What would you have done?

[JEL]

I am struggling with this a bit. Yesterday on my daily hike I started hearing an elk chirp. Loud and often. Obviously a calf in distress. I started hiking towards the sound and saw a coyote run off. When I got to the calf I found the rear end eaten out. No other elk in sight or sound. I know what I did and it was hard but I feel it was right. Nature is a bitch.

 

[Schaaf]

Video didn’t come through right

 

[Dsnow9]

I am struggling with this a bit. Yesterday on my daily hike I started hearing an elk chirp. Loud and often. Obviously a calf in distress. I started hiking towards the sound and saw a coyote run off. When I got to the calf I found what you see in the video. No other elk in sight or sound. I know what I did and it was hard but I feel it was right. Nature is a bitch.

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I don’t think the video loaded correctly

 

[JEL]

I don’t think the video loaded correctly

Ya. I changed to a picture.

 

[Otto Matic]

I don't know what you did, but I can imagine.
...and yes, you did the right thing. As hard as it was, it was the "right" thing.

....and "YES!", Mother Nature can be a real female canine!

 

[RobertD]

I'm still not sure what it is you did? Did you dispatch it?

Edit, Togie is right, don't answer my question.

 

[TOGIE]

if you did dispatch i wouldn't be admitting it on here

 

[MarvB]

Not really any alternative that I can see....

 

[jvanhoy]

Only one option in my opinion. I’m sure you did the right thing as would most of us on here.

 

[7mm08mo]

We are dictated by our own conscience, figure you made the best decision you could. Even though it might have been a hard one to make.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Tough one. I think most everyone would feel like putting it out of its misery would be the right thing to do, legal or not. But it isn't legal (at least in WY). And elk and other critters die like this all the time. It's nature. No easy choice.

 

[elkduds]

Thanks, I think, for making a hard choice and concluding this, I suspect. "Hunters" who are inhumane are just killers.

 

[JustinsDad]

I would have put it out of its misery

 

[F250]

If you killed the calf, you did the right thing.

 

[NR_Hunter]

In this one purely hypothetical situation that could never play out in real life and definitely didn’t happen, I could justify putting a calf elk with this butt eaten down. I feel as if it doesn’t violate the spirit of the law.

 

[Rancho Loco]

"accidental discharge" in the ear.