Ilovemountains

YES, he swerved off the road and ran over some ones dog WHILE LAUGHING, I’m a dog person and my lab is family! That is just wrong, that’s like driving along and OH look a play ground full of 2nd graders, you yank your 4runner into 4H jump over the embankment and take out a hand full of children that were waiting to go down the slide next, its just wrong!

HuntRunner

We're not all bad....Unfortunately, like everything else, there are bad apples in every group. Though I always hunt private land, I can see where the two might clash. In some ways you are helping the deer hunters more than they want to realize. For one, by mountain bikers being in the area year around, it keeps the deer used to human scent. The deer won't be so spooked when deer season comes around. Secondly, when you drive through, you might just push a deer right to a hunter. Seen this happen several times!
Probably best for each to respect the others sport and step around and not on them.

Flamedx4

Not deer, but last night on my drive home (long curvy mountain road) on a little straight stretch there were 2 COWS standing in the road. I barely missed them, ABS chattering away I slid right past them, barely squeezing between them and the guard rail. There was an oncoming truck right then, I flicked my brights but too little too late (basically a blind curve anyway.) Not 2 car lengths behind me, he hit both of them. Hard. One flew off through the ditch and into a fence. The other, he ran over. I could hear the impact over my stereo! I thought it was gonna flip his truck, in my side mirror I saw the truck pitch up in the air, then sparks flew out from under it, then a spray of steam out the front. I stopped and ran back, he was okay, completely unhurt. The farthest thing forward on his truck was the front of the engine block - the radiator was completely wrapped around it like tin foil on leftovers, the hood folded like an accordion and popped up over the windshiedl, one headlight still worked - it was pointing straight up.. The cab crumpled so the doors were now 2" too large to fit the openings. Full size Dodge diesel. Imagine that in a Yota!! Astounding damage, parts of the truck scattered for 50 feet. (Parts of cow too...)

-ToYoTa-

lol that Durango has no bumber damage, the deer must have leaped onto the top of it then fell in the window. haha and still not sure how it could bend the top of it that bad. and wear all the looks like dirt on top of it come from.

Ilovemountains

That is very true... The guys that give us crap are the ones that think hunting is setting up your stand 15 feet from the trail not real hunters that hike up into the woods and actually hunt. Another way mountain biking helps out, we have kept so many old fire roads open, I would not want to take my truck on some of them for the sake of beating the fenders to death but in the event of a fire they could get a rig up in there if they need to with out cutting a million trees out of the roads. Turkey hunters don’t like to see any one though, those guys that that rather seriously, we got SCREAMED at by a guy that was tracking a bird for a few hours or something and then we scared it away! I don’t think it would be that hard to find it again had he let us pass and kept going, but nooooo he had to threaten us, scream and cuss like a jackass! We were not on private property either, its a national wildlife management area! Anyway, people that hit dogs need hit and the less deer the better we are, kill them all