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On a long, lonely, deteriorating,, poor cellular service, 'I-can-hear-banjos', dual-sport motorcycle kind of country road, I was on a hyper-sport, returning because it was an unmarked dead end. Bambi changed her mind, reversed course back into the swamp just in time. She was muttering something, like "damn, left the water running in the tub", if I heard her right. Posted in Lounge rather than What's Your Deal because no bad outcome. Whatcha got? ____________________ | ||
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Not this weekend but several years ago on the Blueridge on decided to run along side and across, lucky we were just tooling along at the 35 MPH speed limit at the time... No harm no foul... | |||
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Numerous deer encounters in Northern Michigan this summer, but fortunately only one “Oh Shit!” moment. On M33 just north of Atlanta heading towards Onaway, deer on a full boar run, jumped from the brush on the right side of the road, landed in the middle of my lane, jumped into the brush on the left side of the road. The timing was such that, had my brakes not worked so well, or I had been going a few MPH faster, or I hadn’t been paying close attention to the sides of the road and not hit the brakes as I saw it in the air, it would have landed on my hood. I have yet to bag a deer with a vehicle, but I did get a turkey doing 65MPH on a motorcycle once. I was riding down the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minnesota heading for the bridge in LaCrosse on my way to Chicago, the turkey took off like Harrier. It was facing the ditch, but turned around at the last second, went straight up, then straight out. Took the mirror off my ZX9R and my shoulder was sore for two weeks. | |||
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No deer. But on my last motorcycle ride, a flock of Sandhill Cranes casually strolled into my path. Hooray for integrated ABS! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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No deer, but an idiot in a jacked up pickup almost ran over me in the vette when he decided to take his half out of the middle of a parking lot entryway. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Nothing serious (yet), and no head-on collisions, but I have had deer on two different occasions leap into the side of vehicles I was driving. | |||
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This happened a few years ago. My wife worked with her father at Fort Knox. Rather clever wording of the headline by the local news guy (“Buck meets Doe during cross-country meet”). https://www.wave3.com/story/73...-cross-country-meet/ --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Two weekends ago I was in Steamboat Springs, CO. Whilst mountain biking I came across a cow moose and her calf grazing along the trail. They were about 30 yards away and I kept my distance and watched until they walked off. The next day we were tubing on the river when we heard some rustling in the bushes just across where we were. I thought it was another moose or maybe a deer until a big-ass brown bear stood up to check us out. He was 15 feet from us! Scared the shit out of me but we all kept our cool and just floated by while he continued eating his berries. | |||
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Last week. Deer got lucky due to ABS. Why do they always come from the right side of the road? RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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Many,many,many years ago back when I was working in the fire protection industry I was on the road doing service calls one day. I was working in Jackson Township NJ right out side Great Adventure theme park. Not sure how built up it is now but back then it was in what we would call the sticks. I was driving down the road when all of a sudden a deer ran out in front of me. I slammed on my brakes( thankfully it was winter time because I was the only one on the road) and missed him as he ran right in front of my van. Next thing I know I hear this loud crash, look in my driver side mirror and there is another deer stumbling around on the road. I guess they were traveling in pairs and one was a little slower than the other because he slammed right into the back of my van. After a few seconds he regained his composure and ran off into the woods. Only damage was where a antler made a small dent. Our county Fire Marshal told me to get deer whistles and put them on the front of the van. He has them on all the county Fire Marshal cars and trucks because they respond all over the county and a lot of their calls were in rural areas with a lot of deer. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State NRA Life Member | |||
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Not recent but about 19 years ago I was just starting out on a ride on my beloved ZX-7R winding up first gear at full throttle when a large black bear darted across the road in front of me. My rear tire came up about 2-3” when I hit the front brakes avoiding it by about 25 yards or so. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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You would not believe how built up that area has become over the last 5 years. 5 acre indoor sport fields, outdoor sports fields, hotels and restaurants etc. I worked for Jackson MUA up to a few years ago, always at Great Adventure as we supplied their water/sewer. Still plenty of deer, some bear, occasional tiger. Living the Dream | |||
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I hadn’t thought about it, but in the 10-15 times deer crossed my path this summer, you are right. Every single time they came from the right. I can’t remember a single instance of a deer coming from the left. Even that turkey came from the right. | |||
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In the mid 70's I was riding my Triumph on the back country roads in Tolland county here in CT. A very large buck jumped out of the woods just ahead of me. Luckily, as he landed in the road he immediately turned and ran up the road in the same direction I was traveling. I was five feet behind him for probably about 200 feet and then he jumped back into the woods. If he had waited a second or two more before jumping, he would have nailed me. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Over 40 years ago I was vacationing in the Pocono mountains. On a beautiful May day I went for a morning ride. On a country road I was doing about 40, with me as the only traffic, a deer decided to cut and run. I saw him up on the embankment by the side of the road, then hitting the head tube of the bike. We both went down, only I got up. I slid for a distance but, between my protective gear and deer guts, I was unharmed. Helmet, gloves, boots and jacket did their job and were retired. The bike, a silver 1979 Honda CB750F, was fixed and I rode it for several years. Let me help you out. Which way did you come in? | |||
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Back in the 80s and 90s I remember driving west on 195 to go on service calls, as soon as you went past the Garden State Parkway we considered it the sticks. On a recent trip back to NJ we flew into Trent/Mercer airport and a friend picked us up. Driving east on 195 my wife and I were amazed at how much the area had built up over the years since we moved to FL. We have lived in FL for 24 years and we are amazed at how much our area here has built up. I remember back in the days when I worked at our County Fire Academy, If I was teaching a night class in the winter pulling into the parking lot to herds of dear on the training ground. We backed up to a heavenly wooded area and if my Memory is correct you were not aloud to hunt in those areas so there were a lot of deer at the time. The town I grew up in never had any real populations of deer when I still live there. Since most of their habitat west of our town has been developed they moved east into a huge park we have in the middle of our town. A friend the other night posted a picture of several deer in his back yard, something you would have never seen several years ago. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State NRA Life Member | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
Deer or gaggle of geese? Asking for a friend. | |||
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| Made from a different mold  |
Back in 2017 I had a Yamaha FZ1 and was riding across Rt 211 in Virginia from Sperryville to Luray and back at a hurried pace. Got to the bottom of the mountain on the Page side, turned around and started back up the mountain. 2/3rds of the way up on a nice tight right hander, a smallish 100 pound bear hopped over the guardrail to my left and ran into me. I pushed it off of me and the bike with my left leg and kept from crashing. After that, I putted up to the ranger station at the Thornton Gap entrance to Skyline Drive and sat there for about an hour trying to collect myself. I wish I had a go pro at that time as it would have made for a helluva YouTube video. ___________________________ No thanks, I've already got a penguin. | |||
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More light than heat |
One tried to kill the wife in June, but only succeeded at killing her car. _________________________ "Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it." Robert Heinlein | |||
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To all of you who are serving or have served our country, Thank You |
Watch out for them turkeys. | |||
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