Well today didn't get off to a very good start, left for work at 5:30 this morning in my ranger got less then a mile from the house and nailed a deer. Tore up the grille all the front lights, radiator, hood, and I got a air bag in the face. No sign of the deer anywhere afterwards. Cost a 125 dollars to have it towed back to the house.

 

So now you can get three deer this yr. One with a gun , one with the bow and the bonus deer with the truck ! How much a pound do you figure the truck deer was worth ?

 

Hitting a deer is one of my worst nightmares about driving my Corvette since I sorta live in the country.Driving the truck worries me too but not as much as the Vette.

 

I nailed a deer on Saturday, but it was with a .243

 

Here's a sad story:
Ford Flathead V8 .. 1932 thru 1953 • View topic - BillB adventure

with a happy ending:
Ford Flathead V8 .. 1932 thru 1953 • View topic - On the road again ...!

I missed a bull elk and three of his ladies by inches, going 70 in a Z28 in the mountains west of here. He'd have come straight thru the windshield... Another time coming thru the mountains on my bike behind a converted school bus, four deer jumped off the embankment on the shoulder, right into the side of the bus! A buddy in Idaho hit a deer on his bike 2 miles outside Boise, during rush hour. No one said they were smart critters. I don't drive at night if I can help it, at least not in the country.

 

Fishing in the Sierras some years ago. Driving the Wifes Exploder up into Convict Lake. At speed a Deer jumps in front of me and I nail it hard. Hurts the sheet metal but it was glancing and not too bad. Turn around and go back, the deer is out cold, I think it's dead. I go looking for a Ranger but after 30 minutes I go back and the deer is gone..... I get back to the camp and left front wheel has a 10 inch ring of deer fur stuck in the bead.

3 years later.... meeting the knuckleheads at Convict Lake to spread ashes of my best friend. I'm sitting in my camp site alone after many tears and frosties. This old deer comes bounding towards me and stops at my camp fire, looks me over and walks away slowly..... I joke that it was the same deer with a ring of fur missing.

 

Mine was with a 7mm. 183# dressed, 10 points.

About 7 years ago, I hit 3 in a matter of 6 months, all with Fords.

 

Back In South Dakota I was riding with my neighbor in his International Scout and everyone in front of us were slowing for deer crossing the highway, we were almost stopped when I looked over just before a deer ran straight into the drivers side door! BAM! scared the crap out of my neighbor, it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen, the deer flopped around for a minute then got up and ran off.

 

I've hit two deer in my life (61 years). Both in collector cars. Both in West Virginia on US 50.

The first one was in my Bugeye Sprite. At night driving through the mountains I'd missed a dozen or more by watching close, but the last one came out of nowhere and hit me on the drivers side front fender. Bounced off and I drove over him. The only vision I have of him is from the rear view mirror as I drove on. He put one three inch crease in the fender that I've never fixed. Never seemed necessary, it's just a battle scar.

Last year, though, was worse. I was driving with my friend Rusty to WV in his '57 panel to pick up body parts for it. It was about 5:00 a.m. and it was my turn to drive. Normally when you have a wreck it's "oh shxx, bang". Well, this was "bang, oh shxx". All I saw was a flash of headlights reflecting off his body, then the impact. Since then it's used the parts we were headed to pick up, plus a parts truck to set it right. It feels bad when it's your own, but when it's somebody else's truck it's worse. Here's a cell phone pic of it after the sun came up. Stu

 

Back in 1978 I was driving sown a back road at night with my 52 F1 and came over a hill (at a high rate of speed for the flathead) and there were 3 horses coming down the road, with both feet on the standard brakes I hit 2 of them, one off each fender. That started my 30 years of restoration that I should have finished years ago.

 

ouch stu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well the best one i can give you is the moose i hit in a cabover ih pulling a flatbed on a state route in wisconsin going to sturgeon bay ???? it hoited me and the truck .... after that a few years back running at night across i72 from springpatch to champagne from 5pm till 2am in a 9ton straight truck hauling mail , i got 19 of them one year alone .

 

This one takes the prize... a Beemer hit a small type of deer at 140 on the Autobahn..... how'd you like to be the mechanic that cleaned that up?!

 

EEEEEWWWW!

going to go get some breakfast now......

 

Several years ago my brother and I were on a motorcycle trip. We were in the Gila Wilderness heading out towards Snow Lake, running down a dirt road at about 45 or 50 when a big doe elk steps out onto the road missing my brother by inches. I was riding behind him, I see the elk step out and I get on the brakes, do a bit of sliding, make some pucker marks in the seat and miss the elk....whew. She stepped off the far side of the road and dissappeared down the slope.

I got lucky on that one
Bobby

 

I've been lucky (so far) with vehicles only have hit a wild turkey. My Father hit a deer and so has my sis in law. There are a lot of deer here right in the suburbs, deer hits a plenty. We regularly see them grazing on the side of the road, night and day, carcasses along the shoulder. We have a pretty liberal deer hunting statute, can take a deer a day during hunting season, but the population is increasing faster than they are bagged, especially in areas where you can't hunt.