Almost ex deer dodger

Lowflyer

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Was coming home late last night from Oban on the A82 around 11 ish after buying a set of panniers of a nice chap called Stuart.
Bought them off e bay, Stuart was camping in Oban and hails from Lundun, took the panniers with him to save me postage :thumbsup: Spookily it was he who sold the black GS 1150 to Chad and bought some stuff off Rugged Roads, small world eh ? :thumbsupanim:

Anyways , met Stuart at Tesco's Oban and set off, had a Maccy D and a chat with an old friend in Ft William and headed off up the A82. Road was really quiet and made good progress until darkness fell when I eased off a bit. There are normally no sign of deer along the majority of the road due to the high rock faces on the left and Loch Ness on the right. Slowed down on the sections of woodland where I know deer come out, no worries , carried on. Came up to the last bit, about 5 miles out of Inverness, slowed down to about 50 mph, saw a shadow in the bushes ahead, slowed right down, sure enough, stag came out. Stopped to a standstill to wait for the followers to come out. Another two proceeded to amble out across the road. By this time I was stationary, indicators on, unlike the car coming towards me who was tramping on, went into an uncontrolled skid and was heading straight towards me. :eek:
I froze, unable to do anything. If I was on the At, might have been able to deck it, jump off, but the Beemer is a little bit higher. Anyways, the car came to a rest about 2m away from me. Quite a distance I hear you say, but believe me, when you are dazzled by headlights and the sound of screeching tyres keeps getting nearer and nearer, you really brick it.

All in all, local knowledge is a great thing, luckily I know the road , if I hadn't , could have been a very different story. Funnily enough, I mentioned to Stuart before I left about the dangers of these beasts late at night in the HIghlands

Don"t know why they are down at low level this time of year, possibly lack of midges due to the sh1t weather we are having. :mad:
Take care out there folks, hope to see you again Stu ( if you are reading this :cool: )
 
Lutin

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You don't do things by halves, do you?

Glad that you're fine and not filling out an insurance claim form, or worse.
 
Alba

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I forgot you had moved to the poser side sorry meant to type adventure :ugeek:

Can't imagine a car heading towards me with nowt I can do you must have been shitting buttons ...
 
Richie B

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Good to hear you're in one piece. My worst nightmare is hitting a deer around here, never really thought of this eventuality :eekicon:
 
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It's more scary because it's out of your control. You've done everything right but there's nothing you can do about other road users so that's just down to luck, and luck was with you that night, John. :)

Glad you're ok fella, and no, 2 metres doesn't sound much at all! I think I might have also needed some toilet roll after that!
 
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bungle

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They seem to like you John and try to say hello whenever they can! Is there something you are not telling us?
 
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dodursley

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A fortunate escape.
A few years back I hit a deer in the car.
This was on the main road through the woods above Dursley (Glos) daylight 8 am ish. It jumped out of the woods over the stone wall landed on the road immediately in front, fortunately, for me, it went straight under the car just cracking the front spoiler and hitting the rear wheel (wheel bearing went a few weeks later). The deer was dead so left it in the verge, when we returned later in the morning it had gone, venison road kill for someone.
If I had been on a bike I would have had no chance as there is no chance of seeing the deer until they are on the road.
I am careful going past that spot now, can see the verge is trampled so must be a regular crossing point.
 
Lowflyer

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bungle said:
They seem to like you John and try to say hello whenever they can! Is there something you are not telling us?
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Geoff,

Think it's payback time on behalf of all their ancestors I've scoffed over the years :lol:

The worst place I know of is your favourite road, up by Kylesku, used be hundreds of the fekers there. I had a deer horn fitted to my car which helped a bit, but still unnerving at night when you see hundreds of sparkly diamonds at the side of the road.
Should really slow down, but you don't :D

Thanks for concerns guys, appreciate it, but it's a way of life up here, you get used to it :thumbsup:
 
Mervin

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the missus had a little roe deer jump out in front of the car down here one day , it was close, it cracked the number plate and there was hair in the crack , it ran off so must have been ok , lucky for the deer it was a car with a soft plastic bumper not a tractor with a bloody great cast iron weight on the front i suppose
 
Lord Vader

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Lowflyer said:
bungle said:
They seem to like you John and try to say hello whenever they can! Is there something you are not telling us?
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Geoff,

Think it's payback time on behalf of all their ancestors I've scoffed over the years :lol:

The worst place I know of is your favourite road, up by Kylesku, used be hundreds of the fekers there. I had a deer horn fitted to my car which helped a bit, but still unnerving at night when you see hundreds of sparkly diamonds at the side of the road.
Should really slow down, but you don't :D

Thanks for concerns guys, appreciate it, but it's a way of life up here, you get used to it :thumbsup:
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I wasnt :D
I seen you ride a bike and drive a car and you a loonie on/in both :rolleyes2:

































good to hear you still ok to come down to the National :thumbsup: :cool2: :D
 
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