Anyone hit a deer before?
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From: Sioux City, Iowa
I was coming down a dirt road to a friends house just outside of town. I went arounds a bend at I heard a clunk, turned around seen I hit a deer. I had a shotgun but no slugs for it just bird shot. That same night I ran over a fat possum on my street.
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Ya I hit a deer once. The night I bought my Ford F-150 4x4. I had got it around noon. So I went and shinned it up, waxed it and put some "tire wet" on it. Then I was cruising over to my girlfriends house that night after she got off work. I wasn't maybe 1mi from her house and a doe ran in front of me. Since the truck was lifted with oversize tires I didn't even swerve. I just hit it. Lucky for me the truck had a chrome grill gaurd on the front and the doe just bounced off of that and went flying off the road.
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From: New Gretna, New Jersey
A friend of mine was headed home on a back road through the woods about 5-10 miles from his house when he hit a doe doing about 55( him, not the doe). It busted his radiator support, radiator, fan. Since he was so close to home he just gunned it to try and make it home before all his coolant leaked out. About 1 more mile down the road he was cruising about 60 now and a 10 pt velvet buck ran out in front of him and he hit that one too. The buck finished off the front end of the truck, but he still made it home.
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From: Somewhere in da corn,Iowa
Never hit a deer yet, but I fix them all the time. In the past month I have had 15 car/truck/vans come in that have hit deer. One camaro was totalled by a deer, and I had a F150 that it just broke the grille and headlights in it.
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From: Tn.
I have hit 2 deer's 1 in a ford ranger I was going 70 MPH on a country Road and out of the corner of my left eye I see a Deer running full sprint i see it take it's last three galopes in 2 sec time deer crosses road truck hits deer tore him in half his head thr center of my bumper an d his rearend hit wheel and DS front corner panel $1400 smackers worth of damage and it messed the truck up prety bad too
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From: Tn.
deer stories
The other I was in my Beeamer late to work but a lil wiser and older i was doing 30 and it broke my grill and pulled some of his hair off nothing super glue coulnd't fix! and I had to get a new grill
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From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
One Christmas day took my dog up into the hills above where we live for his run then decided to take the 75 Colony Park wagon out for a bit of a drive at night. Two deer ran out in front and one didn't clear. Broke the right front grill, the plastic around the disappearing headlights and the fibreglass cowling above the grill. A slight bend in the fender and a broken signal light. Cost $250 to repair (parts) I did the labour. The deer ended up as lion food at the zoo. Gotta love that Colony Park, it was built like a truck.
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From: Montana Territory
I was driving across North Dakota, and just past the Missouri river near Jamestown I managed to meet an oncoming crowd of frogs crossing the interstate. I had to stop in J-Town and wsh the truck... it smelled pretty bad...
In '03 my dad hit a moose with our new Volvo truck, less that 75,000 miles on the truck and it was pretty well beat, over 150 feet of skids to go with the smashed up front end... He's also hit 6 deer at a time and several ducks, one made it into the cab and died in the passenger seat...creepy.... ewww
In '03 my dad hit a moose with our new Volvo truck, less that 75,000 miles on the truck and it was pretty well beat, over 150 feet of skids to go with the smashed up front end... He's also hit 6 deer at a time and several ducks, one made it into the cab and died in the passenger seat...creepy.... ewww
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From: WI
I can honestly say that I dont know anyone that lives outside of town in my area that has never hit a deer. I have three to my count. My wife has one, and a bear. The deer are pretty thick up here in the northwoods of wisconsin and during the rut the body shops get backed up because of the increase in deer hits. I see a new dead deer on my drive to work (about 7 miles) at least once every two weeks.
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From: Detroit 'burbs
To thoes of you who intentionally hit deer, cats, etc. I believe you have some deep rooted mental issues and I wish you the absolute worst in life.
My g/f and I were in the Upper (Michigans's U.P., EH?) and it was about 10 at night and we were driving down a pitch black county road. I saw a doe's eyes off on the side of the road and I told my g/f, who was driving my truck, to slow down because of the deer up ahead on the side of the road. No sooner I said that another doe jumped right in front of us and she slammed on the break and we hit it going about 30-35mph. We were going 55mph but I figured as soon as she saw the frist deer she started to hit the brake.
I got out expecting to see a dead deer or a smashed grille and to my suprise I saw neither. The deer took off running and all it left behind was some fur stuck to the dead bug guts on my front bumper.
My g/f and I were in the Upper (Michigans's U.P., EH?) and it was about 10 at night and we were driving down a pitch black county road. I saw a doe's eyes off on the side of the road and I told my g/f, who was driving my truck, to slow down because of the deer up ahead on the side of the road. No sooner I said that another doe jumped right in front of us and she slammed on the break and we hit it going about 30-35mph. We were going 55mph but I figured as soon as she saw the frist deer she started to hit the brake.
I got out expecting to see a dead deer or a smashed grille and to my suprise I saw neither. The deer took off running and all it left behind was some fur stuck to the dead bug guts on my front bumper.
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hit one going 70 in 03 tarus, did $4200 worth of damage to it. We do almost all our driving on gravel roads too tough.
sound wave I could tell you some stories, but I have no problem with people trying to hit them, just as long as they go back and make sure they're finished off. I've done it before, and I love hunting, but dont let the damn animals suffer.
sound wave I could tell you some stories, but I have no problem with people trying to hit them, just as long as they go back and make sure they're finished off. I've done it before, and I love hunting, but dont let the damn animals suffer.
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From: Oak Hills, Ca
5 am two lane road in the middle of the desert. Out comes a jackrabbit, and literally stops right in the wheel weel of the road, and stares right at me, I was heading to the river, towing a boat, so no swerving or hard braking just red and yellow stuff up the entire drivers side of my truck. I must have just barely hit him with the outside of my tire because that stuff was flung all over my door.
Hit a few dogs and lots of jackrabbits, ran over quite a few rattlesnakes too, but this one is the only thing that left guts all over the side of my truck.
Hit a few dogs and lots of jackrabbits, ran over quite a few rattlesnakes too, but this one is the only thing that left guts all over the side of my truck.