During the summer months, a friend often rides his bike to work. Early one morning in June, he topped a hill on the bike trail. Over the ridge was a small herd of deer. Naturally, he expected them to run and scatter. They didn’t, but kept grazing with heads down. Not one critter paid him a never mind".

He slowly, but carefully, picked his way though their roaming bodies. After passing though, he continued on his morning ride to work. His curiosity got the best of him, wander the reason the deer didn’t react toward a human as they normally would. His research took awhile before finding a reasonably answer.

He concluded it was the wheels on the bicycle that changed the deer’s attitude. They are very alert to other animals with FEET. Mountain loins, bear, and people have feet that move up and down. Round twirling things do not fit into a danger category. Since he had no feet, the deer believe him harmless.

This naturalist’s information opens a few humorous possibilities. For example, deer hunters could ride all terrain bikes or mountain into forests, fields, and dells stalking deer. The deer wouldn’t be alarmed, just stand as statues grazing. On a bike, a hunter to get up close & person, checking antler points, fur/hide condition, etc. The biker-hunter could include a front bike basket, a tri-trailer, GPS stuff, radio, horns, and very cool bike helmet. The biker rides close to the 12 point buck, shots it dead, and tosses its carcass in the trailer; biker bows a few blasts on the trumpet horn, checks location on GPS, the zooms off into the sunset.

New inventions could generate a different style for hunting. A hunter could cruise along a road in a pick-up truck. Keep light on for deer eyes to frame-freeze. A different type of bullet would work, too. Hunters need a slow speed 55MPH bullet with a headlight. Any deer will stand stone cold still, wonder what is happening. There is no sense of danger, because the objects (truck & bullet) have no feet. At a mere 55 MPH, the deer can watch its own demise: E-Z pickin’s.