Aha, mooses are cool. The biggest animals we have here are the black bears, which I have seen dead ones weighing 700 lb (~300kg), but most of them tend to be in the 250-350 lb (100-150 kg) range. Then next are the white tail deers, which are fairly small here due to overpopulation, probably only slightly larger on average than the European roe deer. Some of the whitetails out west are monstrously sized, but here they are small lol.

Sometimes I wonder, how my life might be different if I didn't have such strong family and land bonds here in Appalachia. I often think that, if I didn't have those bonds, I would have ended up in northern Idaho or Alaska, the vast uninhabited tracts of snowy forests, just being antisocial and eating animals and weeds until I died from exposure or accident far from civilization, lol.

But as to the bears, I love bear hunting so much. Hunting the other animals, even the turkeys... There is just no comparison..... Here is one of the few places in the US that they still allow us to run them with hounds, and we chase them for miles, through such rough terrain. It is like a little pocket of Real living amidst the fake-ness of modern existence.