WEB-Tech wrote:
Route 66 Lawdog wrote:
WEB-Tech wrote:
The trick to riding in high deer populations is to constantly hit your horn. There is one section of road between work and home I just keep tapping on the horn button the whole stretch of road. Deer come up to the edge of the road and eat the grass. Had deer about 1-2 feet from my handle bar a few times, as I go by them, they just look up and go back to eating. Hate Deer, but love to ride at night, so I risk it.
I remember several years ago, in one of several such incidents, an officer was speeding down the road, full lights and sirens, and still managed to tag a deer. The animal went right through the windshield and into the passenger seat area. It was still alive and the poor officer was just about kicked to death before he could access his firearm and dispatch the injured Bambi.
A full complement of very bright strobes firing, a siren which can be heard for a good mile, and some deer still manage to pirouette into vehicles.
Too much and too loud. An occasional toot of the horn stops a deer in its tracks in a quiet area.
Deer season starts tomorrow. So, I can sneak up on them by running all "lights and sirens?" Cool!!!
Seriously, I have tried the little-toot-here, little-toot-there approach and have found it to be lacking in dependability, just as is the full-on assault style of attacking every sensory-input possessed by a deer.
I have observed that deer can be momentarily, and very briefly, startled by just about anything. I believe one could have success in causing just enough, but not too much, commotion so that any given deer would be startled into brief motionlessness while the rider managed to scoot past.
Not being able to see where every deer is located prior to the encounter might somewhat complicate one's ability to know when the exact moment for a game-winning toot has arrived, though. And then, the next deer thirty yards up the road might not play along, and just decide the best course of action is to blindly bolt across the road (and becoming a newly unwanted scooter passenger), after briefly having been mildly frozen by fear during the horn-tooting which was timed to the prior deer encountered, of course.
I'm glad that you have found a method of dealing with them that works for you, it just has not been consistently effective for me
Deer. I'm tellin' ya: they are just out to get us. Or, at least in Oklahoma, anyways......