BkerChuck
Second hand vegetarian
From what I understand they do not work. I have hit a deer and am now in favor of their wholesale slaughter. Sorry if this offends any of you but after my accident I don't really care if I never see another one.
Deer warning whistle
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bgross
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My wife is afraid of dragons, so I hooked up a silent dragon repellant siren in my front yard.
I bet my neighbors are glad that 1) it is silent and doesn't keep them awake at night and 2) it works: there has not been a dragon sighting in our neighborhood in years!
Just trying to do my part for the community. ( it seems to work on Elephants & tigers, too.)
I bet my neighbors are glad that 1) it is silent and doesn't keep them awake at night and 2) it works: there has not been a dragon sighting in our neighborhood in years!
Just trying to do my part for the community. ( it seems to work on Elephants & tigers, too.)
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Mihalis fjr
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I have read about your bad accident and really sorry..!
Sorry about your accident..!
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from a December 2012 report - crikey that is 315 deer PER DAY hit in Pennsylvania.
Hunters killed an estimated 340,000 deer in the 2012-2013 season in Pennsylvania.
Moral of this story boys and girls? Kill them all and let Mother Nature sort it out!
State College, Pa. — Many Pennsylvania hunters complain about deer numbers being too low, but the Keystone State led the country in vehicle-deer collisions again in a recent study.
Motorists hit 115,571 deer on commonwealth roadways between July 1, 2011, and June 30 of this year, according to estimates from the nation’s leading automobile insurance company.
State Farm used its own claims data and state licensed driver figures to compile the statistics.
Behind Pennsylvania, Michigan came in second in collisions with deer over the same period, with 97,856, and northern neighbor New York was third with drivers striking 80,262 whitetails there.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission does not compile similar statistics. Agency wildlife biologists said it’s difficult to get an accurate figure because many vehicle-deer collisions go unreported.
While Pennsylvania motorists hit thousands of whitetails on the state’s roadways, your odds of striking a deer in the Keystone state are 1 in 75.6. That figure, based on the numbers of licensed drivers in the state and the number of deer struck, ranks fifth in the nation.
For the sixth year in a row, West Virginia topped the list of states where a motorist is most likely to run into a deer. State Farm’s data calculated the chances of a West Virginia motorist striking a deer over the next 12 months at 1 in 40, compared with 1 in 48 the year before.
South Dakota moved from third to second on the list. The likelihood of a licensed driver in that state hitting a deer within the next year is 1 in 68.
Iowa (1 in 71.9) dropped from second to third, while Michigan (1 in 72.4) was a close fourth, up from fifth in last year’s report.
Pennsylvania dropped one spot to fifth.
In each of the top five states, the rate of deer-related collisions per driver went up from a year ago.
Hunters killed an estimated 340,000 deer in the 2012-2013 season in Pennsylvania.
Moral of this story boys and girls? Kill them all and let Mother Nature sort it out!
State College, Pa. — Many Pennsylvania hunters complain about deer numbers being too low, but the Keystone State led the country in vehicle-deer collisions again in a recent study.
Motorists hit 115,571 deer on commonwealth roadways between July 1, 2011, and June 30 of this year, according to estimates from the nation’s leading automobile insurance company.
State Farm used its own claims data and state licensed driver figures to compile the statistics.
Behind Pennsylvania, Michigan came in second in collisions with deer over the same period, with 97,856, and northern neighbor New York was third with drivers striking 80,262 whitetails there.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission does not compile similar statistics. Agency wildlife biologists said it’s difficult to get an accurate figure because many vehicle-deer collisions go unreported.
While Pennsylvania motorists hit thousands of whitetails on the state’s roadways, your odds of striking a deer in the Keystone state are 1 in 75.6. That figure, based on the numbers of licensed drivers in the state and the number of deer struck, ranks fifth in the nation.
For the sixth year in a row, West Virginia topped the list of states where a motorist is most likely to run into a deer. State Farm’s data calculated the chances of a West Virginia motorist striking a deer over the next 12 months at 1 in 40, compared with 1 in 48 the year before.
South Dakota moved from third to second on the list. The likelihood of a licensed driver in that state hitting a deer within the next year is 1 in 68.
Iowa (1 in 71.9) dropped from second to third, while Michigan (1 in 72.4) was a close fourth, up from fifth in last year’s report.
Pennsylvania dropped one spot to fifth.
In each of the top five states, the rate of deer-related collisions per driver went up from a year ago.
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Mihalis fjr
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beemerdons
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+1, Gunny; Bret's The Man, ever since Seth and I hit a mule deer with our BMW K1600GT up in Torrey, UT with ShinyPartsUp and the rest of the Southwest FJR Forum Crew I've run a minimum of two deer whistles on each of mi Motos! Haven't hit another deer yet, so just like the silent dragon repellant siren: They do work!
Since I also snorkel and skin dive in Hawaii and Mexico a lot I religiously wear a Great White shark tooth around my neck and this also works, doesn't work on large stingrays though!
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Placebos. A friend sent me some kangaroo whistles when he was in Australia. I put them in my tank bag; unopened. Since that time I have never seen a kangaroo. This proves they work as well as deer whistles.
Neil San Diego
One of "...those guys..."
Don't forget about gremlin bells! I have never seen a gremlin in the vicinity of a Harley so they must work. Might just work on forest rats as well...
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not likely but a lot of them do bear a great resemblance to a gnome!! Mostly the wimmen folk though.
bluesdog
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No evidence deer whistles do anything to decrease deer strikes.
This idea, OTOH, may have some merit:
This idea, OTOH, may have some merit:
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beemerdons
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You know what Guys, you are really hurting Don Carver and BikerGeek99 Andy's feelings with this kind of anti-HD talk! Please, do be kind!
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ionbeam
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In northern New England and Canada a big problem is when the deer go and get their big brother to wander out in the road to kick your ***. When you have a set of horns like this some biker's little whistle is going to seem silly.
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Bungie
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Moose are in season right now. Guaranteeing you their will be no moose within 150 miles of you. Besides, those damn things are as blind as bats. They rarely 'jump out' on the road at you. They kind of saunter into it, then stare at the Peterbilt bearing down on them with it's horns and lights in full wail. They'll usually realize the Peterbilt is much bigger and wander off. Usually. During the rut, they'll get a big bonor and try to mount said oncoming Peterbilt.In northern New England and Canada a big problem is when the deer go and get their big brother to wander out in the road to kick your ***. When you have a set of horns like this some biker's little whistle is going to seem silly.
Unless it's the middle of winter, in which case they'll get a speeding Peterbilt up the poop chute because they tongues are frozen to the hwy attempting to lick the salt off it.
A Møøse once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
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HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
I have seen deer run into the side of a fully open pipe harley doing 50+ on a road. Deer are the stupidest animals alive. Deer whistles do nothing to scare them away. I have also seen a deer stand and not move after a rifle shot that took down his buddy. Sometimes they run, sometimes they just sit and then bolt. Like giant oversized rabbits.
ionbeam
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Your Kanada Mooseses must be different than our Mainely and NH Mooseses. A guy I worked with slid his Goldwing under a moose only to get hit by his wife on her bike as she slid under the moose too. The moose was unharmed but they were.
Coming back from CFR a couple of years ago, about 10 miles from the border there was a titanic splat mark on the road with a spiraling trail that ended with Super Size Moose dead across the road. Bungie's afore mentioned Peterbilt had just been towed from the scene.
rushes
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Since 1996, I've hit three of the damned pests with three different bikes (two of the bikes damaged and repairable, one totaled, two of the three deer dead). Tried a Hornet deer whistle https://www.xp3hornet.com/ on my GSX1100G. Passed a doe on the side of Skyline Dr., she gave the bike an amused glance and went back to grazing. You can barely hear it 50 feet away; they pay more attention when I crank up the music through the 4 speakers on my Wing. Best defense I've found is the loudest horn available and hope you see them in time to use it. In my experience, if the horn is blown continuously as I approach one, it usually goes the other way. If I see someone spotlighting them, I keep a spare $20 to donate to them for ammo.
Bungie
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Musta been outta season.
I've seen with my own eyes a full grown whitetail leap in front of/over a transport and leave hoof marks on the hood. The driver will likely never again need black beauties to stay awake.
I've also seen our very own DRC-32 (Denny) come so close to getting tagged by one in SE Ohio that I bet he could've licked it as it went by.
Deer. Are. ********.
HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
I think I may have told you guys this before, but one night a long time ago, I was working and southbound on the freeway behind a semi truck. I saw a flash, and then the windshield of my car was covered with blood, meat and ****. The truck's trailer's brakes locked up and we both came to skidding stops needing to clean out our shorts.
For a split second, I thought I hit a person from the thump at the front of my car. Then I realized the rear of the trailer was covered with blood. I thought, "Good...He hit the person."
Turned out, a doe had run, from the shoulder of the road, underneath the trailer and the right side tires. When she spun underneath the truck and got turned into a ball of doeburger, she cut an air line, which is what caused the trailer brakes to lock up. There were pices of fur, bone and deer all over the hood of my car. I had to go to a carwash to get the blood off. The truck guy and the tow truck guy used a long crow bar to pry the 150+ lbs of deer from inside the wheel well between the two axles.
It was disgusting, and yet another example of how stupid deer are.
For a split second, I thought I hit a person from the thump at the front of my car. Then I realized the rear of the trailer was covered with blood. I thought, "Good...He hit the person."
Turned out, a doe had run, from the shoulder of the road, underneath the trailer and the right side tires. When she spun underneath the truck and got turned into a ball of doeburger, she cut an air line, which is what caused the trailer brakes to lock up. There were pices of fur, bone and deer all over the hood of my car. I had to go to a carwash to get the blood off. The truck guy and the tow truck guy used a long crow bar to pry the 150+ lbs of deer from inside the wheel well between the two axles.
It was disgusting, and yet another example of how stupid deer are.
