Warning shots failed on a moose: the case for FRTs and volume of fire

Key points: Warning shots failed moose

• The clip that anchors the video shows a man firing most of a magazine into the dirt to drive a moose off his property; the animal stands there and does not leave, which Noir treats as the cleanest test the warning-shot argument will ever get.
• That moose had no food, no calf and nothing to defend, so mild curiosity was the only thing holding it in place — the lowest bar a warning shot could face, and it still failed.
• A gunshot means nothing to an animal that has never learned what a gun is; noise buys confusion at best, and confused and leaving are two different outcomes.
• The pre-charge sequence is readable and short: side eye, then ears flat, then lip licking, after which the window is roughly two seconds wide on a thousand-pound animal.
• Noir's case for forced reset triggers is about target size rather than marksmanship — a moose is taller than the man in front of it, so 10 to 15 fast rounds beat obsessing over perfect placement, whether from a 300 Blackout Rattler or a soft-shooting MP5.
• He traces the same reasoning to his bison hunt, where he carried a 300 Blackout SBR while everyone around him ran bolt guns and big calibers, and he invites hunters with field data on 300 Blackout penetration to make the counter-case.
• Volume of fire multiplies muzzle blast as well as rounds: a dozen shots from a short barrel in under two seconds is an assault on your own hearing, which is why he runs electronic in-ear protection — a product he beta tested and now sells.

About this Tactics and Training video

Warning shots on animals do not work, and Colion Noir uses a viral clip to prove it: a man empties most of a magazine into the dirt to move a moose off his property and the animal simply watches. He runs that against his earlier bear and cougar videos to argue that noise is not a plan, that the pre-charge tell gives you about two seconds, and that a forced reset trigger putting rounds into a target the size of a refrigerator with legs beats asking three rounds to do fifteen rounds of work.

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