Whitehorse man killed while hunting bison over the long weekend

The winner of this season of Alone shot a bison with an arrow and then stabbed it multiple times with his knife!
 
Consider your chances with a knife. :redface:

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Grizz
 
It doesn't matter what it is, deer, moose, wolf or any other thing that can hurt me bad I give it plenty of time to expire and bleed out before I approach it. When I used to smoke it was a two smoke break and then wander up slowly. Why spoil your day or soil your pants?
 
I knew a fella that shot a doe out by the Scout camp near Moose Jaw with a BP rifle, which he did not reload.

Had the doe flat on her back straddling her, grabbed a pinch of belly, about to open her up and when he poked her with his knife, she came to, and kicked the living jebus outta him, then walked away. Not ran, walked! LOL!

I pretty much always take the path that the animal may still have one last wallop left on it, approach carefully, poke it in the eye with the barrel of a loaded rifle to check for any reflex, if I have any doubts at all.

Ammo is cheap, healing takes a long time, dead is longer still...

Crapppy deal for the man and his family.
 
trevj said:
I knew a fella that shot a doe out by the Scout camp near Moose Jaw with a BP rifle, which he did not reload.

Had the doe flat on her back straddling her, grabbed a pinch of belly, about to open her up and when he poked her with his knife, she came to, and kicked the living jebus outta him, then walked away. Not ran, walked! LOL!

I pretty much always take the path that the animal may still have one last wallop left on it, approach carefully, poke it in the eye with the barrel of a loaded rifle to check for any reflex, if I have any doubts at all.

Ammo is cheap, healing takes a long time, dead is longer still...

Crapppy deal for the man and his family.
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Heard the same thing happened to a local retired cop. Emptied his rifle on a fawn and jumped out of stand to finish it off with his knife. He did end up taking the fawn into camp but most of the blood on him did not belong to the fawn.
 
Cameron SS said:
Perhaps he should have been.

From the OIC Amnesty for firearms prohibited by the May 1 amendments to the classification regulations.



The bit about until you can obtain another firearm is interesting, because it presumes obtain another firearm USEFUL FOR THAT PURPOSE, but is not prohibited.

When your purpose is to hunt with a firearm of sufficient power to put down bison, any such firearm would also be prohibited.

So the real question here, if this guy was NOT hunting with a 10k J E firearm, WOULD he have been hunting with a 10k J E firearm were it not for the ban. IF this guy would have been hunting with a more powerful firearm, but didn't because of the ban, than its entirely possible that this ban has as much to do with his death as the Bison.
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very good point.
 
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