Ice fisher has 2nd thoughts about hunting after rescuing moose

[MikePal]

Good story..he saved a pregnant (?) cow...and it may have changed how he hunts.

He says the experience has changed him. He doesn't know if he will ever hunt for moose again.

"I have hunted moose all the time. But this scenario and perspective has given me a different view. It's hard to explain. It's a good feeling, a really good feeling. We saved her and there was no better feeling than that. To get her out from that situation from as bad as it was, to have a happy ending liked that. It was awesome."

As much as he loves eating moose meat, Jackson can't say if he will be able to eat it again.

"Definitely that one hit home with me. Locking eyes on her and being so close to her. It changed my perspective for sure."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...lake-1.5066648

[Bluebulldog]

Interesting perspective.

Many assume that those that hunt have psychopathic tendencies, or lack basic empathy. While this can be the case...it is a rarity.

I loved watching a little brood of ducks near my house grow from fuzzy to mature, and felt horrible when I saw one that got hit too close to the road.

Come the Fall we should have an appreciation for those that did make it to adulthood, and give reverence in some part for when we do harvest. I'm sure most of us do.

However, unless the guy in the article becomes a vegan...he's living in denial.

Hunters at least have the integrity to know where their meat comes from, and have the ability to look it in the eye.

[Bluebulldog]

"We recognize a universal truth....that our life, our breath and our thoughts are given to us by the plants and animals we eat. This is true for every one of us, whether we get our food by hunting, fishing, gathering, farming, gardening or shopping. The only difference is that we who inhabit the cities and suburbs and towns have forgotten. Our forgetfulness is created by the supermarket, where we pluck from the shelves processed bits of plants and animals that are hidden inside boxes, cans and packages, creating an illusion that we can have food without harvest, that life can be maintained without death, that our daily existence is separate from the land, and that we are fundamentally different from all other organisms."

Richard K. Nelson, Introductions to a Hunter's Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport, collected by David Peterson

[Doug]

I agree with Bulldog.


As a member of Delta Waterfowl, I with others put out Duck Boxes and Hen Houses to increase the likelihood of nesting success. I then spend the spring and summer watching and photographing these ducks, come fall, the more ducks, the more shooting opportunities.
I put out minerals for deer, and put cameras over these sites, I drive the back roads at evenings all summer, my camera at my side. I like to get photos of deer, I enjoy watching fawns frolicking and playing; but come fall I am in my stand, bow in hand.
I belong to most of the hunting groups; but am also on a local conservation committee. I am giving back with these efforts, in my way I am helping to ensure the birds and animals I pursue have the opportunity to survive, reproduce and thrive. Much like this gentleman did when he assisted in rescuing this moose from a sure and miserable death, it is alive and can reproduce as well as provide some great table fare for a lucky Hunter.

This guy had better not go on any farm tours, cattle have big sad looking eyes.

[line052]

One persons opinion...not mine. I would help in a situation like this if able, it is human nature. I can sympathise with his feelings and have just watched some mornings, the graceful approach of a duck landing on the water, or rabbit in the bush and learned to appreciate the site of nature. Maybe if he watched how the wolves would disembowel the already weakened moose...he might take up predator hunting.

[trimmer21]

Good story..he saved a pregnant (?) cow...and it may have changed how he hunts.



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...lake-1.5066648

First,there's this.

One persons opinion...not mine. I would help in a situation like this if able, it is human nature. I can sympathise with his feelings and have just watched some mornings, the graceful approach of a duck landing on the water, or rabbit in the bush and learned to appreciate the site of nature. Maybe if he watched how the wolves would disembowel the already weakened moose...he might take up predator hunting.

Then,there's this........... which brings it all into perspective.

[trimmer21]

"We recognize a universal truth....that our life, our breath and our thoughts are given to us by the plants and animals we eat. This is true for every one of us, whether we get our food by hunting, fishing, gathering, farming, gardening or shopping. The only difference is that we who inhabit the cities and suburbs and towns have forgotten. Our forgetfulness is created by the supermarket, where we pluck from the shelves processed bits of plants and animals that are hidden inside boxes, cans and packages, creating an illusion that we can have food without harvest, that life can be maintained without death, that our daily existence is separate from the land, and that we are fundamentally different from all other organisms."

Richard K. Nelson, Introductions to a Hunter's Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport, collected by David Peterson

....and this. That's awesome. Thanks for this,BBD.

[SongDog]

Very well said Bluebulldog.


See if that was me, I'd say I'm definitely going moose hunting next year!

Its Karma, I'm going to shoot a giant bull because I helped saved a cow.. LOL

CBC likely wouldn't add that to their article though....

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