to see all of the animals that we have on the planet. They wouldn’t live long enough to accomplish that task.
“Open your eyes and your brain and look around the world at the places which do not protect animals. Where this happens they no longer exist.”
You mean like the animals in Africa that are being dessimated? The thriving of wild animals has nothing to do with “protecting animals.” It has everything to do with private property. As long as private property is promoted, the owner has the MOST interest in the thriving of his property, to include the wild animals that he would like to hunt. He will manage that property to ensure a long term survivability of all things he would like to harvest from that property, to include the animals that pass through.
However, in the cases where animals are being devistated, it is due to the government owning the land. As a result, the local hunters/poachers, decimate those heards as fast as is possible because if they don’t “get it now,” then someone else will and then they will miss out.
The answer to your concerns is to get the government out of the land ownership business and promote more private ownership by hunt clubs or other organizations that will have a long term interest in that land.
or pink with purple stripes. ...You see him,too?!! I thought it was the Jagermeister!
Nonsense.
The places with the most regulations are the ones where the animals are disappearing the fastest.
Humans or wild animals are your choices.
Humans take less and do less damage then the wild predators do especially in areas where hunting is not allowed at all.
I’d like to try Moose some time.
I like wild pig and deer.
Winning comment of the thread.
I’ve really treid to like deer over the last couple decades. Smoked, jerky, sausage, mixed with buffalo/elk/cow, cut with lard, wrapped in bacon, with a red-wine mushroom sauce...
Just don’t care much for it.
Wild hog is indistinguishable from any other pig. Javelina is a little tougher than wild hog. Peccary and domestic swine are cousins, so that isn’t too much of a surprise.
They’re destructive little buggers too. Not much of a problem in MN yet, but I’m always on the lookout for somewhere to hunt them in Wisconsin, Iowa, or even South Dakota.
Agreed. Well said indeed.
Let me get this straight; you really think that what these guys should have done was to come up with the idea to track, capture and transport a live moose and then sell it to an animal farm? I can think of quite a few laws that would break. Or that they should start an albino moose sightseeing tour based on the sighting of a, wait for it, moose they saw during moose season? Really, break it down for me how this would work.
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