How do you ward off Moose attacks?

[NEVolFan]

Would like to hear your preferred strategies to avoid being attacked by a Moose.

For example... I have been attacked many times in the woods by moose. But each time I was able to avoid physical harm.
In my encounters with these beasts, I have learned to use visual eye contact and gentle voice control to get the moose to rethink his strategy to just trample me.
Another technique I use is to be more dominate than the moose, this really confuses them, and in that brief period where they just stand there thinking, you can run like hell.

I would be interested in how you deal with these animals... they are everywhere I go in the woods and new methods are welcomed.

 

[volfanbill]

I always confirm there’s someone slower than me in the group I’m with. Never go alone

 

[MoodyVol]

Playing easy listening 70’s rock on the pan flute is my preferred method of avoiding danger in moose infested forests.
I learned this technique by observing a small Sasquatch tribe in the Denali National Forest back in ‘87 while I was working with chemist researching the effects of hallucinogenics on people frequenting the forest.

 

[joevol33]

* meese if there's more than 1

 

[Vol737]

Find two trees (or a cluster) that have grown very close together and stay put. The Moose can't go between them, rack is too big. Continue to stay on opposite side of trees till said moose gets tired to the game. Of course, Mr. Miagi says "best way to avoid moose is no be there in first place." I'm just spit balling options here. JMO. I have no real experience with the creatures.

 

[BigO95]

Take a big gun.

 

[malinoisvol]

Execute the crazy ivan.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Execute the crazy ivan.

Why? He’s not a bad poster.

 

[SolidRockGolf]

Carry a police badge on you. They always run from the PoPo

 

[Weezer]

Carry a picture of Behr. I've heard moose are scared of Behrs.

 

[hmanvolfan]

Get a Rocky costume...

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.

 

[NEVolFan]

Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya.

Awesome....we just need that priceless image...

 

[95 Vol Alum]

Moby Dick

 

[superdave1984]

wondering if this is a metaphoric thread and not a reference to an actual moose.

 

[SolidRockGolf]

wondering if this is a metaphoric thread and not a reference to an actual moose.

Well an 18 year old Mexican boy named Moose attacked my truck with his Jeep. Maybe this thread could’ve helped.

5’5” boy with the huge jelled hair wave plastered above his forehead steps out. The real crime was his shoes! Lemme see if I can find them online.

 

[SolidRockGolf]

Found’em! Just type in black shoes gold spikes

 

[3rdDegreeVol]

You might give him a muffin to make him feel at home.

 

[MphsBlues]

Show him your Moose recipe book. Works for me, but past results are no guarantee of future occurrences.

 

[MphsBlues]

Nvm, was borderline hijacking....

 

[hmanvolfan]

I was driving on a country road years ago with no moon. The road was relatively straight and I could see headlights coming towards me about a mile away. All of a sudden they went out and I just assumed he pulled into a driveway. When I got down there there was a pickup truck in the middle of the road with the front end totally smashed in. This was before cell phones so I pulled over and asked the guy what the hell happened. He said he hit a cow and I looked around and didn’t see a cow. I asked him where the cow is and he said he just walked off into a field like nothing ever happened. Went to a pay phone and called his wife and told her that her husband needed a tow truck. Lulz.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Take a big gun.

I was thinking “shoot that mudder Trucker”

 

[VolNExile]

Would like to hear your preferred strategies to avoid being attacked by a Moose.

For example... I have been attacked many times in the woods by moose. But each time I was able to avoid physical harm.
In my encounters with these beasts, I have learned to use visual eye contact and gentle voice control to get the moose to rethink his strategy to just trample me.
Another technique I use is to be more dominate than the moose, this really confuses them, and in that brief period where they just stand there thinking, you can run like hell.

I would be interested in how you deal with these animals... they are everywhere I go in the woods and new methods are welcomed.

So I have patiently read through all 20 replies, hoping to figure out the Attacking Moose inside joke, yet it isn’t happening.

@NEVolFan, is this a common occurrence in your life? Is this a Thing now?

I live in West Asheville, where my most common threats are hipsters struggling with too-tight jeans over their black boots and roving gangs of tattoo artists. (I love WAVL and wouldn’t live anywhere else other than Pacific Grove, which we can’t afford, so nm.) Oh, and drivers prowling for parking spaces on ...

 

[joevol33]

So I have patiently read through all 20 replies, hoping to figure out the Attacking Moose inside joke, yet it isn’t happening.

@NEVolFan, is this a common occurrence in your life? Is this a Thing now?

I live in West Asheville, where my most common threats are hipsters struggling with too-tight jeans over their black boots and roving gangs of tattoo artists. (I love WAVL and wouldn’t live anywhere else other than Pacific Grove, which we can’t afford, so nm.) Oh, and drivers prowling for parking spaces on Haywood Road.

I've been meaning to tell you that I have a cousin in Asheville. She's probably crazy like me

 

[VolNExile]

I've been meaning to tell you that I have a cousin in Asheville. She's probably crazy like me

Well, there is a general requirement to be crazy to live here, so I can see that.

So hey, why aren’t you badgering HER to make your damn sammiches when you come through town??