Jeep Cherokee 0, Moose XXX, Nomad -1

[oldbikers]

Mac glad to hear you and the little woman are OK, I don't have a clue as to what a new fender would cost but there is a black one on e-bay now for $230.00 if that would help you.

[ringadingh]

I took a look at your pics, and the fender doesn't look to bad to use for now, Id leave it until you can find a used one on Ebay someday. If you take your time looking you can usually find one at a good price, perhaps more in the fall or winter.
That looks like a yearling moose to me, I spend 10 days every fall looking for them up north, and most times they evade me.
To bad that its not going to be used, I would have hooked him up to a atv and pulled him out if I had a chance, a young bull like that would have been a fair bit of steaks and roasts for the winter.

[macmac]

Thanks.. fer the tip, but I found affordable at $313.00 in green and silver.. I think I will hammer out what I have and replace it over winter. With a bumper sticker saying brake for Moose in black and bright yellow on the fender and it battered some, I might meet new face to face people...

Being kinda fuzzy and in black leather some folks I might like to chat with fear I will bite off their heads...

i would never, but then that what they are told..

If it was hard up and there were no fenders I would cut ip about 7 stripes of steel and weld one up. I don't have any english wheel.

Where i live now has no place that lends to the painting process.. No place out of the weather i could get clean.

I share this place with the owner, and so I can't pull the stunts i might if it were just me and my wife.

[macmac]

Ring he went down in cool water around 9:30 Pm last night, but I don't think he was good meat by noon today. Some of it maybe, but in the USA and in NH there is new law on gutting and who has the right, and all sorts of BS...

I don't have the tooling to get him out exactly, and no help.

I sure hope F&G get him out of there, as these are head waters to the sea... They better because that is what they are paid to do in part. Seems they wasted this day.

It won't get any better than it is right now, and if they don't there will be more stink about it than one dead moose.

The next door neighbor knows because he caught me there, The cops know, and so does my wife who took the pic.

I hate the idea of wasting it myself, but I just can't deal with this one right now.

[dabull]

Mac...Dennis (Bonifay, FL) and I discussing your ordeal today after I mentioned the kawanow Nomad group to him in conversation...he said..."hey you probably talk to my bud Mac up in NH!! SMALL WORLD bro!

[ells]

Mac, Good job keeping it straight in the skid. A 2 mph impact sure beats "puttin' it down" at 40 mph.

[coacha]

Glad you and the wife came out of it unscathed.

[ballast]

Great pics Mac. Really glad you 2 are ok. I think I will show that last pic to my Harley buddies and tell 'em that's what happens when a Nomad owner gets pissed off at a moose. :(" title="" border="0"/>

[egetaseb]

Wow,
I am glad you are okay Mac. You may not see it this way but I think your timing was perfect because if you were in front of the jeep, the story will be very different. God works in amazing ways.

[01nomad]

Mac, I have a 1500 front fender ya can have. It's Grey & Silver, but you can paint the rest of your bike Grey if you wish, although I do like da Green. I have no idea how much it would cost to send, but I bought a new Fatboy fender for mine with postage for less than $70 if you dare to be different! Of coarse you might have to paint it Grey tho. I do think that the forks are the same and that's bout all that is. OK, the brakes too. Anything fits if want it to. It's really good you can still be here to talk about it!!!

[macmac]

I'll be all set with a same new fender in the time I need it.

The main point I want and need to get across is in moose country i thought I knew what I was doing and it turns out I didn't.

We don't often stop fast when a sudden wall you can go though appears on a sudden.

At night I always follow a sturdy car, and try to stay inside a distance a moose might not enter as a car passes.

I skidded as any fool can see n the pics and i used a 50 foot tape to get the whole thing at 81 feet.. 81 feet at 45 isn't enough. The only time that is enough is when the object that was moving still moves and that jeep stopped dead Right Now, err maybe it went 5 feet, but in the dark i can't tell. I don't even know what color it is.

I went to hunt it down but where ever it is it is a secret. I will ask the owner again, because he told my wife, and we looked and went to the cop shop and the woman dispatcher was just confused.

I wanted to show what happens to a sturdy vehical. The roof comes in...

[cheriann]

OMG Mac!!!!
I am SO happy that you and your wife weren't hurt!!!

I must tell you....I am SO impressed with your skills!!! I have had a few incidents that required me to brake hard and quickly (nothing like what you had to do, though) on my bike, and I KNOW how much the bike wants to skid sideways!!!!!! You managed to keep your bike in line and didn't go over ~ WOW!

I am also SO impressed with the Nomad! The amount of damage isn't anything like I was picturing while reading your story. I will keep an eye out for a matching fender for you and let you know if I find a good deal.

Again, I am SO glad you are okay!!!!
{{{HUGS}}}

[ccmjr77]

Glad you and the wife are ok.

[flavor]

Hey Mac......when you PM's me I thought you were talking about the van or another vehicle. I didn't realize you went moose hunting with your bike.

You know they have shotguns and rifles for that. :) :) :)

Surprised you didn't strap a quarter on the bike and take it home.

What the hell were you thinking...............

PS. What time did the accident happen. Dawn Dusk Middle of the day?

[macmac]

Apx 9:00 PM in known to me territory for moose. The reason i won't pass the lead vehical.

The way I look at it I screwed up, but I didn't understand that before.

Following too far back allows a moose to enter the road at night un-seen and it will be un-seen.

A moose will quarter away every time and so there is no red eye glow from eyes, no glossey guard hairs. The light hits the pointy tip of the hairs. Moose are like deer and have hollow hair not fur. The suck up all the light there is.

I saw the moose, but didn't know it was a moose. I saw something black and shiney in the lights of the jeep off the right of the jeep.

I hear the clumph and knew then it was a moose, but couldn't go left for fear the moose would which it did, and I couldn't go right because i couldn't be sure the moose wouldn't go back.

SO right now I don't know where to be. I know if I am too close to the blocker I will hit him, and if I am too far back a moose can enter behind the blocker..

This ends up like playing 52 pick up with sticks of lit dynamite.

The guy driving the jeep never saw the moose, He didn't see it before he hit, and when he did, the windshield came in and roof came down, and so he still didn't see it!

He never saw that moose til I sent him the picture!

No one else saw it either, and I watched it go east to finish crossing the road on 2 ft legs, then across a yard and it disappeared from my view in the dark.

My need to clear the road of the bike and jeep were greater than the moose, and my .22 mag in my pocket is hardley the weapon for a moose. If I had my .45 Remington Rand it would have been a very poor choice too, but I didn't have that problem.

I stuffed a really big Snap-On screw driver under the fender yesterday, and lifted it, during the lift I hit the fender with the heel of a rolled fist and pulled in the swelled metal. Then I use vise grips to roll the crimp back under the fender where the crimp belongs.

I found the bent 'lowers' bracket is easy to bend back to straight, softer steel than I thought. (These bend easy)


The small lamp on the lowers works but one of two rivets is trash, and I went nawth and bought a new pair for 15 bucks. You can buy these same lamps for 120, and the only diff is 105 bucks!

I also stopped at the National US Parks Service and got 3 Brake for Moose stickers... The lady was nice enough but yelled at me for wanting 3 stickers instead of the normal 2...

Screw her, I pay taxes, and offered to pay for something you can't pay for. That would screw up the Govt, when these are for flat landers for free to take home...

Lota good that does I'ld say because one whole sticker in over the battered fender right now, and the logo Moose heads stradle the tank like WW-2 pilots did

If I can't have these stickers then I guess i can harvest a moose when ever I want...

I told that woman I 'earned these' and her dammned moose was DEAD.

Thanks CheriAnn....... I am alive and well, a lousey fender isn't much loss... I feel bad for the moose to tell the truth. ... A really good rider wouldn't have hit anything.. he would get Beamed up by Scotty in the nick of time..