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For the last few years on Memorial Day my brother Bob and I have ridden down to where my mother, and all our relatives on her side of the family, are buried. I guess his participation is out of the question this year. Last weekend he and his wife Kathy were riding through NW Iowa (each on their own Harley Super Glide) when two deer jumped out in front of them. Kathy did ok but a deer jumped through Bobs fairing and hit him in the chest. Slight concussion, no broken bones and a night in the Dubuque hospital. With two black eyes he looks like a raccoon.  He was doing about 40 MPH on a curve and had no time to react. This is the third time in 30 years he's had an encounter with a deer but the first time he's been hurt. I think he needs to paint little deer on the side of his bike. He used to be an anti helmet guy but thank God he was wearing one this time. It’s not just the cagers out to get you, the local fauna target us too.
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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Re: Deer Slayer
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Fe Butt
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So your brother got a "Natty Bumppo" on his noggin, huh? Get it???!!!  Natty "BUMPPO", on his noggin'?! ....James Fenimore Cooper?!  .....DEERSLAYER???!!!!  OH, NEVER MIND!!!!  Cheers, Dwight (Glad to hear your bro's okay. That sounds like it could'a been a WHOLE LOT WORSE!!!)  
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, PLEEEEEZE tell us that one was your last Mohican...
JB
"Long live the Duck Force!"
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Re: Deer Slayer
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Fe Butt
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Well "Hawkeye" Bullen, At LEAST there's ONE person out there who remembers their 8TH GRADE reading assignment, HUH?! Cheers, Dwight (and evidently can appreciate my 8th Grade humor, TOO!)
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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Learned Hand
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humph (thats one step below LOL)
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Adjunct
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I think he needs to paint little deer on the side of his bike.
Somewhere in Iowa, there's a deer with a little motorcycle stenciled on it's butt.
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Greenhorn
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I think he needs to paint little deer on the side of his bike.
Somewhere in Iowa, there's a deer with a little motorcycle stenciled on it's butt.
LOL, that's a funny thought. Seriously though, OP's friend is damn lucky. I hit a deer in 91 traveling from Austin to Houston (I-71 just outside Bastrop, TX) on a Honda VFR750 rice rocket. I remember I was freezing my @$$ in early December. The deer "rut" was on, and it was almost dusk. I had just begun my decent on a hill when I saw her in the right lane staring at me. I was doing around 75-80 when I switched off the brights. As soon as that happened, she dove straight into me (decreased to 60-70). The deer broadsided me, exploding my mirror, cracking my fairing, & breaking my right shin. How I didn't go down I will never know. My best guess is I had forward momentum on my side. My bike bounced twice before I could regain control & park it in the median. After I checked my drawers, I walked toward the doe lying in the median grass. I got about 10 ft from it, and she took off across the westbound highway, almost causing another accident. I didn't even feel the pain in the leg until I got home 2 hours later. Adrenaline, it's a hell of a drug
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Bar Shake
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Well "Hawkeye" Bullen,
At LEAST there's ONE person out there who remembers their 8TH GRADE reading assignment, HUH?!
Cheers,
Dwight
(and evidently can appreciate my 8th Grade humor, TOO!)
Well, he was also known (mostly by the Indians) as "La Longue Carabine". That's French ya know 
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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