I could understand if he was in first, but if he was in any other position, the other teams are required to stop and help. Then the musher who killed the moose still gets to leave before the helping team, although the time advantage is gone.
A .357 with a 2-inch barrel....
Dang.....the recoil must be epic.
I know he was protecting his dogs, but it’s worth noting that his sister was also not bitten. Moose bites can be pretty nasty.
I’m just thinking about the noise of the gun.
I shot a .357 mag without ear protection and my ears had a pinging sound for the rest of the day.
My friend won a moose-hunt lottery permit in Maine
he killed a moose, had about 300 lbs of ice in his truck, and an ATV to get into the area where he shot the moose
He could only harvest, ice-down and carry out parts of the hind-quarters, and still had several hundred pounds of meat. Said it took him most of the daylight to process what he did
the rest was left for the wolves, bears and other critters
“Moose are big”
And tall. I knew a guy who was photographer on call for the Anchorage newspaper in the ‘80s. This might be an urban legend, but he told of a traffic accident he had to photograph.
A very small small sports car ran broadside into a large moose crossing the road, and under the moose between the legs. It took the top off the car (maybe ragtop?), and basically decapitated the two people in the car. Gruesome.
True? IDK.
Rule 34 — Killing of Dangerous ‘Animals’: In the event that an ‘animal’, is killed in defense of life or property, the musher must gut the animal and report the incident to an official at the next checkpoint. Following persons must help gut the animal when possible. No person may pass until the animal has been gutted and the musher killing the animal has proceeded.
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I modified the rule, adapting it to the lower 48.
I knew we had lax gun laws, Moose are getting guns now... 🤓
03/09/2024 7:45:09 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
CBS News ^ | March 7, 2024
Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the moose, which became tangled up with Seavey and his dog team early Monday, about 12 hours after the dayslong race officially started. One dog was injured in the encounter and flown back to Anchorage for care. On Tuesday, Dallas Seavey Racing said on social media that the injured dog, named Faloo, was in...