Thomas Pidgeon

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I was beginning to believe all the blogs on here, stating what a fine hunter Sir Thomas was.
Then came this morning, with our clocks set ahead, and there was the great hunter shooting a large moose in a lake! While the moose was doing its best to get to shore closer to the hunter. First shot slowed the moose down. There, that was just right, he can still make shore, but probably not much more. Bang! Oh, oh, hit pretty hard, may not make shore now. Bang! That did it, dead moose well out in the lake.
Even the rankest of new moose hunters should know better than this. And I suppose he will have his followers here that will defend his action with the moose.
 
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It looked to me as if the second shot actually hit the water about 1 foot below the moose. There was a distinct splash in that location. I also think you can see the bullet flying through the air for the last 10 or 20 feet before it hit the cariboo that he shot.

cheers mooncoon
 
I missed the show this morning. I'm still trying to shake the flu bug. I won't, by any means, try and defend the guy or 'some' of his antics but for the most part, his shows aren't too bad. However, one in particular that I did take exception to, and sent him an e-mail to that effect, was a past episode where he was 'hunting' Cariboo with a bow. The only thing it exemplified was a total lack of ethics hunting with a bow.
 
The " awe crap" look on the guides face is priceless... I like the show but its not a shot I would have taken. I have no interest in dealing with a moose in a lake they are enough work on dry land.
 
I seen that episode some time ago and said the same thing,"OH $HIT". I couldn't believe he shot it in the water either. A moose that size, actually any moose in water would be a pretty lousy thing to try and handle-----Cowboy
 
mooncoon said:
I also think you can see the bullet flying through the air for the last 10 or 20 feet before it hit the cariboo that he shot.

cheers mooncoon
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I thought that I saw a ricochet of the ground, in front of cariboo, looked more like 20-30m but still kind of surprising, but the bull dropped like a stone:confused:

the moose shouldnt be a problem, as long as you got a good boat, and its not too cold
 
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As a noob to moose hunting, but not an amateur swimmer, I thought it was against regs to shoot a swimming moose. Correct? Or was he merely a "wading moose". I didn't see the show....Fricken' ExpressVu on the fritz
 
If they are standing in the water then it is not illegal, but still crappy for who ever has to get out there to get the thing. We have been close a number of times to having wounded deer drop into a pond, but they always dropped just on th edge. As I am the young one in the group I am sure it would be me wading out there to get it.
 
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As a noob to moose hunting, but not an amateur swimmer, I thought it was against regs to shoot a swimming moose. Correct?
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The first time he shot, it was a wading moose about knee deep as I recall. After the first shot, the moose charged towards him and he fired twice more, with shot 2 to my eyes at least, missing and striking about 1 foot below the moose just behind the right leg and by the second shot the moose was I think belly deep and the shot struck just below the spine and I would assume right in the heart.

More to the point, once you fire the first shot and wound the animal, you have an obligation to quickly and humanely finish the animal off regardless of where it is (within the limits of safety of course)

cheers mooncoon
 
There was a lot of moose above the water on the first shot, then it got into deeper water. The second shot may have glanced off the water, but there was a definite reaction from the moose, so it hit. I thought there was more reaction from the moose on the second shot than there was from the first. After the third shot the moose virtually disappeared in the water, until parts came up, so it must have been swimming at that point. After the first shot the moose was making good time toward shore, quite close to the hunter. Under those circumstances I don't think it would be inhumane, or unethical, to let the moose come to shore. Of course, the big mistake was the first shot. Moose have such poor eye sight that it probably didn't know the hunters were even there.
In BC it is a violation of the hunting regulations to shoot any animal while it is swimming. I didn't see the first of the show, so don't know where the hunting took place, but it looked like it could have been Quebec or northern Ontario.
 
I usually tape CITR, but didn't this morning.
I did watch it live, but didn't notice the bullet strike the water.
As i didn't tape it, I cannot review it.
It seemed to me that after firing the first round near the shore, the moose ran into deeper water so he pounded 2 more into it.
 
I watched the show as well and well if he thought he had hit on the first shot then I would say he is obligated to finish the job, which he did. I taped the show and to be honest the video quality isn't up to snuff compared to more recent shows.

Hard to say if it was me and I thought I had "winged" it with the first round I would have pounded a couple more in as well to finish the job.

Not to stray too far of topic but the "Angler and Hunter" show used to have a bear running across an opening in the introduction of the show (looked like a power line) and from the camera angle it looked like Cam took an offhand shot just as the bear crossed into the bush line.

That's the trouble with TV though none of us know the whole story.
 
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