Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 22, 2019

Go GET ’em, big boy! (No lie: moose are REAL bad a**es…)

Having known a few of them, and “trophy hunters”, my money is definitely on the moose.

At least someone is locked and loaded.

Don’t mess with those masses of mooses! (sorry: Stolen from Walt Kelly)

Call the Wiley Bears for back up.

So who’s going to end up with the trophy, and will Lucy take picture’s?

I’m only guessing that Mr. Miller is a staunch animal rights person. I have know many hunters, and NONE of them touched alcohol while in the forest. I’m sure there are some who do, but they are a minority.

Has Wiley ever heard Lorne Elliott’s song “Morris the Moose”?

Oh no! Be careful…..gasp!

Get ’em moose!

Last chapter of Carl Hiaasen’s “Sick Puppy”. One of his best IMO.

I’ve heard it said that a moose encounter on the trail is every Alaskan musher’s worst nightmare.

Seems like whenever a girl gets a big guy for a boyfriend he has a lot of world straightening to do. At least when she is around. Sometimes it does not go well.

When I was a child I was told that the body of a relative was found in the woods with a bullet in him. My former boss will not hunt in Wisconsin because of a near-miss with a deer slug. While driving to my parent’s home in rural southern lower Michigan, I heard on the car radio that a three-year-old child was shot and killed while standing on a couch and looking out the window of a trailer. 2,494 people have been shot in Chicago this year.

“SORRY … I HAD A BEAN BURRITO”

(wonders whether this was in reference to the odor being that of the burrito or the character saying it)

My mother came from a family that did the whole hunting lifestyle: multiple gun safes, deer blind, NRA stickers. She had no issue with this, yet believed that hunters should dress like their prey. This WOULD make it more of a sport. Some days you eat the bear…

Hunters take food home for the freezer. Trophy KILLERS are only interested in proving their “manhood’ by hanging a head on the wall, or stuffing a bear, etc.. Oh yes, when bears or deer etc. ARE armed and able to shot back, ala Wiley, then they earn a claim.(if they win, but again, my money is on the moose.)

You don’t know many hunters, Mr. wrloftis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Q24vbSm30

I have “know” Oh my..

I’ve read more than one story about farmers who found in necessary to spray COW on members of his dairy herd in signal orange paint.

Some time ago my husband and I visited his family in Maine during hunting season. There on the front page of the local paper one morning was a headline something to the effect of “Man loses to Moose.” The hunter had botched his shot, the moose took his opportunity, attacked the hunter and BENT HIS RIFLE BARREL in the process.

Reading from John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley, there’s ample hunter idiocy even before you can stir in the alcohol.

Best kiss old Moose one last time in case the trophy hunter gets lucky….

Karma coming.