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Sharksbaja
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Gimme a brake!
Here in Oregon it is possible to describe two groups of people.
1) Those who have hit a deer with their car
and
2) Those who will
Is it the same in Baja? Only with cows?
I have narrowly missed a couple myself and my buddy hit one in the head with his Bronco. I once saw a VW bus that hit one. Bad! The guy was ok though.
[Edited on 9-20-2005 by Sharksbaja]
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David K
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Hey sharks... up late? We are having a really freak lightning storm here in Oceanside! I never have seen so much lightning (and thunder) in one storm,
ever... Bolts are quick and verticle (to the ground it seems)... Can't sleep with WWIII going on outside... HA!
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Diver
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Reminds me of an road-kill old story;
December, 1975 I was in sothern Colo driving home after dark on snowy roads and with huge flakes coming down. I was following a lady that had pulled
out onto the road before me in an old pick-up. As I rounded a curve in the road I could see a dow standing at the edge of the road ahead of the lady's
car. The doe stood there while the lady' truck hit it squarly in the head as it passed, missing injury to the remaining torsoe as it passed.
I slowed down, stopped and backed up. Confirmed the lack of injury to the deer's body, swung it head-down in the ditch and bled it out. 30 minutes
later, the gutted doe was tied on top of my VW bug and I was heading down the road. Got home, hung her in the garage and added the meat to my locker a
few days later !
Road kill ? Who'd a thought ?? Yummy !
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Bob and Susan
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True....
This happened just outside of Winnepeg. Ft.
Gary had a call this morning (Saturday) that there was a deer on a pole . . . right! Sure enough there was.
This is right beside the tracks a few miles west of Headingly Station.
They figure that a train hit it and launched it up there.
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Bob and Susan
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Close up....
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bajajudy
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oh I am sure that he is just sleeping
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Diver
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Nice white-tail ! Did you eat her ?? 
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Frank
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Its the new Ron Popeil family size beef jerky maker...
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Skeet/Loreto
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Tripletts!!!!
Here at Timber Creek Canyon the Fawns are all over. Yesterday as we went out there was a Momma with 3 little ones trailing along in their order of
Size.
At 2;00 this morning on of the older ones likes to run along the fence teasing the dogs and acting like a dog.
sometimes a bow and Arrow come in Handy.
Skeet
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turtleandtoad
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No cows thankfully, but I did nail a goat last trip, out in the middle of nowhere, between San Ignacio and Santa Rosalia and all by himself.
Mike & Robin; Full-Time RV\'ers
37\' Georgetown w/3 slides & 275 Watts of Solar Power
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Diver
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But, did you eat the goat ?
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turtleandtoad
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Nah, but I did eat a deer I hit in Hayfork, Shasta County CA. Did the same thing you did, bled him out and field dressed him alongside of the road
(more of a firebreak than a road) and tossed him in the back of the PU. Fed the whole camp, including a game warden that dropped by. You should have
seen my face when he was introduced to me.
Mike & Robin; Full-Time RV\'ers
37\' Georgetown w/3 slides & 275 Watts of Solar Power
06 Taco TRD
www.turtleandtoad.com
I am here
To paraphrase Frank Lloyd Wright; I\'m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let\'s start with keyboards. --
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thebajarunner
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We had a wild scene in the 500 a few years ago,
in the forest, following close behind a Bronco, he wheeled around one of those tight turns in the pine trees and center punched a big steer,
Bronco straight off the road with a busted radiator and we just missed the steer which is now lying in the middle of the (very narrow) race road,
heart still pumping and blood spurting straight up in the air.
That will get your race road adrenaline over the top for a few minutes!!
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Oso
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Now that I'm a Zoner, one of the main things I miss about NC is the Fall hunting. Friends say the deer are almost the #1 road hazard now.
About 8 or 9 years ago, my wife and I were returning from Charlotte to our small town south of Raleigh. It was at night on a country two-lane. All I
saw was a brown blur out of the corner of my eye and then heard the thud. I stopped and looked at the front of the Cherokee. The left headlight was
smashed, part of the grill was gone and there was a large dent in the driver's side door. I looked back and saw a large doe lying on the side of the
road a few yards back. Well, I'm a redneck, right? With several hundred, maybe a grand worth of damage to the car, I couldn't see also wasting all
that meat.
I backed up the jeep and opened the hatch. Here's where I went wrong. I didn't have a skinning knife handy. It was out of season. I was across the
road from a private hunting club and we were only half an hour from home. So, figuring I'd hang, gut & skin it in the garage later, I grabbed the
legs and swung it into the back. I got in, started up and headed out. About 5 minutes later, the doe came to and started kicking the crap out of a
cooler and everything else in the back. Ana was screaming "Esta vivo!, esta vivo! I pulled over as soon as I could, ran around back and opened the
hatch. The doe jumped out, shook her head and wobbled off into the woods, a bit unsteady on her feet but very much alive.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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MrBillM
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Vaca Caca
Back in the 70s, heading North from San Ignacio in the dead of night (stupid) in my Baja Bug, we came around a sharp curve outside of El Rosario and
the WHOLE damned road was filled with vacas. How I managed to avoid one, I have no idea, just dumb luck. I have had numerous encounters with Cows
and Burros, but never that close.
Slightly off the subject, during that same decade eight of us were heading for Gonzaga in four Baja Bugs when we came across a burro standing in the
middle of the road. We stopped and got out to take some photos and one of the group dared another to climb on the burro for a picture, which he did
to our amazement. The burro offered no objection at all. Still have that photo.
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David K
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Cows like sleeping in vados, on the warm asphalt... In 1974, doing research for my Baja roadguide, my dad was driving after sundown... north from San
Ignacio... He wanted to get to Parador Punta Prieta that night so we could have an early start to go into L.A. Bay on the newly graded road (not paved
for a couple more years still)... Well, he managed to avoid the vacas laying on the pavement and it was very fortunate no car was in the other lane!
The don't drive at night in central Baja warning is a good one!
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Skeet/Loreto
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Pomp; Same with me with one exception, I did not slow enough and got a Buzzard with the right side of my Winshield.
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bajaden
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I was driving back from Biggs california one night on hwy 99 when a deer jumped out in front of my truck. I caught it with my right front fender. Took
out the headlight and didn't do the fender any good either.
The poor thing was laying off the side of the road trying to get up, but she had no control of her rear legs. Probably a broken back. I didn't want
her to suffer, but I had no firearms with me. So I pull out my tire iron. There I'am standing over her with my tire iron raised over my head, and the
game warden pulls up.
It took a lot of explaining, but he finally bought my story.
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Sharksbaja
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rolleyes: Ugh, tough call eh Den! Tire-iron? Ha!
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thebajarunner
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You know, of course, in this "Enlightened Era" we are living in that no such meat is allowed in any governmental institutions.
Whether a clean kill on the road, or even when we hire state licensed hunters to clean out the deer eating our young nursery stock, none can be used
for human consumption.
Ah, the State of California, such a wonderful state (of confusion) we have become!.
DK---- did you call them 'vado vacas"???
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