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>  What
> to do when you scare up a moose? 
> Thanks
> As someone posted earlier , a moose can be way more dangerous than either
> bear or cats . We have had a bull moose break into corrals to go after
> our horses in hunting camps , they do wreck havoc on a packstring :-) The
> best thing you can do especially during calving and the rut is to get as
> far away as fast as you can as a moose is so unpredictable . Never try to
> chase them off of a trail , if you run into them on foot find a tree to
> get behind as they attack with their front feet striking . I have seen
> them take on cars before when people tried to hide in cars or thought
> they could get close in a vehicle to watch them . I have been chased more
> than once by them as we live in prime moose country
> .

This cannot be stressed enough.

Moose are one of the top dangers of the Iditarod race.
Considering the race is run during the worst weather
under the most demanding conditions.

I once saw a video of a cow moose killing a man.  It
was so unexpected and so quick it gave rattlesnakes
something to shoot for.

Marv "Bullwinkle is an urban legend with a smattering
of truth and that is, some squirrels do fly!" Walker
2004 Appearances:
http://MarvWalker.com/2004.htm