Forget about the bears. It's these guys ya really gotta look out for!
Man Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries After Moose Attack In Northern Colorado | Cowboy State Daily

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Just getting into bow range of one seems suicidal

LOL!

This looks like fake news.

He's armed with nothing but a bottle of beer.

I think that’s a picture of some other genius, probably at Yellowstone, that they used to illustrate the caption. 😁

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A moose is a big target to miss. They tend to stomp on anything that annoys them. In AK, it was not uncommon for them to stomp dogs into mush.

City people must think mooses are all like Bullwinkle.

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Moose are not all like Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle had a deadpan delivery and an agent.

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I'll bet it would be real interesting if he entered the moose in the county fair.

Hard to imagine just how big a moose really is until you stand right next to one. Visited an animal rehab center in Anchorage and you were separated from the moose by a chain link fence. They had a pile of branches there you could use to feed the moose. I'm 6'5" and I had to reach UP to the moose to feed it.

Fishing in Canada with my son's when nature called and I had to get off the boat to take care of business. I climbed up the rock's into the wood's and was squatting next to a tree when I heard something huffing and puffing and stomping it's feet behind me. As I tried to turn so I could see what it was, hoping it wasn't a bear, my son's started yelling to me from the boat that there was a moose behind me. Needless to say I took off running back to the boat and never looked back.

I’ve been chased by a cow with a calf and cornered by a bull on a sandbar.
I stay far away from em. My lucks been used up lol

From the link in the first post:

...Earlier this year, a snowmobiler in Canada attempted to pet a moose and was subsequently stomped repeatedly.

The snowmobiler suffered multiple broken bones and was hospitalized for more than a week after the incident...

Sorry.......I have to call BMP.

(Bullmoosepucky
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And this is one of the reasons I use a rifle to hunt instead of a bow. I admire the skill but.........

I bet it is interesting to work during the rut!

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Heard a story about a Moose and a Horse up in Wyoming who both wanted the same Haystack.
End game, the Moose won.
The Horse and his blood was scattered around the haypile.

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When I was up at the NWTC, in the bush if we woke to a grizzly in the camp we'd make a bunch of noise and it'd usually scurry off. If we woke to a moose in the camp, everyone got real quite in hopes that it would wander off on its own and not flatten everything in sight.

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I hunt that same unit, but only during rifle seasons. I don't want to get within bow range of a belligerent critter that size.

If you're looking for even more excitement than moose during archery season, you can get it at a few of our ski resorts:

I’ve seen em on Rollins/Corona across from Winter Park several times.
Ski fast lol

Next you hold the bow and I’ll take the picture.

Plenty of moose fall to archery. This guy did something wrong--or foolish.

My wife and I trekked into a high mountain lake in Idaho probably 1974. It had giant trees and thick undergrowth. We made a sweat lodge dome with branches and covered it in plastic. We heated rocks to red hot and then moved them into the sweat lodge. Our core temperatures shot up and we were able to jump into that near frozen mountain lake and get out before hypothermia set in.
There was no place to pitch a tent so we laid out our double bag on the trail we walked in on. We put our head right up to a 4 foot drop feeling snuggled in and ready for sleep. We knew better than to be anywhere near the trail, but we really had no choice.
We woke the next morning from something snorting right above us. The first thing I noticed were the hooves hanging over the 4 foot edge of the ledge. I've been around horses all my life, but I had never seen anything this big. I hadn't even imagined it could exist. Those hooves were more than a foot across. I found myself admiring them. They were beautiful and close-up.
But as my gaze continued upward I saw the biggest head of my life. Unlike a horse, the face was extremely long; and I mean extreme. So much so that it didn't look natural. We spent lot of time backpacking in Montana and I knew what backcountry folks said about Moose being the most dangerous and aggressive animal in the woods. Our Moose just started slobbering on us. Being on your back and looking upward surely must have exaggerated the size, but I can tell you it was GINORMOUS.

And then he stomped us both to death. Well, actually that was just what we thought at the moment.
But that big beauty backed up and walked around us through heavy brush to get to the lake and start chomping on the green mossy stuff around the edge. We watched for an hour being as quiet and still as we could. He eventually just walked off through the brush like King Kong. Wow!
We had a grizzly encounter one night on the Blackfoot Reservation that was more terrifying; but the Moose was one of those "Thank you, God, for letting me experience something so beautiful and spectacular". Without dying from it.

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… and a squirrel

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we were driving thru one of those wildlife places in Colorado years age. A couple in a BMS 318 in front of us were feeding something to a cow moose. They decided they'd had enough moose slobber and closed the window....they forgot about the sunroof. The moose just leaned over and dropped her head right down into the car via the open sunfoof.

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Moose are very unpredictable

True. Mr Moose was always getting the best of the Captain.

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You are old. The Bunny Rabbit got the best of both of them.

Moose are big and dangerous. I saw a couple of them on a trip to Alaska. You realize how big when they are next to a tree, and they look right over it at you. Man can they cover ground quick just walking along. They are a Clydesdale with horns and a bad attitude.

We don't get huge animals in England, at least not in the wild. I recall being pretty impressed by the Shire horse at the local show. But I didn't get handle on how big animals could get until I went to a place that had White Rhinos. On that day they were in their shed, and when I walked in the change of light caught me out. Where were the rhinos? Then I realized that the extensive rough surface I was seeing was the side of one rhino. Good grief, it looked the size of a big U-Haul rental van.

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About ten years ago I was standing on a sandbar in Cache La Poudre facing downstream changing a fly. I sensed something behind me,turned around and it was a bull wading through the shallows towards me. There was nowhere to go but into a deep fast sweeper wearing chest waders. When he was about 20 yards away I raised my arms and rod over my head waving them slowly. He finally stopped at ten yards and stared for the longest time,turned around and started feeding . I snuck past him and climbed the bluff up to the truck,shoved a pistol in my belt,grabbed a camera (nobody’s going to believe this) and had a quick smoke
I snuck back down and got this shot as he was leaving
Two months earlier I had stumbled across a cow and calf while bushwhacking through thick timber on Corona pass and she chased me through the trees for about 50 yards lol

This moose business got me thinking. I had a friend, much older than me, a Norwegian immigrant, who had some experience moose hunting. In fact, he was enthusiastic about it. He was just a little fellow, very slight - but wirey. Through most of his 80s, he was walking two miles a day and cutting firewood with a bow saw, for exercise.

Odd had killed maybe half-dozen moose in his lifetime (here in the US and Canada). One day we were talking about outdoor stuff and he told me had sold his old moose rifle (a .30/06 of some sort) and was making a new one - in 6.5x55 - for his next Canadian hunt.

He had bought Swedish Mauser, shortened the barrel, thrown away everything he didn’t want, and got a local gunsmith to recrown it and drill and tap the receiver for scope mounting. The stock he was literally making from scratch from a piece of black walnut he had bought for next to nothing. He had dried, shaped, inletted, and finished it himself. Subsequently I saw the finished rifle and it was very respectable. He thought he “might have $50 or so” in it.

I asked him why he would ditch the ‘06 in favor of the much lighter 6.5 as a moose weapon. He said he usually shot a moose three or four times and he saw no sense in taking all that recoil, and wasting all that lead and powder since he could just as easily shoot three or four times with the 6.5 to accomplish the same thing, probably wasting less meat. Obviously, my friend was a little on the “thrifty” side.

He planted a couple of ornamental pieces in my yard, for a wedding gift. I think of him when I walk by them. I imagine he planned it that way. A very fine friend up until the last few months, when his health deteriorated and he was taken away to die in the care of his son, who lived in Colorado. The moose are safe from Odd now - at least the ones here on Earth.

I hope I haven’t taken this thread too far off the beaten path, and if I have, I apologize in advance. Sometime you just need to tell a story, even if telling it really doesn’t accomplish much.

Arjay / Rich - those are some pretty nice Shiras bulls. If there was a season and he was in my yard, he would be in trouble. I have been told moose is really tasty.

These guys are so big lol. Years ago my brother in law,his little brother and I backpacked into the flat tops wilderness during bow season for elk. It took most of the day to get in there and there were elk all around us. After the morning hunt the next day he asked me if I really wanted to hump an elk out of there. I burst out laughing,we packed up our camp and headed out. His brother was disgusted lol

It's much like beef, IMO, not near as good as caribou.

That was Jim Jenkins who told me the tale of the Moose and Horse.
He saw the Carnage on a neighbors ranch up near Pinedale, WY.
His Moose story goes like this. At that time, the 60s a lot of Westerner’s piled hay.
I had never seen that down South and I was fascinated by the homemade swinging log-fork stackers.
Jim thought that cows should not be allowed direct access to the hay.
So his cows were fenced off from the hay and he daily used a horse drawn sled to move hay from the pile to the cows.
He said that the track would get frozen so after a while you just around the estimated rut.
So one day he’s headed for the hay and a Bull Moose is standing on his track.
His horses are going crazy! He’s got his rifle but he really don’t want to shoot that moose.
Finally the moose tires and departs.
Do the Ranchers up that way still stack that loose hay?
Jim? Last I heard he’s down in Paonia, Colorado.

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The Scandinavians don't buy into the Col Studler koolaid of .30 caliber or nothing. Neither do I. 6.5x55 has excellent sectional density and penetrates like fury. It is a the standard meat getter in those lands.

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I used to hunt elk in the Routt NF west of Kremmling Colorado. A guy in our bunch had an old Honda 90 3 wheeler he rode in an out. We saw moose or their sign in many of the willow patches along the creeks. One day as this guy was riding back to camp he managed to get between a cow and its calf. The cow began pursuit. He told us that the 90 would barely make enough speed to avoid a stomping. The pursuit lasted a long ways. We thought it funny, at the time, but in reality it was not. They can get ornery.

Near sighted, afraid of nothing and used to having their own way. In Montana there would be no problem killing a moose, the problem is drawing a tag. They worry me more than bears. I had a young bull wander though my camp once, I worried that he would get tangled up in a tent rope and trash the place. Shooting an aggressive moose would not be much easier to explain to the Dept of Fun and Games, than a grizzly.

Key word in every incident report involving a moose: "stomped".

I just cannot imagine.

I fed a moose with a bucket of chow at a family friend's remote cabin in Wyoming. It was "tame" and had been fed many times before my visit (I know, bad idea) and to be that up close it was astounding to be so close to a giant beast in nature. They may look big from afar, but when you get that close it is awesome and scary at the same time.

The largest moose I ever saw in the ‘Wild’ was standing on the railroad on the way to the Anchorage Airport.

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Can't tell for sure from the picture, but gelding, maybe???

Are Yaks easier to tame than Moose or Elk?

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I did some work for a guy with some Yaks, He said they were often used similar to an Ox. He gave me a fair sized package of Yak steaks and they were excellent.
I would not trust a ".tame" bull moose, elk when the rut came.

Went to Eielson AFB just outside Fairbanks in 2008. The day we got there we were driving around the base getting our bearings and saw a young cow just off the road munching on some grass. She wasn't huge but bigger than a large horse. We stopped and got out to take some pictures, probably 30 yards from her. She didn't pay us much attention until my buddy skidded his boot on the gravel. She ran back about 10 yards, flipped her ears forward and gave us that "I am going to stomp you" look. We got in the car and took off. Looking back and knowing more about moose than I did back then I know we were lucky to get out of that one alive. They are amazing creatures.

When I was in trucking, we did a lot of trips to/from Maine. A company driver coming down the last bit of US 1 into Houlton at a decent clip and near maximum hit two moose. It totaled the truck, among other things, breaking the bolts that held the tandem to the frame. (These are pretty big ...). One moose was DRT. The other had to be hunted down and shot due to injuries, but had walked away. Dear me.

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