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“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?
"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...
As you drive thru the dark road deer look at you from the sides, that ones are not the problem as one can see them. After several hours you pass a big dead male moose on the side of the road. Its big antlers are covered with yellow police ribbon that turns bright as your car illuminates it. You think that you are lucky to have not been there when it decided to cross, someone else got that unlucky surprise. You feel even more uneasy for the rest of the trip.
“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?
People don't realize how truly massive moose are. They are literal alien monsters that tower over. First time I saw one I was shocked. They just step over fences like they aren't even there.
I was enjoying the beginning of this article so I wanted to save it as a PDF for review later when I would be off-grid BUT NOEP CANNOT so goodbye
Deer 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. ;)
As for collisions, the highway the author was driving on has a speed limit of 55 or 65 MPH in most areas, and people often treat speed limits as suggestions. I had a near miss with a moose on the same highway, after which I would suggest taking the speed limit seriously.
The person driving the car in front of me survived unscathed, without any injury. The car (2010's VW Passat) very likely was a loss though. This just tells how good modern cars are with these kinds of crashes.
In Finland there are about 1000-2000 moose crashes every year, but only around 1-4 people die from them.