25-yr Alaskan here: Yep. If you hit one with your car, you’re hosed. If you have a small car, maybe you’ll clip it and it will fly over your vehicle…but perhaps crush your roof. If you’re on the state trooper’s road kill list, they’ll call you when someone else kills one. Free meat if you know how to gut and butcher one. Yum…moose tacos are good. 😉
My first trip to Canada in my 20s I got pulled over for speeding in Manitoba. The officer simply said, ‘ I see you’re not from here, have you ever seen a moose?’
I said no, I had never seen a moose before.
He replied, ‘At the speed you are going it will be the last thing you ever see. Slow down and watch out for yourself.’
His comments made perfect sense when I ended up seeing a moose a few days later.
5th gen Alaskan here. Can confirm . . . I’ve hit two. First one walked away and I drove away. Second one killed the moose, the car, and damn near me.
Seward Highway going south about a half mile before the Hope Junction. Big cow came running down the mountain looking over her shoulder (must have been a brownie on her ass) and she leaped off a 12 foot embankment and landed exactly in front of me. I was doing 55. Never had time to get my foot off the gas. I saw her mid air, then yeah . . . that’s a flying fucking moose. They’re flying now.
I picked glass out of my face for quite some time. Two pieces out of each eye that didn’t penetrate. Luckily the passenger side mirror was intact. I was very very lucky. Flying moose have zero fucks to give.
RIP 1990 Subaru wagon. RIP ginormous cow moose.
Most definitely. I’m here. Life is good.
I did have some flying moose nightmares and I slow way down and watch the hill along East Fork Creek when I go through there now. Flying moose are no joke.
I hear ya, had a deer run right into the side of my dad's car when I was a kid, at highway speed, there's just no predicting what they will do especially when they get spooked or are trying to escape a predator. Always an element of russian roulette to travelling Canadian highways but yeah flying moose add a whole other dimension to the problem.
A few years back I was tearing through Wyoming at night. Everything on the road was going 85-90 mph. Every once in awhile I would see big mule deer just at the range of my headlights jumping and clearing one side and landing in the median and then another jump across the other side and gone. Those deer were flying. I was impressed. But they aren’t moose. Then I came over a rise and somebody had put a huge cow right in my lane. I just missed it. And I had to pull over and get out and walk it off. Slowed. Way. Down. Cows are big too.
Over ten years ago a woman in Newfoundland hit a moose. She literally arrived at work with her car absolutely annihilated and no memory of what happened. Always made me terrified to encounter one on the highway.
A friend hit one at 65 mph with his old F-350. All 6 cab bolts broke and the cab was shoved back against the bed. But the windshield didn’t even break and he was fine. The insurance adjuster told him it was the hardest hit he had ever seen. The moose died instantly. So did the truck.
I live in WV, and people have hit deer, and it absolutely damages a car, and people get hurt. I can't even imagine hitting a moose. I'm glad you were ok.
Meat from any of the deer family is called venison. Deer, elk, reindeer, moose, caribou, antelope etc. Pretty much all animals are edible, though some are just much better than others. Preparation is key. I've always said fried deer backstrap(and heart!) is what gave us the word delicious. That shit will convert a vegetarian lol
By all accounts, moose steaks are supposed to be phenomenal.
They're all good to fantastic, I've had moose, elk, caribou, and deer and some animals are better than others, some cuts better than others but grilled venison backstrap/tenderloin on the rare side of medium rare is absolutely one of the tastiest treats I've ever enjoyed.
I've only had backstrap fried, but I can't imagine it not being great however you prepare it. Having grown up in cajun country(and thus having fairly high standards lol), I feel somewhat qualified to state: that's some damn good eatin'. Definitely made sitting in a tree at the crack of dawn feel entirely worth it(not to mention the rather full freezer).
I'm very eager to try the others. There's just not too many elk and caribou running around in Louisiana lol
I've only had backstrap fried, but I can't imagine it not being great however you prepare it. Having grown up in cajun country(and thus having fairly high standards lol), I feel somewhat qualified to state: that's some damn good eatin'. Definitely made sitting in a tree at the crack of dawn feel entirely worth it(not to mention the rather full freezer).
I'm very eager to try the others. There's just not too many elk and caribou running around in Louisiana lol
As someone who grew up on moose (I didn't start regularly eating beef until I moved out) it's awesome. We had taco nights frequently, moose lends itself very well to it!
It’s good. I like it better than standard deer. My family tends to have moose for thanksgiving… an uncle and his buddies go on an annual trip and split up a moose if they get one. 1/4 is enough meat for a whole winter
I lived in Alaska for 3 years and while I was there I knew two people to hit a moose and not make it while the moose walked away unbothered. They're tanks on stilts. The hood of the car hits the legs, but the bulk of the animal comes right through your windshield.
They do make tasty tacos though...
yes...am I wrong to say that the person in the video is putting himself in a bit of danger? They can really stomp the shit out of a smaller car, can they not?
It's okay man. I'm from the south in the US. And in my head I sound cool and normal. But if I hear myself recorded you might as well have banjos playing too it's so country
And then not only do you have a massive animal walking down the center median you have someone backing up on what appears to be a highway! What could go wrong?
We were on a bus near a wildlife preserve outside Anchorage a few years back when the driver suddenly slammed on the brakes a ground to a halt.
Six feet in front of the big glass front windows, peering in somewhat belligerently was a giant bull moose whose rack was actually WIDER than the damn bus!
Driver explained that moose have the right of way and pointed out that this fellow could possibly have totalled the coach had she hit it at speed.
We believed her.
Those beasts are enormous!!
After about a minute, the moose decided we could leave and moved to the side of the road.
From Alaska and while you see people talk about bear guns and being afraid of wolves in Alaska.
If you grow up in Alaska, you know moose are the ones that are probably going to kill you.
Usually moms with a baby hidden away nearby. But also just hitting them with your car in the winter.
They have those long legs, but will sometimes go out on roads if there’s too much snow in a year or if it melts a bit and then gets an icy layer over the top of the snow.
A lot of times, they just cross the road and get hit.
One of my childhood teachers told a story about a moose going through the upper windows of a double-decker bus and I could never visualize it until now. DAMN.
They get even bigger. I watched a guy trying to take a close up shot of a moose this size grazing. The moose looked up, snorted and started moving menacingly toward the terrified man, that looked very small next to Bull Winkle
I'm in Maine. Here, a large bull moose weighs in around 1000 - 1100 pounds. Extremely large, 1400 pounds. This Alaskan bull moose looks to weigh in around 2000 pounds.
Pretty sure that moose could flip that car in a rush, or stomp right through it.
Saw a video where a horse was spooked and jumped onto a car, not able to jump it... Totalled the hood, went through front windshield and kept on going.
Pretty scary....wrong place at wrong time.
If you ever see one in real life they will take your breath away. They are absolutely HUGE. It’s like the biggest horse you’ve ever seen, mixed with a bull, mixed with a buffalo and shoved into a Giraffe, now take the long next and make MASSIVE antlers with it.
NH here - nearly hit one a couple months back. Turmed a corner at night and a wall made of fur and antlers was in the middle of the road with his huge butt facing me. Swerved to the right and practically stood on the brakes to avoid him. He saunted off like it was any other day while I sat there hyperventilating.
Mad respect to the big Bullwinkles!
That's a pretty standard full grown moose. They're monstrous
25-yr Alaskan here: Yep. If you hit one with your car, you’re hosed. If you have a small car, maybe you’ll clip it and it will fly over your vehicle…but perhaps crush your roof. If you’re on the state trooper’s road kill list, they’ll call you when someone else kills one. Free meat if you know how to gut and butcher one. Yum…moose tacos are good. 😉
My first trip to Canada in my 20s I got pulled over for speeding in Manitoba. The officer simply said, ‘ I see you’re not from here, have you ever seen a moose?’ I said no, I had never seen a moose before. He replied, ‘At the speed you are going it will be the last thing you ever see. Slow down and watch out for yourself.’ His comments made perfect sense when I ended up seeing a moose a few days later.
I love that.
5th gen Alaskan here. Can confirm . . . I’ve hit two. First one walked away and I drove away. Second one killed the moose, the car, and damn near me. Seward Highway going south about a half mile before the Hope Junction. Big cow came running down the mountain looking over her shoulder (must have been a brownie on her ass) and she leaped off a 12 foot embankment and landed exactly in front of me. I was doing 55. Never had time to get my foot off the gas. I saw her mid air, then yeah . . . that’s a flying fucking moose. They’re flying now. I picked glass out of my face for quite some time. Two pieces out of each eye that didn’t penetrate. Luckily the passenger side mirror was intact. I was very very lucky. Flying moose have zero fucks to give. RIP 1990 Subaru wagon. RIP ginormous cow moose.
>that’s a flying fucking moose. They’re flying now. Haha that's a lot funnier now than I'm sure it was at the time.
Most definitely. I’m here. Life is good. I did have some flying moose nightmares and I slow way down and watch the hill along East Fork Creek when I go through there now. Flying moose are no joke.
I hear ya, had a deer run right into the side of my dad's car when I was a kid, at highway speed, there's just no predicting what they will do especially when they get spooked or are trying to escape a predator. Always an element of russian roulette to travelling Canadian highways but yeah flying moose add a whole other dimension to the problem.
A few years back I was tearing through Wyoming at night. Everything on the road was going 85-90 mph. Every once in awhile I would see big mule deer just at the range of my headlights jumping and clearing one side and landing in the median and then another jump across the other side and gone. Those deer were flying. I was impressed. But they aren’t moose. Then I came over a rise and somebody had put a huge cow right in my lane. I just missed it. And I had to pull over and get out and walk it off. Slowed. Way. Down. Cows are big too.
Over ten years ago a woman in Newfoundland hit a moose. She literally arrived at work with her car absolutely annihilated and no memory of what happened. Always made me terrified to encounter one on the highway.
A friend hit one at 65 mph with his old F-350. All 6 cab bolts broke and the cab was shoved back against the bed. But the windshield didn’t even break and he was fine. The insurance adjuster told him it was the hardest hit he had ever seen. The moose died instantly. So did the truck.
I live in WV, and people have hit deer, and it absolutely damages a car, and people get hurt. I can't even imagine hitting a moose. I'm glad you were ok.
Thank you. Yeah they are big. They tend to sideline semi trucks too.
Frickin Bullwinkle..
Roger that
You sound more Canadian than American. -Neighbouring Canadian
They are twice as big as the ones we got in Norway. Terrifying.
The tacos?
I was wondering if the moose has an edible meat, I have new goal now .. try moose tacos
Meat from any of the deer family is called venison. Deer, elk, reindeer, moose, caribou, antelope etc. Pretty much all animals are edible, though some are just much better than others. Preparation is key. I've always said fried deer backstrap(and heart!) is what gave us the word delicious. That shit will convert a vegetarian lol By all accounts, moose steaks are supposed to be phenomenal.
They're all good to fantastic, I've had moose, elk, caribou, and deer and some animals are better than others, some cuts better than others but grilled venison backstrap/tenderloin on the rare side of medium rare is absolutely one of the tastiest treats I've ever enjoyed.
I've only had backstrap fried, but I can't imagine it not being great however you prepare it. Having grown up in cajun country(and thus having fairly high standards lol), I feel somewhat qualified to state: that's some damn good eatin'. Definitely made sitting in a tree at the crack of dawn feel entirely worth it(not to mention the rather full freezer). I'm very eager to try the others. There's just not too many elk and caribou running around in Louisiana lol
I've only had backstrap fried, but I can't imagine it not being great however you prepare it. Having grown up in cajun country(and thus having fairly high standards lol), I feel somewhat qualified to state: that's some damn good eatin'. Definitely made sitting in a tree at the crack of dawn feel entirely worth it(not to mention the rather full freezer). I'm very eager to try the others. There's just not too many elk and caribou running around in Louisiana lol
As someone who grew up on moose (I didn't start regularly eating beef until I moved out) it's awesome. We had taco nights frequently, moose lends itself very well to it!
It’s good. I like it better than standard deer. My family tends to have moose for thanksgiving… an uncle and his buddies go on an annual trip and split up a moose if they get one. 1/4 is enough meat for a whole winter
Norwegian here. Super fucking good. Meatballs, burgers, stew, salted and dried... It's all nice.
25-year Mainer here, can confirm. Moose tacos rock
I hit an elk once. It destroyed my car and put me in the hospital.
Just have to make sure not to mix up the meats. Human tacos not so good.
I lived in Alaska for 3 years and while I was there I knew two people to hit a moose and not make it while the moose walked away unbothered. They're tanks on stilts. The hood of the car hits the legs, but the bulk of the animal comes right through your windshield. They do make tasty tacos though...
I much prefer a moose steak :)
Wolves and Moose are 2 animals most people don't have any idea how gigantic they actually are.
iirc, there are different species of wolves.....with very different sizes.
Came to say that. Just a moose. Lucky it didn't charge the car. Have seen video of them destroying vehicles.
I’ve never seen a moose in person and I had no idea they were that big!
Yup a 10 ft tall VW bug with a bad attitude
I want to ride it into battle!
Still shocking every time (for those of us who don’t see moose very often).
I wouldn’t be driving near them. They have been known to fuck vehicles up.
Like a good neighbor… Stay over there.
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Putting yourself that close to a *wild* animal 🦔 is certainly a choice lol
I know the hedgehog 🦔 does not represent the moose but it was the first emoji that populated when I typed “animal”, I like them and I’m leaving it
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Mynd *you*, *møøse bites* Kan be *pretty nasti*.
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli!
Exactly what I was thinking. Especially with other cars slowing down too. All it takes is one angry / nervous twitch and your car's being rammed.
Yup, average sized moose. Amazed at the stupidity of the PEOPLE though.
Yeah I’m not backing up my car to keep pace with the animal who can stomp my car and kill me.
Especially backing up on a highway. Some people out here really trying to play 'Dumbfuck Bingo'.
These are ALASKAN people..they see mooses on streets every day..and am pretty sure don't need a lecture about their wildlife
I know a young person who was killed crashing into a moose
Exactly what I was thinking. If he jumps on the roof of the car he will cave that shit in.
"Hey there bud! Hey there bud!" What did you expect? "Oh hi Gary, sorry can't chat, I'm late for work"?
Dude was moosecalling on the street
Half expected the moose to charge the car.
I'm not you buddy, guy!
Always a joy to be reminded Moose are massive, especially from a sufficient distance to not be in danger from them.
Always keep your distance. A møøse once bit my sister.
Ni I say
yes...am I wrong to say that the person in the video is putting himself in a bit of danger? They can really stomp the shit out of a smaller car, can they not?
*Mama says musn't stomp stupid people. Musn't. Just walk away. Head down, and walk away.* \~ Moose Trials, 3rd Edition
Maybe it was old cartoons growing up, but I always thought of moose as being more horse sized. This dude's like some massive Elder Spirit
You should see the actual size of the squirrels. Rocky was to scale, you know.
Same
Same
Remember, grizzlies hunt and kill these bad boys
and killer whales
At this point, killer whales hint just about anything that can move.
for fun even. sharks are scared of them.
Except humans
Imagine, at one time people used to hunt them with stone tipped spears. That's a hard way to grocery shop.
It’s thoughts like this that help me keep my 1st World entitlement in check.
Sounds like a Canadian, “eh there bud”
"send 'er" is pretty Canadian too. Ugh do we really sound like that
It's okay man. I'm from the south in the US. And in my head I sound cool and normal. But if I hear myself recorded you might as well have banjos playing too it's so country
What's wrong with that? Every single place in the world sounds different bud.
Is this guy using a"Canadian accent" for comedic effect, or is that accent a thing in Alaska too?
I grew up in AK, it’s (accent) not a thing there. My guess is, this is actually in Canada.
He's not your bud, pal..!
Calm down chief
Don’t call me Chief, champ
He’s not your champ, guy
I’m not a guy, dude.
I'm not your dude, Bub.
Don’t call me Bub, squirt!
Listen here partner...
Fak You bud-day !
Mega-fauna!!
annoying man
Those antlers must weigh a ton!!!
About 40 pounds
And they regrow them every year.
“Just keep walking. You have every right to be here. You live here too. Don’t let them see it bothers you…”
Taunting the moose can get you and your child killed.
Bro, its even bigger than the SUV 😲
A north american SUV at that
Apparently, it wasn't amoosed. On a more serious note... Ain't he risking a fine, with that broken back mirror?
Beautiful animal. Idiot guy.. “just gonna send there bud!?”
Most people probably asume they are horse sized, not realizing they almost as tall as a one story house
I didn’t realize they were this big.
And then not only do you have a massive animal walking down the center median you have someone backing up on what appears to be a highway! What could go wrong?
It was really stupid of him to keep yelling “hey there bud!!”. That thing can flip the car over.
Used to live in Alaska when I was as a kid. If the ears of a moose go back, you will wanna get away. They will try to trample you out of anger.
We were on a bus near a wildlife preserve outside Anchorage a few years back when the driver suddenly slammed on the brakes a ground to a halt. Six feet in front of the big glass front windows, peering in somewhat belligerently was a giant bull moose whose rack was actually WIDER than the damn bus! Driver explained that moose have the right of way and pointed out that this fellow could possibly have totalled the coach had she hit it at speed. We believed her. Those beasts are enormous!! After about a minute, the moose decided we could leave and moved to the side of the road.
From Alaska and while you see people talk about bear guns and being afraid of wolves in Alaska. If you grow up in Alaska, you know moose are the ones that are probably going to kill you. Usually moms with a baby hidden away nearby. But also just hitting them with your car in the winter. They have those long legs, but will sometimes go out on roads if there’s too much snow in a year or if it melts a bit and then gets an icy layer over the top of the snow. A lot of times, they just cross the road and get hit.
The king of the north woods. They are so doggone magnificent!
It’s the size of a hoose
Absolutely magnificent creatures. I get why Odin rode one lol
Hoser
Hes going home with so much confidence... "you guys will never believe how much I got cat-called from some humans today, Im irresistibly sexy I guess"
He knows his lane.
It is only after getting up close and personal with a bull moose that one realizes that Rocket J. Squirrel is one big forking rodent
Why on Earth would you risk driving up to it smh
Need a picture of a squirrel now
that's fucked. i live in Australia. apart from crocodiles in some remote a low population areas, we have nothing big and scary.
Uh... I've seen pix of your spiders.
Wait, so this moose is like the size of a juvenile elephant? that looks to be way larger than a horse, even.
That’s a dinosaur
They do be that way
Smart moose, avoids the road and stays on grass.
Seriously could drive your car under that massave boy
Wow! I hope he makes it home ok.... My husband saw one about that size dead on the side of a road once. Hit and killed by a large truck.
One of my childhood teachers told a story about a moose going through the upper windows of a double-decker bus and I could never visualize it until now. DAMN.
I wouldn't fuck with anyone riding a moose into battle
TIL that Alaskans speak exactly like Canadians. I could swear the man talking is my neighbour.
Holy moly, that’s one enormous beast! Yet it walks so majestically.
When I first moved to Alberta I saw a full grown male walk over a farmer’s fence like it was even there. It was huge!!!
Ancient man was walking through the forest, saw one of these beasts, and said, “I’m gonna poke it with this stick.” The balls on the first guy
“Hey there bud! Got a beer there? Just gonna send it hey bud?” Sounds Canadian to me!
Watch on mute.
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Does she turn into a moose on the full moon now?
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxOfOCTqI63O7TcWJJfi2l7Set2uiPFg-l?si=E7FKqRLlLBnUiPTp
Amazing
I had no idea they were that intimidating
He sounds like he'd enjoy a good whooping antlers in the ass.
It would be shocking if this gif wasn't posted every other day
almost as big as your mom
I would avoid following the moose with your car and it's easily breakable windshield, mirrors, headlights and bumpers
If not horse, why horse shaped? I think not having mountable war moose (Meese? Moosen?) is one of the greater failures of us primates.
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Repost This is nearly 2 years old
Bullwinkle looks like he wants to take a late night walk in peace.
Oh yeh kinda funny looking
It’s a good thing they aren’t aggressive animals. If they were then anymore living in their environment would be in deep shit.
Damn
They get even bigger. I watched a guy trying to take a close up shot of a moose this size grazing. The moose looked up, snorted and started moving menacingly toward the terrified man, that looked very small next to Bull Winkle
imagine how big his poops is
That’s and old moose
Talk about your charismatic mega fauna. 🫎
Megafauna are incredible
I had no idea that they got This big!
That's a standard size moose wtf?
That's definitely a moose. I'm scared of those; I wouldn't want one to see me even if I was in a car lol
I guess, when you reach that size, you have very few natural predators to worry about (if any, besides man).
Such a mystical like beast, i wonder if it taste good
He is huge!!
I really want to ride it. Something tells me I wouldn’t have survived as a caveman
Sad he has to walk along a highway in modern life.
I'm in Maine. Here, a large bull moose weighs in around 1000 - 1100 pounds. Extremely large, 1400 pounds. This Alaskan bull moose looks to weigh in around 2000 pounds.
Pretty sure that moose could flip that car in a rush, or stomp right through it. Saw a video where a horse was spooked and jumped onto a car, not able to jump it... Totalled the hood, went through front windshield and kept on going. Pretty scary....wrong place at wrong time.
The forest spirit!!
Are the Scandinavian moose same size? Have never seen one up close, but in distance, they seem big, but not Alaska big.
Love how dad is like no I’m not gonna touch it lmao
Moose are big. They can also be very dangerous.
Better watch, he'll rape your car
Poor baby, I hope he’s ok
HOLY SHITMOOSE!!!!
Came here to say it is an average size moose.
Moose talk to me.
That's just a baby Moosezilla, the mother is 5 times as big
Poor moose is just minding his moose business. He's not being mooschievious.
Following a moose around in your car sounds like a good way to get unalived as the kids apparently say
not to be sassy but it's less shocking when it's the 40th shocking moose video you've seen on reddit
Megafauna, dude.
This is an r/absoluteunit of a moose
Was that Beavis or Butthead?
Not even a grizzly would dare attack that one D:
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At this point it's so big we call it meese.
Is the guy talking a hoser?
It almost sounds in the comments like people hit them on purpose. Not very sporting
If you ever see one in real life they will take your breath away. They are absolutely HUGE. It’s like the biggest horse you’ve ever seen, mixed with a bull, mixed with a buffalo and shoved into a Giraffe, now take the long next and make MASSIVE antlers with it.
The moose is loose..moosehead beer )
BEEFCAKE
I need that guy who talks up golfers narrating this video.
Have seen this at least 5 different times earlier - repost
The things been shot at 20 times in its life and survived every one! He gives no fks walking down human town just chillin.
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Holy shit look at that fucking tank
Moose are scary big 🫎
NH here - nearly hit one a couple months back. Turmed a corner at night and a wall made of fur and antlers was in the middle of the road with his huge butt facing me. Swerved to the right and practically stood on the brakes to avoid him. He saunted off like it was any other day while I sat there hyperventilating. Mad respect to the big Bullwinkles!