Got my deer...

[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.