Alaska, Congress
Hunting Moose Is About As Much Sport As Shooting Cows
Palin and her kill
Sarah Palin’s favorite food is reported to be moose stew, but one of the allegations against her ex-brother-in-law, the state trooper, is that he killed a moose without a license. Some sources say that, at the time, Palin was not so outraged over this illegal act. Reportedly, she helped eat the illegal moose.
Update: I’m informed in the comments that this poor moose-like animal is actually a caribou, which is a North American reindeer. Now we know where Palin stands on the War on Xmas.
We didn’t have caribou or moose in the Blue Ridge of the Great Smokeys where I grew up. Full disclosure, however, there was an Elks Club.
That’s not a moose. It’s a caribou. Sry.
It depends. If you are driven to where the CARIBOU are, then you just step out of your vehicle and shoot one. Heck, you can even drive along and “road hunt” if you can’t afford a guide. BUT, if you slog out into the wilderness on foot, it can be a HELLUVA lot of work, especially if you kill one of these big beasts, as you have to gut it and haul it in. If there are no roads you have to skin and QUARTER the damn thing and haul it out by hand (or pack animal if you are fortuate enough to have one).
So where is the “sport” in that? Now, if you could find a strain of moose that was smart enough to use a rifle to protect itself from the Sarah Palins of the world; now that would be sport. I wonder how many hunters would hunt animals if the animals could shoot back?