OT-Holy Cow...make that deer!

Re: OT-Holy Cow...make that deer!

Todd Hughes

>I once had a deer jump right into the side of my jeep on the way home from an auction.Put a small dent in the side. I stopped and picked the dead deer, a small buck, up and tossed it in the back on top of some saws with his head between the front seat.

....Get home and tell my wife to come out and look at what I got, she stands in the doorway and I grab the deer legs to drag him out of the jeep and she yelled that it was still alive.Yea Sure I figure, but soon as I tossed him on the ground he gets up! and starts running in tight circles bouncning off our cars and bawling it's head off. Our dogs looking out the windows are going crazy and my wife is yelling at me to get a gun and shoot it.I ran in my shop and grabed a 3 lb. ball pein hammer and went back out grabbed the deers ear and smacked him a few times upside the head with the hammer and soon had the situation under controll.

I don't think my wife ever did believe me that I thought the deer was dead when I put it in the jeep.....Todd...who killed one with a pitch fork and 2 with his pocket knife

Re: OT-Holy Cow...make that deer!

Rob in Kansas

>Well this is the most unusual deer experience I've had. The deer are very thick around here now, but in the middle of downtown? Somebody said he bounced off the doors of the bank building next door, ran into the street, then went straight for this big window. This is an old building where the first floor window is right on the street level. I'm not sure if a car scared it, or if he saw a reflection and needed to chalenge the "other" buck. When I got down I could hear he was still trying to get out. By the time I got outside and carefully looked in he was passed out on the floor. With all the blood I'm sure he didn't last too long.

The two women in the office thought a bomb went off or a car hit the building. I still don't see how the one missed getting hit!

Anyway the securtiy officer took it home to gut and process. He better share some deer sausage with us!

Re: OT-Holy Cow...make that deer!

Todd Hughes

>I saw on CNN last night a show about the risk of hitting deer while driving and about how many deer there are out there everywhere.Had a tape taken from a security camera of a buck deer walking down the escalator steps in a Washington DC metro staion and running down the train platform!....Todd

they eat good, no matter

bill tindall

>On the way to a concert one evening the person in front of us hit one and went on. Wife and I loaded it into the trunk without a drop of blood getting on her white dress. Took it home, changed, cleaned and quartered it, showered and weren't even late for the concert.

Re: they eat good, no matter

Mike G in SC

>When I was in Germany about 25 years ago, we had one of those little "raybucks",( a very tiny deer about the size of a medium dog), leap into the side of our car early one morning on the way to work. The Germans don't like it when you hit their deer with a car. Go figure. We had to hunt up the local "forest meister" to tell him about the incident. We also didn't get to keep the deer. Evidently they give roadkill deer to the orphanages.

Mike G.

Different attitude in TN

bill tindall

>Last year TN made national news when the legislature passed a law making it legal to retrieve road kills, on the spot. It was refered to in the news, colorfully, as the "road kill bill". In the past one had to call Fish and Game and get a permit and then go fetch the road kill, by which time some good ole boy had long since fetched it in his pickup truck. Someone got fined for loading up a road kill before permit application, so they complained to their representative, who got the new law.

Re: Different attitude in TN

Randy Johnson

>Does that law apply all year or just during hunting season?

As far as I know Indiana still requires a permit to pick up a roadkill but our DNR is a little crazy in most aspects.

Risks of hitting a deer and

Bruce, a MN Galoot

>motorcycling. There's a reason motorcyclists refer to deer as pea-brained, cloven-hooved ditch rats. Hit a deer with a car and go to the body shop. Hit a deer with a bike and maybe go to the morgue.

Bruce, 1981 Goldwing.

Re: Risks of hitting a deer and

Rob in Kansas

>I saw some pics of a King Air (aircraft) that hit a deer on either take off or landing I'll see if I can find a link and post it. Sure made a mess of a nice aircraft.

Re: they eat good, no matter

Victor Parisian

>Our scout leader used to tell of working the night shift in a factory in a rural area that was thick with wild game. On the way to work if he spotted a road kill he would stop and mark it with chalk or paint. In the morning on the way home, any road kill that wasn't marked was fresh enough for him. True story?? It sure amused the scout troop.

By the way, he also used to gather the "stale" ones for a big vulture feeding roost he had devised. He would sometimes store these in his freezer if the roadkill were plentyful for those lean times. Figured it was better than someone loosing a headlight to a buzzard (not to mention the buzzard loosing it's life).

Regards from Pearland,

Victor

Good Eat no matter part 2 *LINK*

Brad in Ottawa

>Try this link for someone who could have used a ball pein hammer!

Brad


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/11/02/1289632-ap.html

or a bucksaw

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

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