Went pheasant hunting yesterday. . .
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Topic: Went pheasant hunting yesterday. . .
Posted By: Mack
Subject: Went pheasant hunting yesterday. . .
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:14pm
. . . next time I will use a gun. ------------- 
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:17pm
| what happened? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:21pm
| I hope you at least live in a "road kill law" state and got to keep the meat! |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:21pm
| Be glad it wasn't a turkey. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:22pm
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"Pheasant on cracked glass"?
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Posted By: Lightningbolt
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:24pm
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Oh somehow I thought you knocked a bird down and it landed on your car but I see you hit it while driving. Warm soapy water works awsome on dirty cars. Rinse it with fresh water after ok. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:29pm
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Well, I didn't see that one coming... (see what I did thar?) ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 1:47pm
There wasn't that much left; just some scraps stuck to the windshield.
Give me a break; I got in at midnight from a 570 mile drive that was part of a 20 hour workday. ( It was an interesting trip, Montana threw everything it had at me; a 40* temperature drop, an ice storm, 50 mph winds, two snow storms, a pheasant, rain, etc. )
I do see what you did thar . . .  . . . and I didn't see it coming. I was driving into the sunrise while taking a curve and there was a brief shadow* flashing in front of the vehicle and the windshield exploded. Trying to stay on the road when looking at the sun refracting through the cracks definitely got my heart-rate up. *Only knew it was a pheasant** from the body parts that were still stuck to the windshield. **A stealth ninja pheasant based on the fact I didn't see it and it did attack with the sun to its back. -------------
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tallen702 wrote:Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 2:31pm
| Wouldn't have happened if you bought "Merican. |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 4:59pm
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Well I can't imagine that was a very pheasant mess to clean up... It sure fowled up your windshield pretty bad.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 5:13pm
While you deserve it for screwing the American working man by buying Japanese, I always thought those Hondas were perhaps one of the worst looking cars around until the Nissan Puke rolled around. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 5:32pm
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I own an Element and agree that they are very ugly. I only got it because it was a very good deal. However, the utility of the vehicle combined with the ride, the reliability and the fact that it reminds me of driving a Jeep Wrangler (which I like and have owned quite a few of) would make me ignore the ugly and buy a new one when this one needed replacing if Honda was still making them. Oh, and they are about 85% U.S. content. And I do believe that USAF won this thread with his comment. Edited edition: Bad puns aside, it did fowl up my glass pretty bad. It hit hard enough to shatter the inside layer of glass which resulted in me catching a spray of pieces in the face. I had to pull two small slivers out the left side of my face. (Nothing serious, just annoying.) -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 5:34pm
Yes, yes he did. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 10:22pm
I don't think we can be friends anymore.
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 27 January 2012 at 11:20pm
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I like the elements. I could care less what they look like. I also like the Pontiac Aztecs. Uglier than sin, but versatile. But at least you can call it the Heisenberg mobile. Basically I don't buy a vehicle for looks. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 28 January 2012 at 12:57am
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I used to hunt pheasant like you, then I took a guineafowl to the grill. Damn thing flew away afterwards. Looking at R3000 in damage. Glad you safe. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 28 January 2012 at 9:17am
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USAF- Nice. When we drove through Montana, all we hit was about 30 million bugs. Sounded like it was raining. Birds do a hell of a lot more damage than you'd expect huh? Glad you're okay though. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 28 January 2012 at 11:39am
A big "thank you" to all well-wishers as I am quite happy I am okay as well. By the time I managed to get out of the shoulder part of the seat-belt and see around the break I was no longer following the contour of the curve in the road and was instead on the shoulder and headed for a steep drop-off. The Element's AWD impressed me. I had let off the gas as soon as the windshield was hit so had slowed a bit but was still moving at a pretty good clip on the gravel shoulder. When I steered back on course the vehicle just dug in and went where I wanted--the truck tires the previous owner put on it probably helped with that. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 28 January 2012 at 11:43am
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Drive the rest of the way home with it? or get towed out? Several years ago, a buddy of mine and I were driving home from work in his truck. I had my hand out the window when I heard a "THUNK!" and saw feathers everywhere. I had him pull over, and found that two ruffed grouse had come out of the woods and slammed into the side of the truck, inches from where my hand had been resting- you could see the small dent and chipped paint right next to where my pinkie was. The two birds had broken their necks and were dead on the side of the road. We left them there, though looking back, I don't know why. ------------- ? |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 28 January 2012 at 1:31pm
I will destroy you! AAARRGHH
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 03 February 2012 at 3:30am
I'm not sure what this was in reference too, but I'll answer anyway. I did another 300 miles with the windshield like that because I pretty much didn't have a choice. The feather missile to the grill only damaged the grill and A/C and I drove for a couple of weeks until the new condenser came in. -------------
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