Deer
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Joined: Oct 2006
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From: North East, Pennsylvania
RE: Deer
Your not talking about Bigfoot are you ???? lol
ORIGINAL: mopardave
The whistles don't work. Nothing works. The best thing you can do is use your high beams at night so you can see them and they can see you. When you do see them, don't change anything (you can spook them). Of course if they all of a sudden start heading accross in front of you you might then want to do something
. They are not too bright and will usually stay put unless they are spooked. With all of that said, the two legged creatures with the 4-wheeled machines are the ones that I worry about. I havn't seen the actual recorded numbers, but I would put money on it that it's a whole lot more dangerous riding around people than it is around deer.[&:]
The whistles don't work. Nothing works. The best thing you can do is use your high beams at night so you can see them and they can see you. When you do see them, don't change anything (you can spook them). Of course if they all of a sudden start heading accross in front of you you might then want to do something
. They are not too bright and will usually stay put unless they are spooked. With all of that said, the two legged creatures with the 4-wheeled machines are the ones that I worry about. I havn't seen the actual recorded numbers, but I would put money on it that it's a whole lot more dangerous riding around people than it is around deer.[&:]
Road Warrior
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Chicagoland
RE: Deer
I live in the Chicagoland area. If you have never been here, the suburbs spread out about 40 miles in each direction, one after another, as opposed to town, country, town, etc. As the suburban sprawl continues to encroach on the wildlife, they start adapting to suburban life. The city & suburbs are dotted with green space (forest preserves) where the wildlife ends up. I drove from my house to my mom's the other evening, about 12 miles, and literally saw between 20-25 deer along side the road. I live in a very typical suburban subdivision with some wetlands area in the middle. We have deer, coyotes and other critters roaming throughout the subdivision at night. One night I woke up to find 4 deer in my backyard.
Cook County, which includes the City of Chicago and many suburbs, along with the other densely populated areas do not allow hunting, so the deer are getting out of control. I think about it every time I ride and it scares the crapola out of me!
Cook County, which includes the City of Chicago and many suburbs, along with the other densely populated areas do not allow hunting, so the deer are getting out of control. I think about it every time I ride and it scares the crapola out of me!
Tourer
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Arizona
RE: Deer
Hit one last fall. Always looking out for them on the way to work. Usually going to work just before sunup. This day the sun was up, not to worried. The little **** was standing in a dirt rode next to the paved. We looked at each other and it went in front of me. I had just enough time to hit the brakes when bam!. The front tire hit it just in front of the find quarters. The deer went spinning to the other side of the rode. I stopped. I saw it crawl off the side into the brush. Turned around to check on it. It was still alive but the back was broke and it couldn't stand up. I called the MP's (work on Post) to come and put it out of it's missery. It was the size of maybe a large Grayhound. I guess I got lucky. The MP's tripped out that I didn't go down.
Banned
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Triangle, VA
RE: Deer
Rounding a blind corner last summer on a two lane country road when one of those walking meat buffets jumped out from the bank. Fortunately I wasn't pushing it and was able to stand her up and brake before we made contact. Definite pucker factor.
3rd Gear
Joined: Feb 2007
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RE: Deer
That's nothing I live in Michigan and a buddy of mine was riding one night and just before dark he came around a curve, missed 3 cows and hit the last one.
They had gotten out of the fence and were stand in the middle of the road.
The farmer had to pay for his bike and medical billed. Fortunately he is ok.
They had gotten out of the fence and were stand in the middle of the road.
The farmer had to pay for his bike and medical billed. Fortunately he is ok.
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Road Master
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Cedar Rapids, IA
RE: Deer
ORIGINAL: chester1957
XL1200N, we rode down to C.R. Saturday to my wife's sisters. She lives just off Edgewood Rd and she said they had a buck in their back yard. She told us not to ride Edgewood as there are deer hit on this street all the time. We ride up around Backbone State park all the time and deer are my number one concern when riding. Just lost a buddy last fall to a deer, he hit it less than a mile from home. Keep an eye out. Five buddies have hit deer in the last 7 years. 3 ride, 2 to quit, 1 isn't able any more and 1 died.
Just recently a tree farmer that shot a deer to protect his livelyhood, was charged with poaching, this is all pushed by hunters. Back in the day, it was hunting, these days, you just go out and shoot, groups of hunters that don't shoot a dozen deer opening day think they had a bad year.
XL1200N, we rode down to C.R. Saturday to my wife's sisters. She lives just off Edgewood Rd and she said they had a buck in their back yard. She told us not to ride Edgewood as there are deer hit on this street all the time. We ride up around Backbone State park all the time and deer are my number one concern when riding. Just lost a buddy last fall to a deer, he hit it less than a mile from home. Keep an eye out. Five buddies have hit deer in the last 7 years. 3 ride, 2 to quit, 1 isn't able any more and 1 died.
Just recently a tree farmer that shot a deer to protect his livelyhood, was charged with poaching, this is all pushed by hunters. Back in the day, it was hunting, these days, you just go out and shoot, groups of hunters that don't shoot a dozen deer opening day think they had a bad year.
The funny thing is if you want to hunt the deer there the DNR's, if you hit one with your car there not theDNR's problem. The city pays for the contact hunt not the state or the DNR. But the DNR over see's it.
Brian
Cruiser
Joined: Apr 2006
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RE: Deer
I was coming home late, about 10:30 from a PGR mission last Tuesday. I saw a doe pop her head up out of a bar ditch and the next thing I knew she was right there next to my fearing, no time to grab the break just countered steared[sp] hard to the left and felt her brush the saddle bags. It was a 2 lane road and I drive just right of the center line. It saved my life that nite. Ride safe ya'll.
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Road Captain
Joined: Dec 2006
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From: In Wisconsin somewhere south of Wausau.
RE: Deer
Aw, deer and turkeys. Gods wrath on bikers.
Back in '82 me and a buddy were riding along on one of Wisconsin's country roads when I rounded a corner just in time to see a very large doe run out from the ditch and into my path. I hit the worthless animal straight on which caused my new scoot to go down hard, throwing me even harder to the pavement. When I finished rolling I had a broken collar bone and a cracked lower leg. (The leg broke in half a week later).
Last summer during a beautiful riding day I was headin home when a very large turkey came flying out of the ditch-line. That forty pound missile missed my head by mere inches. I consider myself very luck to have missed this animal. Hitting a turkey is like hittin a 40 pound bowling ball.
If it were up to me the Wisconsin deer and turkey season would be 365 days a year, 24/7, with hunters being able to use machine guns and hand gernades to bag the wothless pieces of sh*t.
Back in '82 me and a buddy were riding along on one of Wisconsin's country roads when I rounded a corner just in time to see a very large doe run out from the ditch and into my path. I hit the worthless animal straight on which caused my new scoot to go down hard, throwing me even harder to the pavement. When I finished rolling I had a broken collar bone and a cracked lower leg. (The leg broke in half a week later).
Last summer during a beautiful riding day I was headin home when a very large turkey came flying out of the ditch-line. That forty pound missile missed my head by mere inches. I consider myself very luck to have missed this animal. Hitting a turkey is like hittin a 40 pound bowling ball.
If it were up to me the Wisconsin deer and turkey season would be 365 days a year, 24/7, with hunters being able to use machine guns and hand gernades to bag the wothless pieces of sh*t.
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Road Master
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Cedar Rapids, IA
RE: Deer
ORIGINAL: Lil Truckr
Aw, deer and turkeys. Gods wrath on bikers.
If it were up to me the Wisconsin deer and turkey season would be 365 days a year, 24/7, with hunters being able to use machine guns and hand gernades to bag the wothless pieces of sh*t.
Aw, deer and turkeys. Gods wrath on bikers.
If it were up to me the Wisconsin deer and turkey season would be 365 days a year, 24/7, with hunters being able to use machine guns and hand gernades to bag the wothless pieces of sh*t.
Same in Iowa