Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Brainard Lake CO Moose Kill Has Some People Upset

Cliff notes version. Traditional archer shoots a big bull moose. It runs a hundred yards to wildlife watchers who get upset.

Moose Shot By Bow Hunter at Brainard Lake

Considering the link is to a Boulder newspaper, it's not as anti-hunting as I expected.

The link doesn't seem to be working.

I read the article on their webpage, it's very slow. Hats off to Jennifer Churchill, the CP&W spokesman. Everything she said was perfect. I give no credit to the Boulder paper for being even-handed, it was all her.

Probably just me not realizing how to link articles in the forum. How about this one?

Hunter Faces Backlash

Mountain lions are quite effective at killing moose. So not sure why they say there are no natural predators in CO for them. Sounds like a great spot to shoot a moose, short pack out apparently and some of the wildlife watchers could hold a leg for you perhaps.

If it wasn't for hunters paying for the Moose transplant to Colorado in 1978, the wildlife watchers/photographers wouldn't have any moose to see.

Bambi watchers need to grow up. I don't hunt my yard moose either, preferring to go miles away, but should a legal moose wander into the yard during season, he's meat in the freezer. No "hunt" at all..... but meat is meat. Where they are is a good place to kill one...

Nice job of the hunter putting in a fatal shot. I can only imagine what the article would have read should it not have been such a nice shot.

I imagine this will turn the hunt into one with legal hunting days only on week days to eliminate human conflict. They already have several of these hunts for mountain goats and bighorn sheep where hikers and climbers are usually very active on the weekends.

Imagine, too, it wasn't that long ago the liberals were wanting the CP&W to release wolves into Rocky Mountain National Park versus using hunters and snipers to curve the elk population. Can you imagine the horror of some liberals watching a pack of wolves take down an elk in their back yard or while having a picnic somewhere while hiking.

No I can't. Those fools would oooh and aahhh in admiration of "Nature".. It's we humans who are un-natural, cruel, slaughtering, insensitive, "murderers" of wild animals.

We are not part of "Nature" in their view, but petting-park outsiders, looking in.

Well, they are. Not me. Fine. There isn't enough room in here for all of us....