Killed a deer, now I feel bad
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You Frenchies just shoot and eat anything that moves though, amirite?
Yup, especially loaves of bread resting strategically on their girlfriends...
My bare hands!
No, a shotgun - I've never been deer hunting, but would like to but in this country it seems to be less easy to do than going hunting for pheasants for example.Anyway this is straying off subject.
youre kidding? drive through the new forest for example where the roads (some national limit) are lined by forest in the pitch black and see if you can spot any deer.
normally you might get lucky and see the headlights catch their eyes but often you dont see them stood just in the tree line until youre passing them. and if they decide to bolt into the road you dont have much chance.
I've been hunting, it's great. People are so detached from what it means to have meat on your plate. I've been hunting not just to kill the animal, but to eat the kill we do get.
As for running the deer over, it's a shame but it happens. As for not liking venison?! What on earth?!Once of the nicest meats out there!
This, it really needs to be taught in schools. We have to many rabbits. so make general studies relevant. Teach catching rabbits with a simple trap then butchering it. Also teach finances and other general life skills. Rather than the pointless stuff I did in GS which was utterly meaningless and pointless.
He DIDN'T miss !
I have "come across" a deer lying in the middle of the A43 between Duddington & Weldon (Corby) at 03:00. It must have been hit hard but wasn't dead. It was frothing at the mouth and was clearly in agony (broken hips ?). I had no idea what to do and when a van slowed down I left the scene. I came back about half hour later and it was gone so I assumed Mr Van Man & associate chucked it in the back ?
Not long ago I was travelling north on the A1 (nr Woolfox depot) and there was a deer starting to run out onto the A1. I figured that if I tried to move into Lane 2 I'd simply hit it square on as that was the way it was running so I nearly put the truck in the ditch going behind it.
WHAAAAAACK !! It made such a bang and I got that sick feeling in my gut that I've just killed Bambi. There was a LayBy immediately afterwards and I pulled in to inspect the damage and see if the deer's still there.
No damage and Bambi had gone so I assume I gave him a "helping hand" across the highway !! I must have just clipped it.
Birds.. Get hit all the time. I swear they try and race you !!
Two funny bird (owl) incidents stick out in my memory.
Once again it was 03:00 and I'd just turned onto the A43 at duddington when out of the darkness a chuffing great white owl went splat into my windshield (was still doing the manouver so was only going about 20mph). It scared the living bejesus out of me as I watched it richochet into the siderow.
Be buggered if the very next morning EXACTLY the same thing happened AGAIN !
I thought that owl must be thinking "What a **** week I'm having" !!
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I once hit a bird of some kind whilst on my bike - had my visor not been down I dare say it would have been painful and potentially dangerous.
Was she ok?
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I hit a deer a fair few years ago & I did stop, I looked about all over the place for it but couldn't find it or hear it so I came home. When I got home I rang the RSPCA & they told me that if I couldn't see it then it probably just legged it off even though I had hit it with my car. Apparently they can take a fair big hit & not be injured apart from the shock of it.
I hit a deer a fair few years ago & I did stop, I looked about all over the place for it but couldn't find it or hear it so I came home. When I got home I rang the RSPCA & they told me that if I couldn't see it then it probably just legged it off even though I had hit it with my car. Apparently they can take a fair big hit & not be injured apart from the shock of it.
i remember there was a similar incident on one of those "road cop" type programs.
a pheasant had flown out and impacted the riders helmet knocking him off into a ditch with pretty serious injuries if i remember rightly.
I decapitated a fox with the front splitter of a Mazda 3, that was rather messy.... He ran out in front of me on the A2 when I was doing about 70, so there was no option but to hit him. Almost no damage at all, which I was extremely surprised by!
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I clipped a [TW] Fox once, it was just laid on the grass verge mumbling about BMW trim options 
saw a dog get hit the other day, was pretty grim the driver never stopped
wrong. the one we saw ran off into the woods, we found it later yelping and barking at us getting all defensive. It had to be put down later that night when they're in shock they can last a fair while till it hits them.
the driver never stoppedwrong. the one we saw ran off into the woods, we found it later yelping and barking at us getting all defensive. It had to be put down later that night
when they're in shock they can last a fair while till it hits them.
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A mate was on the road 10 or so minutes after me, said the deer was still on the floor not moving so I assume it did properly die, rather than get up and suffer or anything horrible like that.
Damage is a new bumper to fix the crack which equals £4 a month extra tax to me. Will be a bit annoying having to be in a courtesy car for a day or two but ultimately not too bad.
I don't even really know how to avoid an incident like this. Had I been going 20mph It still would have leaped out directly in front of my and headbutted the car, it perhaps wouldn't have cracked my bumper though. Will have to go a wee bit slower where the hedgerow is high I guess.
Damage is a new bumper to fix the crack which equals £4 a month extra tax to me. Will be a bit annoying having to be in a courtesy car for a day or two but ultimately not too bad.
I don't even really know how to avoid an incident like this. Had I been going 20mph It still would have leaped out directly in front of my and headbutted the car, it perhaps wouldn't have cracked my bumper though. Will have to go a wee bit slower where the hedgerow is high I guess.
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I clipped a [TW] Fox once, it was just laid on the grass verge mumbling about BMW trim options
My mates a bit eco-mental and suggested I should try "Road kill" to try and save the planet..!!! I didn't fancy it in the summer, I just reckoned stuff would go off far too quickly. Anyway took ages to spot something that looked like it might be worth risking. It actually didn't taste too bad. Still not worked out what to do with the mountain bike bike though..
The worst animal I've yet to hit was a sparrow in the MX5 - it got scooped under the bumper and properly wedged itself in the plastic bumper undertray bit - I was picking out feathers for months.
I was in my dad's car with him driving when he hit a deer once. Punted it right across the road into someone's garden, but not a mark on his car (a Hyundai Accent) :/
I hate the idea of running any living creature over though, no matter how small. Obviously realistically on busy roads you've got little choice, but I've pretty much stopped for birds along traffic-free side roads before, and I was held up by a rather defiant squirrel who didn't get out of my way as I was entering my driveway until I honked the horn at him!
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This, I've had a shed load of bambi's launch themselves across the road in my van, didn't hit any but it does poo you up a little!