I almost crashed into a deer on an uplift day at Innerleithen years ago. Came rattling round a corner and was aiming for the next corner when the deer jumped across the trail right in front of me, missed it by a few feet. Shat meself!
Whats more pant soiling is when the deer you startle leaps into the undergrowth and frightens a dozen other deer in there who then leap back out onto the trail. Had to weave through a bunch of them at Ardgarten
A friend crashed into a herd of red deer up north and ended up with his bike tangled in the antlers of a stag. He instinctively wouldn’t let go of the bike. The stag made utter mincemeat of him, they rear up and stab down with their front hooves – like being hit with a angry 250kg pickaxe.