RE: Close encounter of the deer kind

["DRAPER, Mo" <mo.draper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad (for your sake) you didn't hit him. It does seem like deer hunting
season should be starting any day now. Of course if you hit 'em with the 45
Kimber there won't be much venison left.

Remember my old buddy Ken Adams? He bought a new VF1000F in '84. He came
into the bar at Kirkwood one day all shook up from a close encounter of the
deer kind. When he went to wash his bike the next day we found deer hair
stuck into his rear turn signal lens.

xox brm

> ----------
> From: 	Jan and Don Draper[SMTP:ddraper@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:44 AM
> To: 	ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 	donny; DRAPER, Mo
> Subject: 	Close encounter of the deer kind
> 
> Yesterday at about 6:45pm I was riding down Hwy 9 through
> some canyons doing around 60 when all of a sudden a deer
> flew past the front of my bike, right-to-left.
> 
> I mean, the sucker was flying, legs fully extended, right across
> the front of my windscreen.  That was where it was when my
> brain first registered there was an obstacle.  Layed out across the
> front of my bike in mid-air just bike lengths away.
> 
> The deer must've been running full blast and then jumped sideways
> across the road.
> 
> I'd barely begun to react when the deer's rear hooves just missed 
> the windscreen on the left.  I missed the animal by inches.  I couldn't
> believe that I didn't at least wing it's legs.  Whew!  
> 
> This happened *damn* fast.  I was focussed on my riding and can't 
> think of anything I could've done other than maybe ride slower.
> 
> I plan enjoy a hearty dinner of deer venison at the first opportunity.
> 
> Save the Mountain Lions!
> 
> -Don "Blue Dawg" Draper
> 
> 
> 
> 

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