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Southern Idaho is wide open and more often than not, you can see deer before you hit them. It helps but it's not a cure all. So far, I've never hit one but I've had a lot standing on the shoulder looking longingly at my front bumper. Last fall I came within inches of tagging a cow elk one night, though. She was standing on the shoulder with her head in the driving lane. I just about got her with the mirror.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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I've hit a few deer and have had few run into the side of my trucks.
The closest calls I've had was a horse that reared up in dense fog. Had he not reared I would have smoked him.
The other was broad daylight traveling from Glendive, MT to Fort Peck reservoir on a camping trip. Came over a rise doing about 80 mph in the GF's little car and there was a 2000 lb black angus bull standing broadside in the driving lane.
I missed him by inches and he gave ME a dirty look.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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I missed him by inches and he gave ME a dirty look. WTF were you doing on his road?
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire 'Bwana
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A few years ago, while driving home from a vacation in the Colorado mountains, I hit a sage grouse at around 80 mph on a 100 degree late July day. Never saw it, but it hit the bug deflector on the hood and splattered across the windshield, leaving a nasty mess of splattered guts and gut contents that dried almost instantly. It seems like I'm always hitting something on I-76, the worst, well, maybe not the worst, but certainly the most interesting, was having a sagebrush lodge under the car and catch fire on the catalytic converter.
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summer of 76 we were blasting down the highway south of green river wyoming and came over a ridge and went right through a herd of antelope in my brothers 69 chevelle. by the time we came back to get the car the next day, it was a seething mass of festering guts and maggots.
My diploma is a DD214
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Campfire 'Bwana
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summer of 76 we were blasting down the highway south of green river wyoming and came over a ridge and went right through a herd of antelope in my brothers 69 chevelle. by the time we came back to get the car the next day, it was a seething mass of festering guts and maggots. That is an ugly visual!
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Parts started showing up here. I decided to not do the body work and use that ins. money for upgrades. I got a new condenser, grill, header panel, headlights, led smoke taillights, smoke cab lights, steering damper and new shocks, hubcaps, and a fab-fours bumper. The bumper showed up faster than any of the other stuff... new header panel and condenser installed. new stlss wire grille. upgraded '08 towing mirrors. The other stuff is coming in tomorrow, Saturday and Monday... Can't install the bumper till the headlights are in.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Something clever here.
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Parts started showing up here. I decided to not do the body work and use that ins. money for upgrades. Good call!
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Once you put that new bumper on, you'll never hit another deer with that truck.
Something clever here.
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nd, you're prolly right. I busted up the whole front end on a '80 chev taking out a big ol' cow elk. I built a heavy 8" channel iron cow-catcher right after that fiasco. Only hit one measly antelope after that........
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Campfire 'Bwana
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The things a guy has to do.
It's amazing how un-suicidal the critters get when they see that your radiator is off limits.
lol.
Something clever here.
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I like it! Wasn't sure about the grille, but that bumper replacement makes it look just right.
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
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I think those led black taillights look good, too. I haven't done the trick-out deal since I was a pup.....
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Careful...it might eat that Camry if you leave them alone over night.
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
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Careful...it might eat that Camry if you leave them alone over night. Either that or it will make little baby Toyota diesels...
When I die I hope I don't start voting democrat.
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