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That house must have lept out of a badger hole right in front of that car. WTF!

How the [bleep] do you not see a 1250 lb black horse standing on a flat highway in broad day light?

Good Weed?

probably happened at night....had a car full of drunk natives smoke 2 or three of them in a group on the road 100 yards from my house when i lived outside of town.....odd thing was we never heard a thing but woke up to a hell of a blood bath in the snow the next morning.....not sure if it was air currents or what but we never heard anything on the highway in that house

One time I came within a couple feet of hitting a black horse at night. It was tethered to a fence for weed control but the rope allowed it to reach the middle of the 1st lane. I was driving an old Jeep CJ3A and I guarantee the horse would have won. The old 6V lights weren't all that bright and I think the outside of the horse was blacker than the inside.

Damn dose guys needs new fence postesses so all does udder guys quit hittin der livestocks too!!

When my young brother was in college he and a friend were driving to the friend's cabin in western SD. At night. They rammed a horse on the Rosebud res with enough of a vehicle to spare their lives but it looked a bit accordion-like the next day.

They motored through the impact with enough awareness after the shock to keep going. As my friend told my brother, "you don't stop on the Rosebud at night."

No. You don't.

True words.

Just came across there this evening.

Or most any reservation for that matter, regardless of the state....unfortunately.

Tarkio: Back in the late 60's and 70's myself and my Hunting partners used to drive on down to the far south east corner of Montana (near Alzada) to shoot a couple of Buck Mule Deer apiece!
We "used to" take the "shortest" route that took us through the Crow Indian Reservation and then immediately through the Northern Cheyenne Indian Resrvation. Sadly we were working types and had to travel that route most often on Saturday evenings -it got to be so dangerous and scary that after a few years of numerous "close call incidents" we consciously decided to take the much longer (but much safer!) route up through Miles City and then turning south through Broadus thus avoiding the dangers that were (and still are!) inherent with travelling on the roads and highways of those two adjacent reservations.
I also "braved" the elements and would travel to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation during spring and summer to Hunt Prairie Dogs thereon - I did this for years but would only drive on the rez during mid-morning and mid-day!
Sad the destruction, human misery and death that alcohol and drugs have plagued Indian folks on these two reservations I know is horrific!
I hope no one was hurt in that horse versus automobile accident (on that straight and level stretch of road???)!
I simply refuse to drive on any road on any Indian Reservation in Montana after dark - its simply a matter of self preservation.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I damn near hit a Bob Cat last night.

Of all the $hit hole countries I visited while in the Marines and all the shady places I have been in my civilian life, I never felt more threatened than I did in Browning Montana, in broad daylight. Even Bethel AK wasn't that bad.

Browntown certainly has its own "flavor" so to speak.

lol most other natives dont like the Blackfoot either......here on the Fort Peck its not quite as bad atleast around Wolf Point. Though i would prolly stay out of the bars for the most part in Poplar at night doesn't bug me to be over there after dark. My sister dated a guy from Sidney in high school and whenever he caught a ride up here with his buddy, his buddy would lock the doors when they hit the rez and refuse to unlock them when until they hit my parents house and then refused to go anywhere without my sister. Guess we have a bit of a reputation here but in reality other than some of the theft and stuff like that its not bad, most the serious stuff is native on native.

What I find hillarouis, is that there is still a satellite dish in the back yard, there should be a tripod around some place with an old car under it, a pack of tic infested mutts roaming also.

Yeah I grew up next to a souix Rez.

It's a interesting town for sure, beautiful county with a amazing amount of misery, violence, and dispare. Pretty much every rez I've been on has been a epic chit hole.

Isn't it strange when you give people everything they need to live they all turn out the same.Doesn't matter what color they all turn into trash. ED K

I've hit a steer, a deer, and a horse - all at night.
Thankfully,I was only doing about 30 mph on a windy road when the horse jumped off the embankment in front of us! We, and the horse, survived.
Impact with a critter of any size WILL result in warped sheet metal, and outgoing $.

I'm gratified for this insight on the safety of traveling in the reservations. I love to just wander across the west, although I haven't had the wherewithal to get out there for years. Without really knowing anything specific, my senses always told me I probably didn't want to go poking down too many rural roads around four corners or etc. Or was I just being paranoid?

I've been removed form the rez scene for 17yrs so I'm not up on anything anymore. But I do know don't stop anywhere on the rez at night I made the mistake on the crow agency but it was a well lit place LOL. On the Navajo indian rez if you get lost you are more apt to get fed Navajo tacos before you get mugged LOL. When I joined the Army holy [bleep] my accent was bad like fresh off the reservation bad. People asked me where you from I said Warm Springs, Oregon its a reservation. Now days listening to them talk cracks me up especially when they try to sound intellectual lol. My wife ex brother in law was that way [bleep] drive me nuts trying to listen to him talk. Took him better part of a day to tell a story lol...

That's funny. Years ago we chartered a boat to take us down on the Alaskan Peninsula - the owner was an old native guy. I grew up in Northern MN and I swear he sounded just like an old Finlander and talked just as slow!