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09-15-2014, 10:49 AM | #17 |
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Progressive is very good to work with - just takes a little time - They took care of me when I went in the ditch . . .
Glad you are OK . . .
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09-15-2014, 02:06 PM | #18 |
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Well now you got a battle story to swap!
On my second deer strike I got to see my last beloved Nomad do cartwheels, summersets and break dance! I slid down the road for a few feet on my back and arm, then the patch of poison oak on the road side broke my slide. I rolled over in it and crawled out of it on my elbows. Nationwide did me right on everything.
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09-15-2014, 03:07 PM | #20 |
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....I know THIS will -once again- cause a storm of opinions !
I have 'DEER WHISTLES" mounted under my floor boards...(never hit a deer or coyote..came close tho...(skunks and coons are deaf) Login or Register to Remove Ads |
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09-15-2014, 10:24 PM | #21 | |
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It's like a large sack of flour hits you, except it's maybe a 100~ pound well toned fury woodland creature. It killed both deer. I reckon me and the second one butted heads or something.
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I think maybe the damn stupid deer didn't know to run FROM a whistle.
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09-15-2014, 10:46 PM | #23 |
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Deer can't hear them just as we can't. It's a scam.
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09-15-2014, 11:23 PM | #24 |
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..Well it's sure true that skunks and coons cant hear them...I aint had the misfortune to cross path's with an Armadillo..yet !
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09-16-2014, 12:43 AM | #25 |
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Yesterday I slowed down for a big squirlly calf near the road, slowly passed him, started to accellerate when a young doe appeared from behind some brush and panicked at the rumble of my bike and zig-zagged in the road in front of me. There's probably a good chance we would have met unfavorably if I hadn't slowed down for the calf. Most of these critters graze in the bar ditches in the evening and panic when a cruiser comes by and are bent on jumping in your lap.
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09-16-2014, 02:56 PM | #26 |
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I think so too.
Both of 'em died with a kind of "What the fuuuu?" look on their faces.
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09-16-2014, 11:41 PM | #27 |
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..Well so far so good, for me...but I'll keep knocking on my woodie..just for added luck !
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09-17-2014, 01:40 AM | #28 |
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Wow! Glad to read you're ok. Truly blessed!
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Trust me, God especially watches after idiots. I'm proof in the pudding. Ain't run across an air tight argument yet.
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09-18-2014, 07:34 PM | #30 |
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...I dont -disagree with the possibiliy, that so far I'm "just lucky"..It could also be that ..I ride so slow..seldom at night...and the gods that screw with me..just dont want to have to deal with me...face to face ! (But I'hm a comin..they cant force me to live forever..)
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