Got my deer...

[WILMASBOYL78]

Been hunting since late October and finally got my deer last nite, with the Tahoe!!! Coming home from work and only 1/2 mile from the house and one of santa's reindeer decided to jump into my pass door...some guy stopped and said he would be happy to cut the deer's neck and take it home...county mounties arrived and did the usual paperwork. They told me it was the 3rd deer accident of the nite(only 7:30 pm!) Well the guy at the body shop is happy, $2600 estimate for repairs! I think the body shop folks raise the deer and release them in November to help business..oh well, could have been worse...glad I don't live in Maine, hear the moose can really do a job!


wilma

[Xplantdad]

Tom,

Glad to know that you're okay...cars can be fixed...people are a bit harder to "restore"....

[Seattle Sam]

Glad it hit the side of your car and not the front, those deer have a high center of gravity and often come right through the windshield!

[JoeG]

My friends Caddy put his tag on a BIG doe last year--took out the left part of the grill and fender------------Like your accident she just came flying out of the wood line----------------I've seen many deer accidents thru the years and a few fatal as Sam pointed out---deers going thru windshields---The worst one I've seen was a deer that jumped so high going across a roadway it actually went across the hood and thru the winddow of a school bus
-----------Just some info------------If you are approaching deer standing right on the side of the road and they are looking to cross--if you can slow down and beep your horn to get their attention otherwise they seem to be focused on crossing to get to the other side ----oblvious to their surroundings ---------- the sound of traffic must seem to the deer like it's coming from inside the woods behind the them , which in some cases spooks the deer causing it to Bolt --sometimes ending in a suicide run into on-coming traffic---- Unfortunately--there's no defense for the one that comes flying out of the woods
----The thruways in PA ,when it gets close to hunting season are littered with deer that looked like they were dropped from airplanes--- mostly young ones----------About the Moose Wilma--up in Quebec-long time ago we were taveling a old logging road in a VW BUS--25MPH--out comes a Big COW Moose who decides to run along side the VW bus for a stretch -so close my buddy was touching her back thru the window--Guess she thought we were the new guy on the block----just some campfire talk

[Jeff H]

I found that running a supercharger helps keep the deer away. They can hear the high pitched whine and they take off. I would come down my road late at night in my 93 Z28 Indy Pace Car and the deer would pop there heads up and look my way before running off. So when your wife asks what that supercharger is for, just tell her it's a safety device!

[ANDY M]

Having been through this experiance twice, I've found out that insurance-wise, it's far better to HIT THE DEER.
Act of God, no deductable, car gets fixed.
Trying to get an insuance company to believe that you wrecked your car dodging a deer, good luck.
Truth be told, in most cases you won't have the time to make that choice, as the deer tend to do that for you.
In Ohio, where we kill more deer with cars than anything else, it's against the law to take road kill deer without the proper papers. They call it poaching.
Last year there were about a dozen deer hit just within the city limits of Columbus. Not all are hit by cars.
One was a 300lb 10 pointer that crashed into a friends home,nearly killing him before the cops got there and killed the deer. He spent a day and a half in the hospital. He's also 83. True story.

[SmallHurst]

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I found that running a supercharger helps keep the deer away. They can hear the high pitched whine and they take off. I would come down my road late at night in my 93 Z28 Indy Pace Car and the deer would pop there heads up and look my way before running off. So when your wife asks what that supercharger is for, just tell her it's a safety device!

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Apparently a turbo on a Cummins diesel does not do the same. Steve Hodges turned into a Bambi killer a couple weeks ago with his '05 Dodge dually. Pushed the bumber into the a/c condenser.

[Canucklehead]

Earlier this year i was traveling in the British Columbia interior and came across a total of 12 black bear, 16 moose, and 47 deer!!!. Luckily only 4 deer on the side of the road, never hit anything but with that many spotted on the side of the road it was only a matter of time. The local RCMP must go nuts answering road kill calls......... we got within 3 meters of a mother and her 2 cubs, dumb i know we just pulled up close she looked up and we were gone!!

[PeteLeathersac]

I've hit a few deer over the years also missed lots too including one close call between two of them while on a snowmobile! . But the most memorable near miss was in the summer of '79 while driving south out of Yellowknife NWT when I just missed a middle of nowhere collision w/ a Buffalo! . I got stopped about 3 feet from hitting him and he glared at me with a look like he was ready to ram me. . In the quick stop, my trusty '74 Chevy van had stalled. . As I fired it back up, the throaty roar from the 4-bbl w/ upside-down air cleaner lid scared him off! . All those years of arguing with Dad over which way the lids should be finally paid off! ~ Pete

[Allen]

Here are the results of a deer slaying in 1972 with my Nova by the original owner's wife.