Howdy again boys!! Well, I hit my second deer tonight on my way home from a firefighter training class! Luckily, it only messed up my grill and dented my bumper a little bit(thank god for real bumpers!!) and my LED strobes i have in my grill are ok($75 a piece). I didnt even see the bugger until she was right in front of me around a curve. I felt bad because it was a big doe and I hope she wasn't carrying any little deer, being an avid hunter I like to increase the population. With that being said, lets hear your stories about hitting critters; deer, birds anything. Lets see some pictures if you have any, Ill try and get some up soon. Later guys!

 

I ran over a squirrel last year. No pics.

I almost hit a bunny on the same stretch of road last week. Lucky guy got away.

 

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But I also hit a couple birds. One went through my grill without damaging it, and got stuck in my tranny cooler just this past summer. Another one bounced off my windshield a couple years ago.

 

In my truck, I was hauling a load of scrap home for the night to take in later. Doe wiped out, hit her head off my bumper. Went back, had apparently killed her instantly, no damage to the truck, no body damage, so yep, took her home and put her in the freezer.
Another time, a little one wiped out, fell down and ran over the neck. A few miles down the road, daddy got even, wiped out the whole front of my van, then ran away...

 

Sometimes its much cheaper to hunt with a rifle.

 

I have hit lots of animals and stuff.

But the one that really hurt was hitting a deer on my Goldwing years ago.

Its onething to hit them in a truck, but damn its bad on a bike.

 

I seem to have better success in finding them with vehicles... I have better accuracy too it would seem...

 

My wife used a 96 T-bird, she got the only deer that year. Its like Ron White says, "slow that bullet down to 60 mph and put a pair of little headlights on it, the deer will jump in front of the bullet!".

 

A 77 delta 88 with bus rims welded to the front bumper would be my critter gitter of choice.

 

Saturday night driving my friends car on a paper route I got Thumper. He thumped twice under the car and that was all she wrote. Almost got Bambi's kin too.lol

 

One evening I had my two daughters with me. They were like 8 and 10 years old. We had just left a Sportsman’s Club after seeing a wild animal show there. The science department from a local university had brought down a young Skunk, Beaver, Raccoon, and Opossum to show off to the kids.

Anyway, we had my ’86 Mustang GT that night. On the way home, it had begun to rain hard so I took it easy driving in the dark. We only got a few miles out from the club and were going down a steep hill. In an oncoming car’s headlights I suddenly see a silhouette of a small of animal walking across the highway into my lane.

The road was soaked and there was no time to avoid the crash! I just hung onto the steering wheel tightly to keep the car straight and then we heard, BANG, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, BANG.

Daughter One says: “What was that daddy”?

Daughter Two says: “What happened”?

Me: “Well, you know how that university guy said that Opossums are slow moving”?

It was a terrible sound hearing the Opossum tumbling underneath the GT, but I had no choice. I wasn’t going to go into a skid on a wet road over a suicidal Opossum!

The next day, the guys at the shop had a good laugh over this story!

 

It was late one evening, I just got done taking a crew to Denver from Cheyenne and was heading home. Out of know where here was a nice buck deer, I hit brakes but still hit the deer. The grill guard that they put on front of the Suburban made the air bag go off when the deer hit. Broke the drivers side lights and pushed the grill guard up in the hood. The worst part was I got the second newest vehicle that the company had less than 8000 miles on it. The companys motto is Every Accident is Preventable.

 

Is a Porsche considered a critter?

 

i got a suicidal pigeon with a Wilson T-5000 CB antenna.
cut that damn bird clean in half, with one side going back all over my brand new trailer, and the other half on the other side of the road into the windshield of a car.

 

We had a Fusion brought in from Enterprise Rent A Car yesterday. Clumps of deer hair stuck to the full width of the bumper. All the air bags deployed. Both the front and side bags. It will go to auction as the cost of the repair is above Enterprises limits.