Turkey hunter attacked by female moose with calves near Blackfoot

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Turkey hunter attacked by female moose with calves near Blackfoot

BLACKFOOT, Idaho (KIFI) - Late Friday afternoon, a turkey hunter was attacked by a female moose on a section of Bureau of Land Management land bordering the Snake River downstream of Wadsworth Island, a few miles south of Blackfoot city limits.  The individual was hunting turkeys when he inadvertently startled a female moose with her twin calves. The moose began to charge, and though he fired two warning shots at the ground in front of her, she …