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You rarely see a road kill turkey (the bird)

JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
edited December 2017 in General Discussion
I almost got one this afternoon. He was crossing US-58 flying low. He never got higher than the hood of my Tahoe. It was kinda like a chemical stress test. My heart was in my throat for a while. I might have tickled his tail feathers but I think I missed him by inches.
The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A guy I worked with hit one while riding his ATV on the way to hunt, yep, turkeys! Put him in the hospital for a couple of days with a broken collar bone and concussion. He said it hit him head on at 3:00 PM. We named that turkey "Kamikaze". [;)]
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  • BoltactionManBoltactionMan Member Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They get hit all the time here in Missouri, usually about windshield level.

    KC
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,372 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    glad you missed [:D] I have hit a hawk the only bird I can recall taking out at least 4 or 5 deer
    add in over the years of running over it
    possum ( opossum for some of you [}:)]
    *
    vultures
    rabbits
    fox
    snakes
    to name a few

    for the most part if if it crosses the road you can expect to see at least one [xx(][xx(][xx(][xx(]
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    During the rut you can't go much more than a mile without seeing a road kill deer. I've accounted for several of them. The state finally gave up on picking them up.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got a duck one morning- on the wing.

    Going over a causeway, van coming the other way towards me when a suicidal duck made a mad dash crossing at an elevation of about 5 feet above the roadway. Van grill punted him at me- thought duck was going to hit the windshield.... Ahh! Went to the right..... BOINGOINGOING! A cloud of feathers....

    Radio antennae got him.[B)]
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hit one with the passenger side rear view mirror on my Ford-550. Sent it flying up and thru the windshield of the semi that was right on my *. Cost me 45 dollars to fix the mirror. Well worth it to see that semi take the shoulder quickly.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw 2 hawks and 3 or four coyotes on the way home from Mom's yesterday. Amazingly no deer...
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  • 204targetman204targetman Member Posts: 3,493
    edited November -1
    my mom hit one in her car. did a lot of damage.
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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I lived in upstate ny I saw a bunch of broken windshields from turkeys.
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  • tomh.tomh. Member Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Turkeys can fly[?]
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had one take out a marker light on my Benz. Pulled over and tried to find it but it ran off.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by redneckandy
    I had one take out a marker light on my Benz. Pulled over and tried to find it but it ran off.


    Your marker light ran off? Don
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by redneckandy
    I had one take out a marker light on my Benz. Pulled over and tried to find it but it ran off.


    Your marker light ran off? Don

    Yep. Dang thing was fast!
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gjshaw
    When I lived in upstate ny I saw a bunch of broken windshields from turkeys.


    had a little RX7 pass me one day on interstate doing about 80, as it was going up a small hill about a quarter mile ahead of me I saw a * "cloud" in front of the car. I figured it had blown a motor from the speed it passed me. as I got up to it, it had pulled over on the burm of the highway I saw a turkey on side of road and the windshield was busted/broken out of it, he had hit a turkey flying across the interstate. I just figured it was Karma for speeding.......
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by redneckandy
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by redneckandy
    I had one take out a marker light on my Benz. Pulled over and tried to find it but it ran off.Your marker light ran off? DonYep. Dang thing was fast!Probably not as fast as an Audi's!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Years ago my dad and his long, lean cowboy buddy went a couple hours north to look at some cattle in the Canadian River breaks.

    Cowboy was riding in pickup with cattle owner, headed along dirt road.

    He leaned over to see speedometer, which read "95" as he saw turkey coming over hood of truck.

    He hit the floor, turkey hit the windshield, windshield hit back of seat.

    Dad said moving turkey out of truck was like handling a bag full of jello.

    Bet that turkey broke every bone in his body[:D]
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  • US Military GuyUS Military Guy Member Posts: 3,645 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hit one in the Caravan about 5 minutes after making the same observation to my wife. Took out the windshield and driver's mirror. [:(!]
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was selling magazines in Louisiana with my cousin Billy Ray back in the late fifties when he hit one. Stopped, picked it up and gave it to the people at the first house that came up. We stayed while it was being cleaned. They were very grateful.
    What's next?
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  • BikerBobBikerBob Member Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They do a lot of damage when you hit one. Take a look at this windshield...

    http://www.DNWu.com/content/news/Wild-turkey-flew-through-windshield-of-car-as-family-headed-back-to-Chicago-417525303.html

    Daughter hit 2 a couple summers ago, the county truck behind her got the rest of the flock! Cost her a windshield, but didn't go through.

    I'm thinking a 20-30 lb bird at 70 mph would ruin more than your day on a bike!
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You see a lot of turkeys that have been hit by cars around here. But then there's a lot of turkeys around here
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by tomh.
    Turkeys can fly[?]


    He's not talking about humans turkeys[:D]
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have had them run out in front and hit my brakes a couple of times but never one flying.
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  • 47studebaker47studebaker Member Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    very few roadkill crows but I have sen 2.
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    When I worked for the Forest Circus, we'd try to nail the hundreds of turkeys out playing in the woods.
    The little Ford Rangers they gave us just couldn't get the job done due to the wimpy motors. We'd get really close to a wad of birds, punch it, and watch them feathery Houdini's float inches away from the hood on the way to the treetops.
    Funniest time was when one turkey flapped his way into a bear, who freaked out & ran into the road right in front of us. Missed him too.
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  • 320090T320090T Member Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Family friend hit a bear on I65 in Alabama, I asked him if he got out to see if it was ok. He said it got up and waddled off.
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  • iceracerxiceracerx Member Posts: 8,860 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe the Michigan turkeys are slower than those in your neck of the woods. I've managed to tag two with two different Dodge Dakotas. The first (2005 or so) was at highway speed and didn't do the bird or my passenger side headlight any good. The 2nd was just last summer in Michigan's UP. That bird came up out of a ditch and didn't manage bumper height before he met the plastic front fascia below the bumper. DRT and one nicely busted piece of plastic.
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 47studebaker
    very few roadkill crows but I have sen 2.


    Yep, very few. I have only seen 1. I think it's because they warn the whole murder with the warning call of "Carr Carr Carr"
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by tomh.
    Turkeys can fly[?]
    Domesticated (farm turkeys) can't fly. They are bred for big breast and heavy weight. If a flock of wild turkeys gets up in front of you, you might have to take a break to clean out your drawers. The noise is like a covey of quail time a hundred. Yeah, they can fly.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Around here they use crossing guards. Had 3 large Females standing in my Lane looking at me. I stopped cause I was in my Car and a turkey would have done some real damage. Behind them was a Bunch of little ones crossing. They got out of my way once the little ones were safe.

    True story.
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  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I hit an owl about 2 am in a 62 Volkswagen bug.With the 6 volt headlights on high beam you could probably see about 25 feet in front of the car.
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guy in front of me nailed a turkey on the parkway...

    Tooling along at 75mph. Wondering why he hit the brakes then saw the feathers fly...
    "What is truth?'
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,019 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saw one acturally fly into the side of a semi-trailer driving aways ahead of me! I pulled off onto the shoulder, backed up and thru it into the rear seat area. Had it the next night for dinner[;)]
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by buddyb
    I hit an owl about 2 am in a 62 Volkswagen bug.With the 6 volt headlights on high beam you could probably see about 25 feet in front of the car.


    In my 63, I used to joke that the headlights weren't for driving; they were aircraft warning lights!
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now that you mention it, I've seen a lot of roadkill, but never a turkey.

    Almost had a front row seat (driver's seat) view of a huge Red-tailed Hawk roadkill this morning. My wife had a regular checkup this morning and as we were driving away from the Doctor's office she said "is that a hawk"? I saw the hawk come out from between several large Oaks, gaining altitude, and when it was at windshield level, directly in front of me, I saw the Fox Squirrel it was carrying away; the squirrel had an "Oh Crap" expression on its face! [:D]

    A very close encounter!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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