Moose attacks sled driver in Alaska

[Hogpatrol]

This is a classic "Bring enough gun" scenario. Musher is attacked and is only carrying a .380. Sitting here after I read this and just SMH.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moose-attacks-iditarod-sled-team-4-dogs-injured-bridgett-wakins/

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

This is a classic "Bring enough gun" scenario. Musher is attacked and is only carrying a .380. Sitting here after I read this and just SMH.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/moose-attacks-iditarod-sled-team-4-dogs-injured-bridgett-wakins/

The link was a dead for me... Not Found?

 

[TucsonFX4]

The link was a dead for me... Not Found?

Fake news

 

[sestoppelman]

Moose attacks Iditarod sled team, seriously injuring 4 dogs: "He trampled the team and then turned for us"

The attack didn't end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal, she said.

www.cbsnews.com

I dont believe this is fake news, its all over the place.

 

[YancyW]

I can't imagine the scenario one would envision where a .380 is the answer.

I once had a well known firearms instructor tell me, "I wouldn't carry a .380 in my ass even if I had enough room for a canoe up there".

 

[sestoppelman]

I can't imagine the scenario one would envision where a .380 is the answer.

I once had a well known firearms instructor tell me, "I wouldn't carry a .380 in my ass even if I had enough room for a canoe up there".

Well, it was a chick you know.....

 

[TucsonFX4]

Moose attacks Iditarod sled team, seriously injuring 4 dogs: "He trampled the team and then turned for us"

The attack didn't end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal, she said.

www.cbsnews.com

I dont believe this is fake news, its all over the place.

I was kidding. Just poking at the link not working.

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

I can't imagine the scenario one would envision where a .380 is the answer.

I once had a well known firearms instructor tell me, "I wouldn't carry a .380 in my ass even if I had enough room for a canoe up there".

What's a .380?

 

[YancyW]

Well, it was a chick you know.....

Oh, I'm aware....

 

[TucsonFX4]

Reading that article was frustrating. Granted, I’m not a musher, as she says, but to say no musher would ever carry a rifle or large caliber gun because all the jostling would easily make it go off, and then to say “It’s not that I wasn’t prepared. I wasn’t prepared to kill a moose, that’s correct.” It then goes on to say she has since gone on to upgrade to a larger caliber (what about it going off easily?)

You would think growing up in Alaska in the outdoors would aid in not being ignorant…

 

[JimP]

What's a .380?

A 9mm short

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

What's a .380?

The caliber of gun that started WWI.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Try this link. I may have dropped off a letter on the first post.

Moose attacks Iditarod sled team, seriously injuring 4 dogs: "He trampled the team and then turned for us"

The attack didn't end even after Bridgett Watkins emptied her gun into the animal, she said.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Hogpatrol]

She needs to stick to nursing. She obviously doesn't know WTF she's doing as a sled driver in a wilderness area.

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

I hope she doesn’t encounter a bear while training in the off-season… Of course she’s probably upgraded to .38 Special by now.

 

[Bearbait1]

Moose stomping dog teams or snow machines is not uncommon when the snow is deep. The moose like walking on the packed trail and don’t like to yield the right of way. I once thought I was going to have to take on a cow moose with a 22 pistol but luckily she backed off after about a minute.

 

[Deleted member 74105]

More folks are killed or injured by Moose than Bears in AK.

 

[Vashper]

It's animal

 

[CoElkHunter]

She needs to stick to nursing. She obviously doesn't know WTF she's doing as a sled driver in a wilderness area.

She should have been on a snowmobile and left the dogs at home? I know I would have. LOL

 

[crs]

Some other reports mention a gun, but not the type or caliber.
IMHO, she had the .380 for protection from two legged predators.