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Elk shoots hunter
Published: 27th September 2007 18:30 CET
Swedish hunter Sven-Erik Rdlund is lucky to be alive after coming within inches of being shot in the head by an elk, Expressen reports.
The curious incident occurred after one of Rdlund's hunting partners had shot and wounded a bull elk in a forest in Ytterdal in northern Sweden.
When two of the dogs accompanying the hunting party approached the injured beast, the hunter decided to hold his fire.
"They stood beside the bull and started barking. I didn't dare shoot because that could have caused the dogs to start fighting," he told Expressen.
But just as he was about to put a leash on one of the dogs, the elk lurched forward and attacked the hunter with his eleven-pronged antlers.
The elk knocked Rdlund to the ground and aimed its antlers at his face. Fortunately, the hunter managed to grab hold of the antlers and steer the animal's head away.
But he was not out of danger yet. In a strange reversal of the usual order, the elk's hind legs came into contact with the rifle trapped under Rdlund's body and a shot was fired.
"It went just past my head," he said.
The tussle with the hunter sucked the last of the energy out of the wounded elk. Both man and beast remained on the forest floor for around 45 minutes before the elk retired to a more private spot and lay down to die.
Sven-Erik Rdlund went to hospital the next day to be treated for chest injuries and a swollen lip. But his brief ordeal left no lasting scars, either physical or emotional.
"I'll be back out hunting again," he told Expressen.
OH DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING.
Yay,first post FTW!
That calvin and hobbes comic made me wish we had a predator that could actually kill US off. The Human population is getting too big... 
We're going to exhaust our food supply and then where will we be? 
Is it wrong that I lol'ed at that story?
Bambi 3: The Revenge. Coming to Disney DVD 2009.
Poor elk died. ;<
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That calvin and hobbes comic made me wish we had a predator that could actually kill US off. The Human population is getting too big...
I agree that a decrease in it would be a good thing, but REPRODUCTION is worse in that case than the LACK OF PREDATORS; personally I'D wish that people would adopt children instead of reproducing, and I wouldn't consider wanting to not be vulnerable to a predator selfish... well certainly at least not to even near the same extent as wanting to raise one's "own" kid...
As for the topic at hand, this kinda thing sounds familiar, as in the whole idea of the "animals strike back" concept, but there's something here I wanna point out; if the "hunter becoming the hunted" could be considered "poetic justice" (not saying it's being called that here but I've heard of that idea being mentioned about things like these) then if humans and animals were really equal wouldn't that also apply to animals? Like for example in the wolf hunting thread when someone said they wish wolves had guns to fight back against their hunters with, since wolves themselves hunt wouldn't wolves being hunted by humans be considered "poetic justice" just as much so?
The movie Bambi is secretly about life in compton!
i always loved that particular calvin and hobbes comic..^^
Doncha know that elk is gonna have quite a story to tell in the afterlife.
I already read that in a newspaper called Metro.
I think that's an interesting article!
Matt.
(^ is my whole message)
This just goes to show you that Mother Nature has as much of a sense of humor as the next anthropomorphic representation of a philosophical concept. xP
Calvin and Hobbes = immediate win.
As far as the (too many people on earth) thing? We need more gay people to prevent overpopulation.
And Sonikku wins as well for being the first person on this board to use that quote as a signature and quote the CORRECT PERSON.
Someone had it as Abe Lincoln for a while. XD
I'm reminded of those old PC games I used to see in stores where the deer hunt you back or you play as a hunting deer or something like that.
