Bow Hunter Suffers Nearly-Fatal Moose Attack in Colorado After Trying to Kill the Animal

People ^ | September 15, 2022 | Charmaine Patterson

[Albion Wilde]

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

[rlmorel]

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

[metmom]

That’s pretty good.

[metmom]

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.

[rlmorel]

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...:)

[metmom]

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.

[ModelBreaker]

I nominate you :)

[rlmorel]

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.

[xoxox]

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.

[xoxox]

Can’t see a moose being malicious.

[21twelve]

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.

[metmom]

I had a similar thing happen when my dad died.

[rlmorel]

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...:)

[xoxox]