Madorski

Wait... what?

Coffee hasn't kicked in yet, eh?

kpr121

I am actually interested in that question... Would they have been safer had they slammed brakes and just hit the moose?

I've fortunately never been in that type of situation so I don't know for sure what I would do, but I've always been told that it's best to stay the course and hit Rather than swerving off the road, into ditch, oncoming traffic, etc.

Of course here in pa there aren't any moose, biggest you'll run into is a deer usually.

sullyman

There after three important lessons here:

1. Wear your seatbelt. Easier, quicker, fear of being trapped... All excuses. Had a buddy ejected in a rollover and killed by his truck when it rolled over him. Better to be trapped than dead.

2. Always secure your cargo. Anything loose in. your truck becomes a projectile during a wreck.

3. Don't swerve to avoid animals. You're safer hitting a moose, cow, or deer than rolling down an embankment or hitting a tree or telephone pole. Have another buddy that has been a paraplegic since a day after graduation, because be swerved to avoid a cow in the road, and hit a telephone pole, wrapping the truck around it. Had he hit the cow, he'd still be walking today.

kevin7898

And if you swerve Icbc may not cover you as much or at all, as they list it as a single vehicle incident and its up to you to prove that there was an animal there as they will do anything to avoid paying out, they will peg it on anything, falling asleep distracted driving etc. I learned that the hard way. I was lucky enough to have dash cam footage of the deer.

kevin7898

Where in hell did you get poaching from.that, for one moose season is open in bc right now depending on which management unit you are in he can hunt well past 10 oclock cause the farther north you go the more sun light you get untill the fall equinox. where we hunt in 7-15 you can get a 2 year old bull moose. Please think before you speak,

Desert Dawg

Sorry for your loss but really glad you and your brother walked away from that one. Also glad the gun didn't go off since it got thrown about and then lodged....things could have been much worse for sure!

Hope you can get settled fast!

hendersonjosephl

You said last night insinuating dark. And hunting from the road in a truck. Ileagal and imoral. Your words. Mabey you should check your dictionary. People like you are dispicable and give responsible hunters a bad name. Think before poaching. If you did that in MS they would take your rifle and your truck.

CDC5.0

Hopefully everything works out for you, glad that you guys came out of it okay

sullyman

Night up north this time of year is a relative term. Heck, here in San Antonio, it's daylight to nearly 9 o'clock outside in the middle of summer. Most people I know refer to anything after dinner the day before as "last night." As in, "Did you watch the game last night?"

Doesn't mean it's dark outside.

Second, hunting from paved roads is illegal most places, but ranch roads, farm roads, etc, isn't. I grew up hunting from the bed of a pickup, because deer are plentiful here, and driving around in a truck allowed us to cover more ground and make better game management decisions on the ranch than shooting the first deer that walks past the blind.

I think you're out of line.

rdkev

LOL... I think you should just stop. You can't spell and apparently you can't read either. Laws are also different in Canada.