Posted on 09/29/2022 10:31:26 AM PDT by real saxophonist
He’s lucky to be alive........................
If it didn’t bleed out, blood may have pooled in the lower parts of the moose carcass.
Absolutely, in our state you load it up and take it to game and fish. They will issue you a tag to legally possess the meat and chalk it up as road kill.
My neighbor hit a deer on his motorcycle awhile back. I drove by him afterwards - he was standing next to the parked bike - actually sitting on the seat - talking on his cell and waved Hi and smiled at me as I passed.
I saw him a couple of days later wearing a cast and found out he had hit the deer and broke his leg. Didn’t crash though.
Sarah Palin would approve
Without opening it up to cool, heat can ruin a lot of meat, as well.
I am of the opinion that Moose is better in sausage than steak. Moose hide can be some tough leather if tanned properly.
I have some moosehide moccasins that are very soft and comfortable.
How does it taste?
Goes well with Squirrel.
I should think he damn-near “ate it” when he hit the damn thing!
Absolutely true story here... Funny now, but not at the time.
I was driving a little Plymouth Horizon Hatchback on Rt 15 from NY into Pennsylvania. Had just crossed the border into Pennsylvania when a big doe ran across the highway and a tractor trailer truck hit the deer.
It only hit the head, which spun the deer around and it lay on the edge of the road. It was dead. The only damage was to the deer’s head and it was bleeding from the mouth, so I tied two plastic grocery bags over the deer’s head so I didn’t get any blood in my car.
The doe was so big, it was all I could do to flop it into the open hatchback. I drove down to Williamsport and was on the bypass when I heard this loud snorting sound. I looked in the rear view mirror to see this plastic grocery bag bouncing off the ceiling. The deer was not dead, but only knocked out. It was trying to stand up in my little car and couldn’t as the ceiling was too low.
Scared the crap out of me.
I managed to knock it out again with a tire iron I had on the floor of the passenger seat in front, this time making sure it was dead. (Had changed a tire that morning and thankfully was too lazy to put it back in the garage)
When I got home I immediately butchered it, finding two fully developed fawns in it, ready to be delivered. That was why it was so heavy.
I now laugh every time I think of looking in the rear view mirror and seeing the plastic grocery bag bobbing around!
This happened in 1983... it was a new car and my wife would have killed me if I got blood all over the inside!
My father-in-law hit a moose with his Bronco. Latter survived with a broken windshield. Moose dressed out at something just above 900 lbs. Good eatin’. Enough to share with family, friends and neighbors.
“Any cyclist who survives a collusion with a moose”
I colluded with a moose once. Can’t trust
them. He didn’t hold up his end of the deal.
The area of impact doesn’t generally yield any salvageable meat.
He didn’t his the 4 legs.. That’s the bulk of it.
“Between her lower rib cage and her hind legs,”
I’m guessing that hindquarter was heavily damaged. There is never just one impact. There is also the impact with the pavement.
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