so a deer jumps out in front of me, I slam on my brakes.....

[allan5oh]

Then I realized, it wasn't a deer, and he was slowly trotting along.

It was a MOOSE.

If I hadn't of hit the brakes, we would all be eating moose burger.

It was less than 10 feet.

[mapleleaf_1]

Allan I love to eat moose meat but I'd prefer to get it another way than with the front end of my truck. One time I was driving a load from Cochrane in northern Ontario down to Toronto. Just outside of New Liskert I came around a bend in the road and came upon a cow moose and her 2 calves, They had started to cross the road as I was rounding the bend. Thank God there was no traffic in either direction besides me, otherwise, it could have been nasty. Scared the daylights out of me. Still don't know how I missed hitting one of them. You take care driving and everyone else drive safe too.

[coastie]

Never seen a Moose out on the road, but the closest I came to hitting a deer in a truck was in Ill. There was a deer standing on the white line, and some faster Trucks passing me on the left. The Deer had his head out in the road area, so I was expecting to hit it. I missed. The trucks behind me saw it and was amazed at the size of the deer and it's nerve to stand there.

A driver for the Company I worked for, did hit a horse up in Montana. Torn the front end of the truck up pretty bad.

[allan5oh]

Deer are nothing for me. I usually hit one every 1-2 years.

Maple, this happened on 17 just west of t-bay, maybe an hour.

[allan5oh]

I know someone that hit a black angus!

I go snow mobiling in Pittsburgh New Hampshire on First Connecticut Lake every year for a week with a bunch of people. Pittsburgh NH has the highest population of moose anywhere on earth. On the average, 9 moose per square mile. We go out 1 night on the trails real slow just to watch them standing on the trail 10 feet away from us. They are so cool. And before you say anything. Moose mind there own business. It's only the female in the spring with a calf that will attack.

Lets see, when there is more than one moose is it.

Mooses
Mices
Mooseye

[Orangetxguy]

:moose:

[rank]

I go snow mobiling in Pittsburgh New Hampshire on First Connecticut Lake every year for a week with a bunch of people. Pittsburgh NH has the highest population of moose anywhere on earth. On the average, 9 moose per square mile.

#1 export of the town of Moose Factory, ON.

[allan5oh]

We have crazy amounts of deer here, but no moose, you have to go further east into ontario for them critters.

Between Winnipeg and the US border(less then 60 miles) there's said to be 10,000 deer along the Red river.

One time on highway 12 in an hour I saw about 120 deer.

Moose Factory, LMFAO, that's hilarious!

[Ian Williams]

Deer are nothing for me. I usually hit one every 1-2 years.

Maple, this happened on 17 just west of t-bay, maybe an hour.

One of the line drivers at our barn who runs US395 from Reno to Big Pine nightly has hit 37 deer in his driving career.

[Jackrabbit379]

I remember the first time I saw a moose. I was on harvest, We were in North Dakota. We got done in Bismark, and went to Kelvin,ND. It was sunset, and I was standing in the stubble, and I saw something about 100 yards or so in the field. I was trying to figure out what it was. About that time, the farmer pulled up in the field. I looked at him, and I asked him what that was I was looking at. He just had a laid back answer. He was like, "moose. That's a moose. Looks like a small bull." I was like, a moose?? :shock: I couldnt believe it. I was like, it looks like the ones on tv.

[allan5oh]

Yeah there was one in ND that got confused, came from ontario, and hung around mile marker 82 on i29. I think she was hit about half a year later.

[mapleleaf_1]

Hey Rank are you from Moose Factory? I used to live in Moosonee and take the freight canoes and drive over to Moose Factory. Been some time since I've been up that way though. I miss it at times. Drive safe everyone.

[rank]

Hey Rank are you from Moose Factory? I used to live in Moosonee and take the freight canoes and drive over to Moose Factory. Been some time since I've been up that way though. I miss it at times. Drive safe everyone.

Nope. Went to college in Kirkland Lake tho. That's far enough north.

[mapleleaf_1]

Oh heck Rank that's still considered "down south" LOL That's where Alan Thicke is from too. Drive safe everyone.

[coastie]

When I was in the Service we moored up in Anchorage Alaska, Had a elk get into a Fenced off. The fence was no shorter than 12 feet high. Hour later he was gone again. We tried to watch to see how it got out, but there one minute, gone the next.

[Shawnee]

There are a lot of moose here where I live in Ontario, I sometimes see them near my property in the early morning or in the evening.

I almost hit some tourists one night when I was coming home in my big truck, they were stopped in the middle of the road taking a picture of a moose.

[mapleleaf_1]

Yes Shawnee I've seen that many times myself when heading to Cochrane or Timmins on Hwy#11. They never seem to learn. So many bends in the road up there wouldn't take much to come around a corner some time and hit someone. Drive safe everyone.