Hitting a Moose
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Hitting a Moose
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#2"What Happens When You Actually Hit a Moose? Volvo Has a Moose-Strike Test for That." (2018)
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a22604428/what-happens...
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#3Deer cause enough damage, and they're tiny compared to a moose.
I'd much rather be bit by a møøse than hit a møøse.
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#4Deer cause enough damage, and they're tiny compared to a moose. I'd much rather be bit by a møøse than hit a møøse.
It's not just their mass and general size. Moose have very long legs so, in a collision, a lot of the front car parts designed to absorb energy can end up largely passing under the bulk of the moose and upper structure offers relatively little protection.
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#5Deer cause enough damage, and they're tiny compared to a moose. I'd much rather be bit by a møøse than hit a møøse.
A full-grown bull moose can run up to 35 mph. So, unless you are traveling faster than that, I don’t think it makes a difference who hits who. ;)
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#6It's definitely no joke! When I hiked half the Appalachian Trail and eventually made it to Maine, a shuttle driver that came out to pick us up from a nearby hostel talked about how he'd lost several friends to car accidents due to moose collisions. He was intensely interested in arriving back at the hostel before dark.
He also had some sort of decoration made out of moose scat decoration hanging from the rearview mirror and was also trying to convince us passengers of the many uses of moose scats - skin remedies, even ingestion. But that's another story!
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#7Deer cause enough damage, and they're tiny compared to a moose. I'd much rather be bit by a møøse than hit a møøse.
A full-grown bull moose can run up to 35 mph. So, unless you are traveling faster than that, I don’t think it makes a difference who hits who. ;)
Having seen a moose truck through five foot deep snow like it wasn't even there I can attest being hit by a moose is a one way ticket to your maker.
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#8Deer cause enough damage, and they're tiny compared to a moose. I'd much rather be bit by a møøse than hit a møøse.
A Møøse once bit my sister.
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#9“The winch was rated to handle the moose’s weight—roughly 1,500 pounds”
Permit me on this wonderful Saturday morning to be tangentially pedantic.
I imagine the true “weight” of dragging a moose across the ground is a lot more than 1500lbs by probably many multiples?
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#10Deer cause enough damage, and they're tiny compared to a moose. I'd much rather be bit by a møøse than hit a møøse.
A full-grown bull moose can run up to 35 mph. So, unless you are traveling faster than that, I don’t think it makes a difference who hits who. ;)
Now imagine what that moose could do if it was an _educated_ moose?