hunters are the worst drivers ever!
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So what is worse? Drinking and driving, texting and driving, or a hunter looking for deer? My wife says what the heck are you doing, you are all over the road? I say, I am looking for deer. Then I think, okay you got me I am not watching where I am going at all, but did you see that buck! LOL
Funny my wife and boys been telling me this for years
Last spring my wife & I were headed to go watch my daughter coach her varsity girls soccer team My wife was driving..Of course I said lets go around the block of one the farms I hunt.I saw turkeys so I tell my wife to pull over so I can glass them.Then twice I tell he to to go a little farther ahead so I can see better.Lo & behold we turn the corner & the car behind us also turns & then the red lights come on.The lovely police lady pulls us over & thought maybe we had been drinking.My wife was real happy with me!!After explaining what we were up to the officer got a good laugh about it.Said her dad is a hunter & does the same thing.My wife then asked the officer to lock her up so she could get away from me.Wife is still not to happy about that one.
Just wait until you spot that big buck and have to set your beer down to text your buddy. Then things really get western.
If you have to put your beer down to text you need more practice.
My wife looks as much as I do! to see if she can spot first.
Same here, my boys are looking as well, and I usually get "are you gonna turn here?" from the wife
My wife will no longer go with me to drive "the loop" looking for deer. Something about stopping dead still in the middle of the road just doesn't sit well with her.
It's a reflex. I can't not scan the tree line anymore than my dog could not kill a coon.
lol, I do the same thing now my wife does also only she's not driving!
So so so guilty! Lol! My wife hates being in the truck when I drive. Good to kow I'm not the only one.
I take it as a personal challenge to spot all wildlife on road trips before anyone else in the car! In fact I challenge our kids to contests. Whoever spots the first deer gets a dollar, etc. If I spot the first deer they are out of luck. I usually let a few go before I call one out! Ha!
A large group of family and friends were caravanning to Guaymas Mexico for Christmas. I was the lead vehicle driving my 4x4 truck. Most of Mexico's roads don't have shoulders, just deep ditches with no room to pull over. It was first light and we were driving through the Sonoran Desert. I just told my father-in-law to keep an eye out for deer when immediately I saw a giant muley next to the highway. I made a U turn, closed the gap and then pulled off into the ditch and bolted out of the truck with my camera. Of course the rest of the caravan was totally clueless as to what was going on. This was many years ago and they still bring it up.
My wife has NEVER said anything like that to me...but she may tell you otherwise...
LOL,
I get falsely accuse of that all the time when I'm looking for deer. She hates it when I find them because sometimes I stop to watch them. Some times I turn around for a second look.
++CTCrow.....Every time I look left or right driving down the highway my wife says..whatsyadoin...lookenferdeer?
Years ago I lived in MT while my wife finished college in Billings. On my first trip out, I was gawking deer and antelope off of I-90 when I heard a quick chirp of a police siren. A state trooper had seen me all over the road, pulled up along side of me, gave me a chirp and hand signaled "eyes on the road" with 2 fingers then waved and kept on driving.
Sorry but mormons (at least Salt Lake City mormons) have already claimed the title of worst drivers on the planet. Not a bash on mormons, most will tell you the same thing.
Yup. I get the same from my wife.
Two years ago I was turkey hunting I was stopped at a stop sign and I spotted some deer. So I grabbed my bino's to see if there were any deer in the field further back. I determined that I could get a better look around the corner. Little did I know an officer had seen me at the stop sign. She proceeded to pull me over. When she got to the window and saw me in camo with my bino's on the dash she just laughed. She said I was acting suspicious so that is why she pulled me over. I did give her a lead to 3 young kids sitting in a car about 2 miles previously backed into a two track with the windows rolled slightly down. Needless to say she left in a hurry with a description of the vehicle and location.
Still not as bad as when looking for mushrooms also.
Twice I've almost hit deer on the dead end road leading to my house because I'm looking for deer in the field on one side of the valley. The road is on the right side, then further up it cuts across to the left side where my house is. The first time a doe, fawn and small buck were in the field and I was creeping along waiting to get along side of them to stop. Luckily I was going about 10mph when a nice buck crossed in front of me several feet in front of my truck. Then last year I was coming around the corner approaching my driveway and I was looking in the back yard where I have a pond. I was looking to see if deer were back there when I spotted a buck on the shoulder just across the street from my mailbox. I didn't even see him until I was along side him.
always tell my wife if they find me dead in a ditch for what seems like no reason she will know what I was doing when I died
My wife hates it at night when I stop the car, backup and shine the lights out in a field to get a better look at a buck that just crossed in front of us.
Funny my wife and boys been telling me this for years
My neck got sore from looking at all the antelope crossing Wyoming!
Yup, totaled my ol' Ford F150 Supercab looking for turkeys.... Poor ol' Blue.....
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Maybe, but we seem to hit less deer with our vehicles than "normal" people.
I just tell my wife, if she looked harder i wouldn't have to.
Scott
LOL, it's in our DNA...glad I'm not alone and relieved there is no cure.
I think the only thing that saves us is we tend to steer toward the ditch when looking in the fields. If we would go toward traffic, we would all be dead by now.
My wife constantly reminds me to "drive between the lines".
I've only crashed once.....and that was many years ago. I'm way more experienced now....
The best was an Alberta outfitter that I huntedvwith a bunch, giving one of his guides a verbal bashing, saying something like, and totally serious... "when you're driving, your eyes need to be on those fields! How are you gonna spot big Mulies if you're watching the road??!!" After he heard himself, even he had to chuckle....
My wife will comment "you want me to drive so you can look for deer?" 26 years together and she's finally trained!!!
Conversation from last night: Wife: Notice anything different? Me: Maybe Wife: I'm serious. Me: Yes Wife: What? Daughter in background looking through her fingers. My first thought is "binoculars?". Me: New glasses? Wife: How can you see a turkey at the back side of a hay field in the fog at 60 miles per hour and Not see I have on new glasses? Me: Uuuhhhh. Wife to daughter: Shut up that giggling. You only making it worse. Me: I was just messin with you. I saw em. Wife: You don't lie good either.
writer, so are so correct with that statement. I think hunters do tend to hit less because they are looking around and not just steering along talking on the phone or singing with the radio.
INbowdude, did she say between the 2 white lines or specifically the white and yellow lines? You have twice the driving space between the white lines.
One of my buddies was so bad we banned him from driving on our trips out west. I swear he had a cord that ran from his eyes to the steering wheel...if he looked right he drove right. If he looked left he drove left!
Now he always tell the story about being banned from driving when we are in game country.