So do you dress them out and eat them when you hit them? I would think they would taste like a horse. I’m not sure what horse tastes like but do you really eat them?
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Good idea. Whoda thunk there would be a farmer down that road tho… just sayin
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Farmer? I fell in love down that road!
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The State Troopers keep a roadkill salvage list, and I believe anyone can sign up to be on it.
When a roadkill occurs, they call whoever is at the top of the list and continue phoning on down the list until someone will respond. That can be at 3:00 A.M. and at -50 f in some cases.
Some folks have trailers and trucks now set up to winch the whole animal onto a surface/vehicle so they can process it out of the way/threat of highway traffic and sometimes in a warm area.
Moose are ruminants, and if they sit too long, even in the cold, they bloat, and the stomach gases get outrageously awful in stench if they wait too long, not to mention the possibility of bone soured meat.
A sufficient number of good quality cotton canvas game bags of the sort we use runs about $50 (8 or 9 bags) the last time I bought any, but we recycle them and stitch them up when necessary.
We get between 450 and 650 lbs. of clean meat from a decent sized bull.
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moose eater
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For years one of the biggest (transit) culprits for killers of moose were the Alaska Rail Road trains. When the snow's too deep or the top of the snow is crusted, they, like the rest of us, tend to seek what appears to be the path of least resistance, and they'll show up wherever they can find accessible grub, easy walking, etc. Yards, railroad tracks, etc.
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The flavor is unique to moose, and it can vary based on rutting season or not, and how they were handled, the amount of shock or stress at the time of death, etc.
I crave it, but back in the day when we routinely harvested a whole angus-cross beef to match our moose, we'd add about 15% snow-white premium local suet to our moose burger. Sometimes grind some bacon into it as well. MMmmmmm.
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You look like my cousin Sal ! know any Sals that look like you?
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We were up the Taylor Hwy, toward Chicken, Alaska, a few years ago, my wife and I.
I was trying to size up a bull and get our location so I could see if the rather nice bull was qualified for the bed of the truck.
My wife was busily waving her hands/arms, yelling to the moose to run away.
Not always the team that we are in some circumstances.
On the other hand, she's carried a ~100-lb. moose hindquarter on her shoulder with the best of them, and once even took a tumble down our front porch steps (13 of them) with a hindquarter on her shoulder.
I kept repeating over and over again in the relative darkness of a chilly fall morning, "Are you OK??!!" until she became hostile. There are some injuries where a panicked person asking you questions repeatedly just doesn't go well.
Sweet dreams Gypsy
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Continuing my genealogy search on my father's side. I found I can trace my family to a piece of land that they have owned since at least 1722. I have a document that states my 4x great grandfather was the heir to this land and perhaps to land that his deceased 1st wife was the heiress. It was in 1849 that x4 was given his nobility card and coat of arms through the Kingdom Of Poland. Sadly, the land was stolen by the Russians in 1867. Today, the land developed into a small town. As the heir apparent I wonder If I can get that land back.
Please tell me they're not still down there lolI used to take women down that road.....
I will leave that to your imagination....good to see you my friend.
Humm…. Stil sounds a bit gamey for me. Maybe a calf or whatever you call a baby moose would be worth a try. I grew up on venison but only liked doe meat. Momma did a good job tho killing the game taste with salt dials and the right seasoning when cooking it.
I took those classes too!
Love elk.....deer is gamey. Never ate moose. If prepared properly anything is worth a try.,,well most everything.
