Sad encounter in the bush

RIP.....watching Alaska State Troopers one evening and a calf had been hit by a car, both front legs were broken and its momma was around. The Trooper took the time to wait the Momma out.....Sickening to see the calf trying to get up......Cop did not like putting the calf down......mother nature is cruel....unfortunately it wont ##### slap stupid people
 
Sometimes moose that are shot run on their sides like that. Is it possible that moose had been poached, and the perp ran off when you approached?
Lack of blood doesn't necessarily mean anything, poachers routinely use light calibre rifles.

Good idea to report it.
 
Could be. I couldn't see the other side of it so there might have been something there. Could have been a neck/spine shot with a small caliber rifle. It did look like the moose had been there a while. It has dedicated twice in 2 separate locations.

John Y Cannuck said:
Sometimes moose that are shot run on their sides like that. Is it possible that moose had been poached, and the perp ran off when you approached?
Lack of blood doesn't necessarily mean anything, poachers routinely use light calibre rifles.

Good idea to report it.
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Not sure if i would call it sad , but an interesting encounter for sure. Can calves get brainworm, because it could have been at the very end of that disease. Anyway's nature happens and things die , its just a fact of life. Good on you for being concerned though
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Sometimes moose that are shot run on their sides like that. Is it possible that moose had been poached, and the perp ran off when you approached?
Lack of blood doesn't necessarily mean anything, poachers routinely use light calibre rifles.

Good idea to report it.
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Yes. Moose are usually surprisingly easy to knock off their feet but can and will live for quite a while if wounded.

As far as blood trail goes, one time hunting this douche shot a cow moose in the ass with a 30-06 and it only bled for a few yards then nothing. Some young guys in a nearby camp tracked it for 2 days then killed it. Luckily it was old jackpine forest with lots of moss on the ground so it was pretty easy.
 
Most moose are born mid to late May, so that calf was probably a month old at best. I'm no expert on Meningeal worm/brain worm/moose sickness whatever you want to call it, but that seems awfully fast for death by this parasite. I have read up a bit on it in the past, and pretty much anything I found speaks of animals which are 8 months and older minimum.

My guess is that it's paralysis was due to an injury from another moose or perhaps a predator, but I've been known to be wrong many times before.
 
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