My favorite uncle was killed 2 years ago when he hit an antelope on his Harley. Really not cool, hunting is only taking a small part of the ridiculous amount of overpopulation. Support your local sportsman, buy him an extra tag, pay for some processing and enjoy some tasty, all natural, low fat animal meat! Sure beats hitting one with your 2 ton bullet.
flh4speed-that is hilarious. I had a 2 friends who had a deer feeder and a bobcat was spooking the deer, so they put out some traps-not live traps. They go back in a week and there is a VERY angry, hungry, thirsty and seiously P.O.'ed Bob the Cat caught by the paw. One of the friens is off checking the other traps, so genius #1 thinks "I want have this thing mounted, and don't want a bullet hole in it-I'll just choke it to death". Did I mention they both had .22 mag lever action rifles, no pistols. So-buddy #2 shows up and The Genius has LONG AGO figured out that not only can he not choke this bobcat, he cannot let go of it! The Genius has the cat in one hand, and is trying to line up it's head and the muzzle of the rifle, while pulling the trigger with the thumb of his other hand! Buddy#1 walked up on this scene and said " what in the hell are you doing?" Genius says "you gotta shoot this cat!" Genius does have cat mounted, but it does have a bullet hole in it. True story.
Here's mine. 2 weeks ago, 20 miles north of Okeechobee on 441 at 50 miles an hour. There were 3 in the road, I basically had to pick which one to hit. I broke its neck, and the impact threw it onto the shoulder.
I draw my fair share of blood, but only from humans who deserve it... Come to think of it the last guy who got his wig pushed back called me a douche...
Out in Edmonton this year racing , we had a extra day before we had to get the cars ready , Me & 2 other crew members took a day trip up to Jasper . On the way there we saw a lot of animals big & small . On the way back to Edmonton about 1am a very large Cougar ran across the highway about 20 ft in front of us . Never seen one that big on TV or anywhere , True Story
I would have shot the dam thing and had a freezer full of venison. to the people who think they are cute and cuddly, why don't you try this?
I know women who are "cute and cuddly" but if you try and throw a rope around their head and drag them into your bedroom they're gonna put up a fight too, and probably knock you out. It's pretty simple, you don't want to get your ass kicked by a deer, don't to wrangle one. Human's are supposed to be the more intelligent creature, why not act like it for a change?
hey 7"chop if i saw that horse coming at me i wouldve thought i was having an acid flashback. was that you in the car driving?
Around these parts we have trouble with Kangaroos. They have no road sense and will cheerfully bound along or across a road. 3 car club friends have hit them recently, one caused the car to be written off (near new Mazda RX8)... though, on the upside, another member of my club signs off permits to export roo meat... 10,000kg at a time! Have had 4 friends on motorbikes hit them... one went down badly, seperating the ball and socket joint in his shoulder, shattering the ball. I've gone close to hitting them while riding my bicycle on the way home from work! Just the other day I was driving down a street nearby in the middle of a suburb and had to come to a halt while a 'roo came up the street towards me... In Australia, 'roos are protected, so not a game species animal, however farmers may apply for permits to cull them from overpopulated areas. Some species are commercially harvested for the table, and actually taste pretty good. Of course, protected from hunting doesn't protect them from cars, and there are plenty lying on the roadsides. The local government policy is to leave them on the road verges unless it is in an urban area. The problem with that is the smell of the rotting corpse when you drive or ride past, and that it attracts other animals like foxes, crows, etc.
Think hitting a deer is bad? Some of us old guys still remember how much damage a brontosaurus can do
So as bad as more then 2/3's of the United States population huh? I think this thread should close unless we have more pictures and on topic stories to add.
They're food...period. In some shape or form for us or for other living creatures they are part of the food chain. If you're killing them out of anger and not to supply yourself or others with food then thats wrong. It isnt any different than it is with cattle, pigs, poultry, etc, etc....all the cute and cuddly crap is just that...its crap. All creatures are kinda cute and cuddly in some way when they are young (well, most all are anyways), its when you lose site of what God put them here for in the first place that we suddenly have issues....nature takes care of itself when its ALLOWED to, and yes that includes letting man use the animals for what they are here for, but we have to have enough common sense to not just go out and wipe out entire species as well.
For all those do gooders and fuzzy animal lovers, Ya know what P.I.T.A. stands for to me? People Eating Tasty Animals.. Pass the gravy
Sorry , off topic - not a deer and not a Hot Rod / Custom and I don't have any details about the driver (can't be good !) How would one avoid a situation like this ? it's a head on hit , what if the driver turned some how (or no time to turn ?) BAD ASS.
When I went to Newfoundland for the Targa race a couple years ago, all the locals told us not to drive at dusk or later, because of the moose. Imagine hitting a horse that's standing on stilts. They weigh about 1,000lbs or more. And they always do what is shown in that pic--you cut their legs out, they come through the windshield. People there do get killed regularly. All the semi trucks had big Mad Max-esque moose guards on the front of their trucks. $2-3,000 per person for a fully guided week-long hunt. I wonder how much meat they yield? One of those in the freezer would significantly cut my grocery bill! AND, I'd eat a lot better than I do now! I'd go from ground beef on sale to Filet Mignon! -Brad
I have had two so far one in the 51 GMC truck which dented in the rear fender and one in the roadster pickup which only took out the front light and bounced off me Here I am with my latest kill
My son lived 20 minutes from Augusta Maine when he first moved up there I kept warning him about looking for Moose in the roads .One weekend when we went up to visit he told me we were going for a ride to see something .He brought me to a local garage where there was a Miata type car that looked like the fire department did extrication practice on.the entire top layer of the car was missing HOOD,WINDSHIELD etc .looked like someone drove it under a low truck.Seems the couple riding in the car hit a Moose standing sideways in the road at night.The accident happened the night before we got there 2 miles from his house and the couple got decapitated.He says"Now I know why you been riding my ass about being carefull of Moose"
I was riding dirt bikes on along the flathead river, at Buffalo Bridges in North Western Montana. We were doing some exploring and both me and a buddy had brand new four strokes, yzf 400s...this was 1999, and they had just come out a year earlier. We were both fresh off 250 two strokes and were amazed at our new abilities to climb hills...Those bikes hooked up man. So I'm leading up the left side of a nasty boulder strewn meadow...when I catch a glimpse of a trail head on my left.... cut it and I'm in the woods...I look back at my buddy and hes right there...I pump my head a couple times, the dirt bike way of say "hell ya, lets go" and we go tearing off this little single track trail... About a hundred yards into this Bitchen little trail, I'm looking around and thinking "oh YA man" whomever cut this trail, did a great job and took out all the branches on the pine trees like up to 12 feet high, "fucking great job" I look back at my buddy, make eye contact, and he's got this look of sheer terror.... I turn around confused and catch a glimpse of movement, then another, and another...."holy SHIT the whole forest is moving" what the? was my last thought before riding straight into the middle of an ELK heard...I stalled the bike...my buddy plows into me, and we both go down... I not fucking kidding...for whatever reason I yelled "stampede" as I was getting augered in to the dirt by my buddy, like any one else was in danger of getting trampled but us. These elk had at least eight foot tall backs, and the ones with racks were like 12 feet total...they bobbed and weaved and started shitting all around us...they were freeked and we were scared for our lives...These creatures are seriously nimble animals because we never got touched and I watched from under my bike as the animals navigated one of the gnarliest, jagged, boulder strewn washes with ease....you couldnt ride a dirt bike down it....we tried and it took us all afternoon and I almost left that bike there with two spilt engine covers. Elk are badass...and if you ever see one respect it...or eat its backstraps, their tastey.
Two weeks ago a buddy of mine had an eight point buck try to jump over him on his mororcycle. Kicked him in the head, knocked the bike over, and broke his arm in three places. Talked to him tonight and he's going to be OK but DAMN!
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