they're called nudge bars as thats all they are good for

I know...it's just the thought.

All of our ungalates - moose, elk, caribou, deer - are a very real danger to someone in a Mini and larger vehicles. Heading over the Hope Princeton Hwy. after dusk my wife said deer...and there they were beside the highway and beyond, at the limit of my headlights, a much larger elk crossed the road. Any of them would have come over the bonnet, into the windscreen and potentially crushed the cab.

Important reason to drive in daylight here and there!

One needs to be careful in a full size pickup truck too...even with a small moose.



Few speed on roads in Newfoundland...except during Targa. This small moose did quite a dance getting out of the way. Good thing too!

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They fence a good deal of the roads over here to keep many of the beasties off the road. You can ask when you stop for petrol if the road ahead has any dangerous spots from unfenced areas (and there will be a few because of the floods and cyclones this year) these guys get a fair bit of feedback from the road users and local cockies. The 'Roos and Emus you just can't account for however...they'll do as they please.

I would guess that the Moose just step over the fences up there, they're huge!

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is that the moose up on the roof there?

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Might be something they picked up for 'ron.

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Mooseburgers

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Something to read if waiting is required

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMkVq1jRGU

I,ll be in for that !!!

http://www.thehungrycyclist.com/blog/20 ... video.html

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Roo's are a mainly a hazard in the early morning and in the evening just before the sun goes down and then during the night.

If you drive during sunlight hours in roo areas you should not have too many problems.

I hit a fairly small roo in my Morris 1100 one night around midnight, got him with the headlight!

That would be a moose (a small one, likely a young cow or calf) on the top of the camper. On Hwy. 1 in Newfoundland there are large warning signs about Moose and the number of collisions:



One woman in a mid-size sedan hit a young moose in Ontario - it went through the front windscreen and out the rear window with its hind feet on the bonnet and its head on the bootlid. Fortunately, there was no one in the RH passenger seat as they would have been killed outright. The female driver was remarkably unscathed!

And yes, big bull moose just walk over range fences for cattle. Cow moose stop and go over with a little hop. Elk, mule deer and whitetail deer bound over cattle fencing.

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Hunter2, you're saying that, that is a small moose!!!! Geeeeeeeeeeees!! We get feral Deer in my area (they aren't native, there was a farm somewhere in the area and they escaped about 30 years ago and now the place is crawling with them some times of the year).... I thought they were big!! Thats incredible!!

Moose are a very long legged ungalate because they are found in northern forests which (until global warming set in) saw significant accumulations of snow.

They also like boggy areas, marshes and lakes. They love water lilies and will dive 25 feet down to get at their roots (the best part). Imagine a non-marine mammal with large antlers, cloven hooves and long legs diving 25 feet for the roots of a water plant?

We hunt moose in such areas, higher elevation/more snow, bogs/marshes, and shallow lakes...of course, the wolves do too! Wolves have long legs, big paws for travelling on snow, weigh in at 100 lbs. plus and together bring down deer, elk, moose...but not usually cattle because the range cows are pretty tough stuff themselves and do an excellent job of protecting their calves...and the cattle are off the summer ranges before snow sets in.

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My mate came hammering over the crest of a hill at speed in SA one night in his quick 850, back in 1965.
Was confronted with Mrs Moocow standing in the middle of the road.
What to do- play chicken & go straight? Veer (R) in front of it? Veer behind?
He chose the last, but she backed up. Made a bit of a gooey mess of the Mini's roof, but the car wasn't bent.
What happened to the cow? I have no idea, sorry!
But yes it happened, I saw the pics.

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