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Just a small post to keep my on going hatred of the large "highway rats" alive. As pulled from a year old Easyriders that I found in some junk... In 2008, there were 1.5 MILLION Deer accidents with motor vehicles. You are 85% likely to die in a deer collison accident. Which means that I have statistically cheated death twice.
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You are 85% likely to die in a deer collison accident.
DUUUUUUDE!WTF! 
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Not in Texas, they're all midgets. Most of the deer I hit here aren't even worth takin' home. 
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I came back from Sandpoint, ID to Thompson Falls, MT in the pickup around 9 pm a few Sundays ago. I saw so many deer standing alongside the highway, it was reminder why I rarely ride in certain locations after dark.
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Which means that I have statistically cheated death twice.
Why are you deliberately tempting fate.....you know about third time lucky....now spit, turn round three times jump up and down, touch wood, swap all the stuff in your pockets from one to another, lie on your back and bark like a dog ...dunno if any will really help you but it would be kind of funny watchin a grown man makin a fool of himself...just be careful ..... 
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I had heard the fatality rate was closer to 50% but that's still very scary.
If you don't have them already, install running lights on your bike if you ride where & when deer are active. The lights will help light up the roadsides where the deer are waiting to jump in front of you.
Ride safe guys.
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Not in Texas, they're all midgets. Most of the deer I hit here aren't even worth takin' home.
Now...COME ON, Jackson!!! What are you sayin' here??? 
I was always told EVERYTHING'S BIGGER in TEXAS!!! 
("midget deer" he says....I think this boy is tryin' to ruin my whole image of The Lone Star State, if'n ya ask ME!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Which means that I have statistically cheated death twice.
Why are you deliberately tempting fate.....you know about third time lucky....now spit, turn round three times jump up and down, touch wood, swap all the stuff in your pockets from one to another, lie on your back and bark like a dog ...dunno if any will really help you but it would be kind of funny watchin a grown man makin a fool of himself...just be careful .....
And it is impossible to lick your elbow.
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The definition of Midget is a Texan with all the BS kicked out of him. 
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I've hit and killed two of the ba****ds over the years. Fortunately, when in my Jeep. They are going crazy in this area. It is impossible to grow flowers and shrubs around here. No sooner do you put them in the ground and they eat them. I vote for a 12 month open season.
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I've hit and killed two of the ba****ds over the years. Fortunately, when in my Jeep. They are going crazy in this area. It is impossible to grow flowers and shrubs around here. No sooner do you put them in the ground and they eat them. I vote for a 12 month open season.
You don't even wanna know what I vote for...  mrmpf: 
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Please tell us, it should be entertaining. Every time "culling the heard" comes up, the tree huggers get upset and point out they the deer were here first. Oh yeah? When was the last time they made a mortgage payment? When was the last time they did anything to add to the betterment of life for the world? I don't get it.
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Deer love to ride - my friend Glenn and his wife were on his HD and a large buck dove off of a bank and landed directly on the bike and the riders . They were life - flighted (not the deer) to a trauma center , they recovered well , but haven't returned to riding .
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I've got 3 confirmed kills, 2 by car and 1 by motorcycle, I,ve hit 2 more by car. I don't hunt but have better stats than some of my hunting buddies. My bike has spotlights on front that really light up the road. The deer I killed on my bike wasn't a casual roadside grazer but must have been on a run when she landed in front of me. I wish I could remember how it went down. Anyway, the deer population is too high. Mississippi highways are littered with thousands of carcasses each year costing travelers, insurance companies, individuals, lost wages, and road maintanance departments hundreds of thousands of dollars or more every year. Not to mention the number of motorists and bikers who die as a result if deer collisions. Its about time someone in animal conservation was held accountable. Maybe then responsible action will be taken to adequately monitor and control the deer population.
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I've hit and killed two of the ba****ds over the years. Fortunately, when in my Jeep. They are going crazy in this area. It is impossible to grow flowers and shrubs around here. No sooner do you put them in the ground and they eat them. I vote for a 12 month open season.
I live in upstate NY, and they are everywhere around here. I worry as much about deer as I do about other drivers. It would take a couple of years of open season to put a significant dent in the population here. I've only hit one, and that was when I was driving my jeep. It happened so fast, that all I had time to do was slam on my brakes and duck. It hit me just behind the front wheel on the driver’s side. Into the windshield and caved it in, and then bounced off. I was lucky though, a friend who is an emt told me that about a week earlier one went through a windshield and came close to decapitating a guy. I shudder to think of what the results would have been if I had been on my bike. I wont say kill em all, but knocking off about 3/4 of em would be fine with me.
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I started a program here, we have been rounding up deer and sending them to south east Iowa to stem the shortage they have there.
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Please tell us, it should be entertaining. Every time "culling the heard" comes up, the tree huggers get upset and point out they the deer were here first. Oh yeah? When was the last time they made a mortgage payment? When was the last time they did anything to add to the betterment of life for the world? I don't get it.
Sorry Mark, but I'm a bit confused about your questions here! Were you askin' about the deer or the tree huggers here, dude??? 
('cause if you were askin' about the deer, well, maybe you didn't know this but most o' THEM only RENT...and if you're askin' about the tree huggers, well, they DO keep trees nice and warm, ya know?!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Not here, here they are squatters.
As for the tre huggers, what they don't realize or don't want to realize is we have eliminated most natural predation thus many many more will starve due to lack of resources over the winter if their numbers are not controlled. I am a long time member of PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)
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Well Ian, I agree with ya about controlling their numbers(through hunting especially), HOWEVER, I have NEVER EVER tasted a ANY friggin' deer meat that was "tasty"...EVER!!!!
Nope, not EVEN after it's had the crap pounded out of it in order to tenderize it, AND/OR has been marinaded a week and a friggin' half in "somebody's secret ingredient" marinade sauce!!!
(that stuff SUCKS!!!...Give me a friggin' REAL STEAK anytime, dude!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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The secret to good deer meat is where it has been living and what it has been feeding on. A deer that has been running up and down mountains and eating bark to survive will not taste as good as a deer that has been living in a farm area feeding on corn, alfalfa, soy beans and the like. The deer I used to hunt lived in an old Xmas tree farm that has over grown and bordered our corn fields. All they did was wake up walk out into our field and eat then back to the pines to bed down. That was really good meat! My favorite and the heart was the best part, cubed and fried with some butter and onions.
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I got delayed while on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and ended up riding in a cloud full of rain after dark to find the cabin. I swear I saw at least a half dozen deer per mile. A couple of 'em looked at me as if to say: "What are you doing out here at night a-- h---." "It's our road now."
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You can't blame me. I shoot one every year. Sometimes two depending on the mood I'm in. Heck If I'm going to get my hands bloody gutting one might as well gut a second right?
Other states should look at Missouri's conservation department. It's the best one out there.
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Other states should look at Missouri's conservation department. It's the best one out there.
Why do you say that? Not disputing it just curious.
My mom and step dad both hunt. I haven't in years but always get the hearts and liver from them as well as some other meat.They each get a buck and a doe unless they are allowed more that year. My step dads one son also hunts. So if we have 1 or 2 extra here guess you could blame me.
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to stem the shortage they have there.
Ya got me, Ian. Speaking of stems..., are you sure your's isn't wound just a leeeeeetle too tight? 
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Well Ian, I agree with ya about controlling their numbers(through hunting especially), HOWEVER, I have NEVER EVER tasted a ANY friggin' deer meat that was "tasty"...EVER!!!!
Nope, not EVEN after it's had the crap pounded out of it in order to tenderize it, AND/OR has been marinaded a week and a friggin' half in "somebody's secret ingredient" marinade sauce!!!
(that stuff SUCKS!!!...Give me a friggin' REAL STEAK anytime, dude!!!!)
I dunno Dwight. I lived on the west slope of the Colorado Rockies for the first 13 years of my life and we ate more wild game than we did beef or pork by a considerable margin.
I always enjoyed the venison. But Like Ian says, a lot has to do with what they eat, as well as the care of the meat after the animal is killed. The sagebrush eating mulies in Nevada ain't that great.
(But I do prefer a USDA Prime rib eye, rare. )
Oh, and a nicely prepared quality venison chop is complimented very well by a glass of Laphroaig
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Mmmmmmmm...."rib eye". NOW you're talkin', dude!!! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight with all them LA deer eating smog and asphalt it's no wonder they taste like crap! On the serious side my son had to lay his bike down two weeks ago to keep from hitting a deer. You have to be vigilant all the time.
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I guess I am now going to officially "jinx" myself...
I have never hit a deer unless you count the dead one I ran over in the middle of a highway. On the bike, no less. Deer stink while cooking on hot motorcycle parts.
I have seen them lined up along the side of the road as I was coming home from work after midnight - more times than I can count. I have had one jump out in front of me and run ahead of me down the road - I could have smacked it in the butt. I saw two run ****** bent for election at a bike in front of me, one passed in front, the other behind. I came upon a spotted fawn (sounds like a children's song, 'eh?) that appeared in a blind bend in the road. We challenged each other to a bleating contest. It was a draw...
I had one recently run across the road in front of me where I could see it in plenty of time - looked like a tree trunk shot out of a cannon. I came upon 2 standing by a stop sign, young 'uns. I told them to get back in the woods. They looked at me like deer in the headl... er, the way deer look at people. I blipped the throttle on the bike and they took off like they were on fire. I saw 4 walking down the road in front of my house when I was outside working in the yard. I asked them how they were and told them they'd be safer in the woods. My wife said the neighbors probably think I'm nuts. The neighbors may be good judges of character..
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My wife and I call each other "dear". We're funny like that. One day while we were driving down a local road she said "dear". I said "what?". She said "Dear!". I said "WHAT?". She said "DEER!!!"...
I stopped. The deer moved on. I told her "Next time say SQUIRREL!!!"....
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Hit a lit-ul one on a bike in my invincible slow down for nothing 20 something years. My headlight vs. her head. I won, but only by virtue of an adrenalin induced death grip. "Normal' people would have gone back home. A 1/2 hour later (booty run destination) my girlfriend said, "you're white as a ghost, what happened?"
My reply, something like: "Hommina hommina hommina"
In cars & trucks at odd hours, especially at twilight - I've had at least a half dozen deer strikes. (I live in cow corn country, one of their favorite foods.) I was climbing a hill with a loaded dry bulk tank, and one ran into the road along side the trailer, as if to race. I looked in the left mirror and at first thought, J---- that's a long legged dog. She then turned & jumped in front of... never mind. Yuck
They seem to like the breaks in the armco guard rails as a place to cross, and everywhere else for that matter. For such a beautiful wild animal, they sure are stoop-it when it comes to moving vehicles.
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I alos live in upstate NY and agree that the deer are seriously overpopulated.
They are in my yard right now as I type this, eating the birdfood from the feeders. Friggin varmits. They are the reason I rarely ride around dawn or dusk. Heck, night riding is out of the question all together.
Had a good friend cut a big one in half with his HD a few years back, he and his wife spent all summer in traction and in bed waiting for the numerous broken bones to heal, wasn't pretty. But he and his wife are back to riding. Fall off a horse, get back on, hit a deer, have a barbeque.
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I was coming home at Twilight, along MT Hwy 200 a "few" years ago, in a 3/4 T Ford pick up. 3-4 whitetail does were wandering aimlessly on the asphalt. I eventually came to a dead stop, while they finished what they were up to. One doe did a fancy "never-seen-before-or-since" whirley-gig dance, fell on the pavement next to the driver's door. She got up, head spinning and ran smack into the side of the pickup bed, making a nice little dimple. I guess the collision knocked the bearings back in place, as she trotted off happily to rejoin her sorority sisters jh
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My wife and I call each other "dear". We're funny like that. One day while we were driving down a local road she said "dear". I said "what?". She said "Dear!". I said "WHAT?". She said "DEER!!!"...
I stopped. The deer moved on. I told her "Next time say SQUIRREL!!!"....
Now that's funny, I had the EXACT same thing happen to me (uhhh, with my wife ) as I was driving my work truck. She says, "Deer", and I slowly turn my atttention from the song on the radio to listen to her, when she says "DEER!!! Too late. Ford truck 1, deer 0.
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One of my many complaints about the deer problem is that I used to love riding at night in the summer. Cooler, less traffic, romantic if the wife is along, quietly calming.... Now, I hardly EVER ride at night. The population we see here at night makes it really dangerous to ride, as opposed to just twenty years ago when I hardly ever saw one at night.
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In cars & trucks at odd hours, especially at twilight - I've had at least a half dozen deer strikes. (I live in cow corn country, one of their favorite foods.) I was climbing a hill with a loaded dry bulk tank, and one ran into the road along side the trailer, as if to race. I looked in the left mirror and at first thought, J---- that's a long legged dog. She then turned & jumped in front of... never mind. Yuck
I had a similar experience in the wrecker. Had a full size 80s Dodge pick up on the hook when a seer came out and ran along side for a while. The stupid thing jumped between the back of my truck and the one on the hook. You can imagine the outcome.
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I had a similar experience in the wrecker. Had a full size 80s Dodge pick up on the hook when a seer came out and ran along side for a while. The stupid thing jumped between the back of my truck and the one on the hook. You can imagine the outcome.
Well, no I can't. Perhaps you could paint a fairly elaborate mental picture with words of the outcome so my bloodlust for the little devils can be sated! 
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OK her we go, I'll try and be as graphic and gory as I can. I'll try not to miss any detail........SPLAT!
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I started a program here, we have been rounding up deer and sending them to south east Iowa to stem the shortage they have there.
Crimony don't do that. That's entirely too close to Central Iowa.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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My wife and I call each other "dear". We're funny like that. One day while we were driving down a local road she said "dear". I said "what?". She said "Dear!". I said "WHAT?". She said "DEER!!!"...
I stopped. The deer moved on. I told her "Next time say SQUIRREL!!!"....
Now that's funny, I had the EXACT same thing happen to me (uhhh, with my wife ) as I was driving my work truck. She says, "Deer", and I slowly turn my atttention from the song on the radio to listen to her, when she says "DEER!!! Too late. Ford truck 1, deer 0.
Sounds to me like it's time for you two guys to tell your wives that your new pet names are NOW goin' to be..."Snookums"!!! 
(yep...I'm thinkin' THAT just might clear up any confusion you'll have the next time those dang deer wanna play chicken with ya out there while she's ridin' shotgun!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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