Moose hunting Video--Would you Have Taken This Shot?

[Hi5]

Would you have taken this shot?

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[vixenmaster]

Hell yeah & kicked the Bull in the butt as he went by! You only live once that was exciting!

[ComfyBear]

That was a "dumbass" move on all counts. Besides being too close for comfort, the angle was wrong, resulting in the moose being gut shot. It was only by the grace of God that the hunter, and I use that term loosely, came out of that unscathe.

[Jim M]

If I'm not mistaken, the hunter is the editor of Bowhunter Magazine. They
showed the hunt on their TV show. It looked like a terrible angle. I'm
suprised they aired it. Supposedly they did recover the moose. I'd like to
say that I'd never take that shot, but maybe adrenaline would overpower
common sense

[OkXbowHunter]

The bowhunter in that video is Dwight Schuh. He's probably killed more animals with a bow than any 3 of us combined...and I've killed a lot of critters with a stick and string. In fact, if memory serves me correct, he only hunts with a bow. I can remember reading his articles 20 years or more ago.

As for the shot, I went frame by frame when it appeared on TV with my TiVo. I saw that film on Bowhunter TV last year and the online video that was posted on this forum. The arrow went in at the neck, between the shoulders and looks like a pass through. That's why the bull kicked. It's a deadly shot depending on where the arrow enters. It may hit the jugular and if not, it will certainly get the lungs or perhaps even the heart (again, it depends on the shot placement). I've killed more than a few whitetails with a quartering toward me shot as well as a head on shot. You have to know where to place the arrow and have confidence you can put it where it needs to go.

[one shot scott]

I thought that looked like Dwight Schuh. I used to subscribe to his magazine, that is until they outright turned their backs on the crossbow and crossbow hunter.
I would never take a shot at that angle, that is why Dwight ended up gut shooting that Moose. In the slo-mo at the end of the clip it looks like gut shot, even though at regular speed it looks like neck. I would have expect better. If he was just a little more patient it looks like it would have been broadside. I wonder if he recovered it.

[Hi5]

The bowhunter in that video is Dwight Schuh. He's probably killed more animals with a bow than any 3 of us combined...and I've killed a lot of critters with a stick and string. In fact, if memory serves me correct, he only hunts with a bow. I can remember reading his articles 20 years or more ago.

As for the shot, I went frame by frame when it appeared on TV with my TiVo. I saw that film on Bowhunter TV last year and the online video that was posted on this forum. The arrow went in at the neck, between the shoulders and looks like a pass through. That's why the bull kicked. It's a deadly shot depending on where the arrow enters. It may hit the jugular and if not, it will certainly get the lungs or perhaps even the heart (again, it depends on the shot placement). I've killed more than a few whitetails with a quartering toward me shot as well as a head on shot. You have to know where to place the arrow and have confidence you can put it where it needs to go.

You may be right in your analysis. However, when you watch from the 1minute 14 seconds point of the video, it sure looks as though the skin moves just in front of the moose's right hip. That may have been a muscle twitch, I acknowledge. However, I sure suspect it was an arrow impact. I really doubt that the way the moose was presenting that an arrow could have got around the front right shoulder. It certainly wouldn't have busted its way through a moose's shoulder bone.

[OkXbowHunter]

What some of you are not taking into account is the angle of the Cameraman in relationship to Dwight. The Camera guy is off to the left. Dwight is more lined up with the Moose.

If you can find the show on TV and you have TiVo or some other type of DVR, check it out at frame per frame.

[TYE]

I think I would have waited till it was broadside or quartering away, more than 6' away lol.

I had a bear charge me like that but luckily I had my .30-06 and blew it's head off right infront of me...

[agingcrossbower]

I was on a Elk hunt about the late 80's and Dwight was also on that hunt. I talked quit a bit with him and he appear to me to be a hell of a hunter with great respect for the animal and the sport. I am sure he knew exactly where that arrow point would hit. He is one of the best bowmen I 've ever had the pleasure to share a hunt with.

[bkisel]

No, not me. I just wouldn't have the confidence (courage?) to take that shot.

Bill K.

[j.krug]

If the moose is coming in he's coming in!
If I'm standing that close I'm probably gonna take a whack at him if he goes broadside or passes by and offers a quartering away shot.
I don't think I would have taken the quartering towards me shot.

Either way I would hope I had a change of shorts in my pack!!

[whateverworks]

oxbowhunter is right, i saw the episode on wild tv when they aired it last year or the year before. He shot him in the neck. the bull charged him but at the last minute, right when the camera man dove, the moose spun 180 and ran out the way he came in, they recovered him outside of the thick trees they were in not too fay away. I believe they also talked about it on a later episode as well.

[ComfyBear]

With creative editing and special effects one can't be sure what is seen is what occurred. What I do know is that if what is seen in the clip is true, it was a BONE -HEAD move. He might have been a proficient hunter in days gone by, but age has caught up to him. He was spared from a tragic ending by the grace of God, not by his professed skill. Next time he might not be so lucky.

You know what they say, "If you play with the bull, sooner or later you get the horns"

[bob1961]

any animal that close "WILL" present a broadside shot no matter how fast it might turn away from you....so you don't get that 6 foot shot and have to settle on a 8 foot shot ....my god man wait for the broadside shot with an animal that close, it has to turn right or left or will step on you ........bob

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