Stan:  How bout us comin' down and baggin' our limit of two-legged deer?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Deer Strike

> In Texas State Parks,  Core Of Engineer Parks and Private Camp grounds
> the Deer walk down the asphalt park roads 24 hours a day. You have to
> honk your horn to get them off of your road and many times they just
> ignore you and you have to drive off the gravel or asphalt surface to get
> past them. They lick the salt from picnic tables and will jump into
> dumpsters if you leave the cover open. They will eat almost anything that
> they can get to.
> Many city slickers in their giant motor homes bring deer corn to the
> parks and put it out so they can sit having evening cocktails and watch
> the deer come in for the corn.
> I often visit Centerville, 1/2 way between Dallas and Houston Texas and I
> always see many deer casualties on the roadsides, both fast highway and
> service / county roads. They are most prevalent at sundown and about
> sunup but I've seen them every hour of the night in lesser numbers than
> sunup and sundown.
> The Highway patrol and local authorities just drag the dead deer to the
> roadside and let nature take its course, they claim that the carcasses
> last less than 48 hours once its discovered by local scavengers.(I hope
> I'm talking about Coyotes, Vultures etc.)
> Local ranchers hate the deer because they carry some pretty mean tics,
> lice and livestock diseases not to mention that they will graze and eat
> livestock rations just like they were invited family members.
> Texas has reintroduced the wolf and brown bear into Texas Parks and
> National Parks and although I haven't seen any, one of the friends I
> visit in Centerville has lost twenty or thirty ducks and geese to wolves
> in the past six months. The wolves simply walk up to the ducks and geese
> and walk away with them. The Wolves and Coyotes have also developed a
> taste for house cats and dogs (much easier to catch than deer).
> You guys come on down and go deer hunting, you'll need a bucket of corn,
> a quart of Jack Daniels and a 47 Dodge pickup truck. I'll just bet you
> can bag your limit in just one night.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:45:04 -0400 "Spooner, Robert E."
> <bob.spooner@MIDDLETOWNPOWER.COM> writes:
> > Hey all,
> > Had the displeasure of whacking a deer on the way to work this
> > morning.
> > Almost missed her, she came from right to left and I just clipped
> > her
> > hind quarter with my left front corner.  Didn't kill her, though,
> > she
> > was able to continue to run off through the woods...no venison
> > tonight
> > for me.
> >
> > Anyway, the strike wiped out the front-left turn signal, pushing is
> > backwards through the body work.  It kind of looks like a basketball
> > hit
> > the corner of the van real hard, except for all of the hair stuck to
> > the
> > van.  The hit is above the bumper, doing no damage to that, and
> > outboard
> > of the headlights and upper grill, doing no damage there either.
> > the
> > van still drives straight, so I suspect that there is no alignment
> > issues.  Not too bad, considering what could of happened if I was a
> > split second faster, and took the deer smack in the front.
> >
> > My insurance company is sending me to a body shop for an estimate.
> > Is
> > there anything in particular I should point out to these fellas?
> > Can a
> > corner piece be purchased for a replacement, or is this a hammer
> > and
> > fill job?
> >
> > Thanks for any input.
> >
> > Bob Spooner
> > Environmental Engineer
> > Middletown Generating Station
> > Middletown, CT
> >
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