With hoof prints stamped on his forehead, Rodney Buffett hopes to hunt again
this weekend
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Posted: Oct 09, 2017 5:01 PM NT Last Updated: Oct 09, 2017 7:23 PM NT
A Newfoundland man was attacked by a bull moose near Grand Bank on Saturday
after shooting it twice. (Radio-Canada)
Rodney Buffett entered the woods on the weekend as the hunter, but emerged
hours later on a medevac chopper as the hunted.
Buffett survived a five-minute battle with a wounded moose near Grand Bank
on Newfoundland’s south coast.
He was released from hospital on Monday morning without any broken bones, or
bottles of moose meat, but did return home to Fortune with a souvenir.
“I’ve got hoof prints in my forehead,” he told the St. John’s Morning Show.
Moose fights back after being shot
The moose-mauling began when Buffett spotted the animal on Saturday morning.
He sized up the 14-point bull before taking two shots, both of which hit the
animal, he said.
The moose went down quickly and put its four legs in the air. An experienced
hunter, Buffet began to approach the animal, as he has done many times
before.
“I thought he was dead. I laid my gun down and turned back to my fiancée and
told her to bring down my knives. When I turned around again he was up.”
The moose lunged toward the hunter and drilled him with its antlers. Buffett
said the moose tossed its head back and flicked him up in the air before he
crashed to the ground.
The moose began stomping on him as Buffett tried to grab hold of it.
“I held onto his antlers and tried to steer him away,” he said. “But it
seemed like forever.”
Buffett’s fiancée watched helplessly from a hill above him, binoculars
pressed to her eyes.
Airlifted to hospital in St. John’s
After Buffett landed some kicks to the moose’s forehead, the animal let him
go and trotted off into the woods.
“I couldn’t move after that,” he said.
Paramedics made a three-kilometre trek through the bush to find Buffett.
They called for help and a medevac helicopter came from St. John’s to
airlift him to hospital.
Buffett received stitches and staples to his head, hands and chest, but was
otherwise intact. He was held in hospital for extensive testing over the
weekend, but said he did not suffer a concussion or internal injuries.
“They tells me I’m hard-headed,” he said.
Despite the terrifying experience, Buffett plans to head back into the woods
as soon as possible. An avid hunter since he was old enough to shoot a gun,
he won’t be deterred by one bad day in the woods.
“I’m hoping to be back moose hunting again about Friday or Saturday with any
luck at all,” he said. “I’d go today, but no, [the doctor] wouldn’t let me.”
While he can joke about the experience now, Buffett was too shaken up to
sleep on Saturday night.
“Every time I closed my eyes I could see the moose coming after me.… It’s
something I’ll never forget.”
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Well, one of the rare times an animal wins, or at least got away. I hope the moose isn’t going to die slowly somewhere. But at least the biped didn’t win.
Does anyone think an animal, especially a wild animal, is going to just let a human kill him willingly? If wildlife can dream, I imagine that they have terrors about the stinking, wild-eyed biped monsters chasing after them with loud guns, muttering obscenities – and they are too shaken up to sleep either!
This is the risk hunters take. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose – and sometimes you get a kick in the head!
They don’t lose often enough to satisfy me. Dang.
I’m worried about the moose. He was shot twice. There was no one to medevac him out.
I know. This article is a little over the top about the fright of the hunter and his hand-wringing fiancé. Why do I have “Ain’t That A Kick in the Head” by Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin running through my mind now? ♪The woods went completely black….♫
Poor marksman
I love it when they fight back.
Damn shame the hunter lived
The moose is in pain and might die slowly from the wounds, but no help for him. Maybe the hunter will receive the grand finale when he goes back out.
I agree with you.
I hope that piece of shit flesh eating parasite gets a final kick in the head and this time just rids the world of his useless existence.
So now he knows how the moose feels being attacked by him! Get a life dude and do something constructive for the world not detrimental to the wild !
Love this moose!