Riding a moose...?

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I've read a short story about a fella who nursed an abandoned young bull moose calf back to health. Did everything possible to return it to wild but it became domesticated and never left the farm.

We have friends that own the Becker Lake Ranch and a couple years ago found a young moose in distress along the upper fencelines.
Upon investigating it was found that this moose, also a bull under a year old, was born with or suffered at birth, a condition that left it mostly blind.
It lives with and grazes with the cattle herd and is apparently doing very well.
Don't think I'll try and ride it tho LOL
 
MD said:
Those are just so fake. The old photo is so obviously cut and paste it stinks. The logo on the back of the guys jacket in #2 says something about a Quebec harness horse club.
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The second one is actually true. Was one the guy raised from a calf. It would leave durring the rutt, and come back after.
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
People are not acknowledging the difference between domesticated and wild beasts.

Any situation with a wild animal and a human encounter is a life and death moment for the animal, they know nothing else but flight or fight.They don't know what fun is.

A domesticated bovine will stand there and let you shoot it , a cow moose, not so much.
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I don't see how it is any different than a bunch of guys on a stag going down to the Fraser and catching a Sturgeon for a picture.
 
Some people here need to separate hunting. This isn't hunting. Yes there are laws etc regarding harassing wild life. But in reality, this is no different than those who catch wild horses and break them ie now called "backed" for riding. The animal was in water, which is an old trick I believe natives used to use for breaking in horses. In the old West, horses ran wild and were caught then trained for saddle. In some places of the world the same happens. Is it smart to try this on a Moose? Not really. That being said people have tried with Zebra and well we know Elephants have been trained to accept riders.
 
I first felt sorry for the fellow who jumped on the mooses back - don't moose have a razorback like a goat? Riding pigs is tough but have you ever climbed aboard a goat? It's like riding the crossbar on your bicycle through a plowed field - 'cept worse cause there are no brakes nor peddles to stand on.

Then I felt sorry for the fellow who jumped off the moose into that water - it looks like glacial water - have you tried swimming in that? Anyone who can take that chill - or any beast that can take it - has no heart issues that would be worsened by riding or being ridden.

It looked to me like the moose was touching bottom - never really swimming.

Having a story like that to tell in deer camp would be much better than carrying a 480 Wimpchester Bangnum - Everyone would be impressed - really impressed - except for those who ... are not.
 
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Maybe people should just stop showing the world every damn thing they do in their lives!!! If they wouldn't have posted the video nobody would know except maybe their friends, and they would still have proof they did it. I don't think i really could say something like this wouldn't have happened 30 years and a bunch of beers ago in my circle of friends. Too soon old, too late smart.

Moosey
 
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_work_moose_in_harness.htm

Analysis: The image is a fake, as are the various captions and stories accompanying it on its email rounds since early February 2007. One version says the photo was taken in Wyoming. Another says it was taken on St. Joseph Island in Lake Huron, Canada. Yet another claims it was taken in Maine. In truth, the picture is a composite, different parts of which could have been taken anywhere in the world.

A peek at its EXIF data reveals that the original photograph (presumably of the woodsy background) was taken with a Kodak digital camera on September 10, 2006, and edited in Adobe Photoshop on December 12, 2006. Let's examine it more closely.

Chevaux d'Abitibi


Detail #1
The gentleman who appears to be harnessing the moose is wearing a blue jacket emblazoned with an illustration of a horse-drawn carriage and a logo that includes the words "Chevaux d'Abitibi" ("Horses of Abitibi"). From these, it seems reasonable to postulate that: 1) this element of the image was cut and pasted from a photo taken in the Abitibi region of Quebec, Canada, and 2) in that original photograph the subject was harnessing (or perhaps shoeing) a horse, not a moose.

The strap to nowhere


Overall, our mystery Photoshopper did a pretty convincing job of creating the impression that the moose is actually wearing a harness, though I wonder -- admittedly knowing very little about such things -- if the type of rig shown isn't too fancy for hauling logs. Note the telltale dark outline (or shadow) around the bit of strap curling down below the moose's midsection. Note, too, that when the contrast is softened on the portion of the image around the man's right hand (see Detail #2), he appears to be holding a six-inch length of strap attached to... nothing!

Mirror-image woodpiles


Lastly, note the matching woodpiles -- they are mirror images, actually -- in the lower right and left-hand corners of the photo. Nice trick, barely noticeable on first glance, but a clear example of the kind of photo fakery that went into the construction of this image.
 
I posted those images as they were the first ones to show up on a search that were funny. I was hoping my serious sentence wouldn't actually be taken seriously accompanied with those pictures.
 
Fun has nothing to do with it. If that isn't "game harassment", then I don't understand the term. The kid has guts, but if he wants to be bronc rider, he can get into the rodeo circuit. What he did was the typical - "Look at the dumb thing I'm doing and posting on facebook!" Too bad the moose didn't get in a couple of licks.

I've had a cow moose turn on me when my dog was chasing her and her calf. Once Momma took a stand, my dog did the smart thing - she hid behind me! I had my .50 Sharps cocked and ready and we stared each other down at 25 yds until she snorted and trotted after her calf. Getting stomped by an irate moose is not on my bucket list.
 
c-fbmi said:
This is not a hunting situation by any stretch of the imagination, and I don't believe one can glean any sense of hunter ethics from an adventurous stunt such as this. The party/parties involved may have the highest standard of hunting ethics..........and they may not, but I doubt that it has anything to do with some liquid courage shenanigans as shown here, any more than my hunting ethics could be determined from riding the neighbors milk cow, or any number of other stupid things I have done in my life.
I would ask if any of those on here who are so appalled by this harmless activity, have never driven home from a party or the bar after having a tad too much to drink or fudged the speed limit by 10 or 15 Kph, or darted across the street on a "Don't Walk" sign, or came back from the US without declaring EVERTHING. If so does this automatically mean you are an unethical hunter...............

I for one, am not so judgmental as to define a person by one ill conceived stunt.
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Would this include Cow Tipping?
And to each their own on how they feel about these guys...and cfbmi the last line was not directed at you ..just the cow tipping .
Rob
 
If you acquaint chasing chickens to harassing wild life (i.e. riding a swimming moose), you have a problem.

One involves domestic animals, the other wild game protected by law.
 
Kelly Timoffee said:
A domesticated bovine will stand there and let you shoot it , a cow moose, not so much.
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You so sure about that? Had a cow moose stand within 15ft of me for over 20mins, only to decide to get a closer look, walked right up to me until I put the barrel of my rifle out in front of me. She decided to take a sniff of the end of the barrel, leave some nose juice on it and only then decided to slowly be on her way.. Not all encounters with wild animals is a life or death situation, far from it. Maybe you should get out more often......
 
CGN, uniting gun owners so we can be divided.................











why do animal and hunting threads derail faster then trains in quebec???
 
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