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Bow Hunter Suffers Nearly-Fatal Moose Attack in Colorado After Trying to Kill the Animal
People ^ | September 15, 2022 | Charmaine Patterson

Posted on 05/21/2024 5:52:40 PM PDT by xxqqzz

A man's GPS emergency response device may have saved his life after a moose attacked him in Colorado.

On Tuesday around noon, an archery hunter was sporting near Larimer County's Trap Creek when he fired a shot at a bull moose and missed.

"The moose turned and charged, goring and trampling the man and inflicting life-threatening injuries," Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in a release on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


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To: rlmorel

Thank you for enhancing the fiction section of today’s FR Magazine! Between SunkenCiv and writers like you, who needs expensive subscriptions?


41 posted on 05/22/2024 12:06:09 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Not me, AW! Not me. I used to have loads of subscriptions. Not a single one now, though I do subscribe to web sites...:)


42 posted on 05/22/2024 12:34:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

That’s pretty good.


43 posted on 05/22/2024 6:30:33 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: xoxox
Everything I know about moose, I learned from Moose Radio in New Hampshire. I remember very little of that, but this: The average moose has over 30,000 ticks on it.

What a nightmare.

Is that really true? I guess I could see it in light of how abundant I've found ticks to be around here. We do tick checks every night when we've been outside at all during the day.

44 posted on 05/22/2024 6:34:46 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom

Thanks, metmom. I visualized that all in a few seconds as I read the article, and it made me want to try my hand at writing it down. Which took longer...:)


45 posted on 05/22/2024 8:56:06 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

What’s credible is the brain freeze aspect. The hyper awareness of your situation and how you notice details that otherwise would be not noticed, along with how fast it can happen while you are still trying to process it and react.

Part of the flight, fight, or freeze mode.


46 posted on 05/22/2024 10:06:53 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: DesertRhino

I nominate you :)


47 posted on 05/22/2024 10:39:43 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: metmom

I had a traumatic event six years ago, I was not physically injured, but it gave me a taste of what PTSD is, as for months, I had a little super slow motion, full color video playing in my head every time my time was not occupied with something.

I thought about this poor hunter who was attacked by this moose he was hunting, and I wondered what that experience must be like for him.

That big damn moose face with the flaring nostrils and malignant eyes full of malice right before it gores you and stamps you into the ground. Makes me shudder.


48 posted on 05/23/2024 4:06:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: metmom

Been thinking of moving there for a while. The thought of tick checks...not welcoming but I suppose manageable. But I remember visiting my sister once and the black flies were so thick you couldn’t breathe without inhaling them. And then there’s winter...we’ve done that before, but it will be an adustment. Between that and the price of property, there are some obstacles.


49 posted on 05/23/2024 4:44:22 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: rlmorel

Can’t see a moose being malicious.


50 posted on 05/23/2024 4:45:04 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: chief lee runamok

I was hiking a trail in the Tetons alone as the sun kept getting lower in the sky. Going up a set of switch backs. A bull moose was also going up the hill - straight up the hill.

I decided that with the sun going down (I was backpacking, and wanted to get off the steep hill to camp for the night) I couldn’t just wait him out, so I timed things so that when he was near the center of the trail I would be at one of the switch backs away from him. We did that dance for quite awhile. I had read that a moose was one of the more dangerous animals at times.


51 posted on 05/23/2024 4:54:50 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: rlmorel

I had a similar thing happen when my dad died.


52 posted on 05/23/2024 6:10:59 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: xoxox

Heh, keep in mind...”malice” and “malicious” are not the same thing, even though they share the root.

Malice defines the nature of the action (A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite) which is to cause harm or injure...Malicious is a “nature” of something, implying forethought.

A charging moose can definitely charge a human with malice (a desire to harm) but...we agree, a moose isn’t malicious.

That would tread the territory of anthropomorphism. And moose HATE that...:)


53 posted on 05/23/2024 8:57:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

54 posted on 05/23/2024 8:59:38 AM PDT by xoxox
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