Have you ever been involved in a deer/vehicle collision?

DON'T SWERVE !!! Best advice ever !!
Almost clobbered 3 last night ( 2 lane in the mountains ) , my advise along with his is don't go faster than you can see ( curves and hills ) and if you can get a car to go first , follow about 4 truck length behind with lowbeams

 

HA! Always better to follow a stooge, but most times, it's when you are all alone. I agree, schmear 'em high, but don't wreck the truck.

 

Did you mean 6 deer? I am just wondering if you forgot Georgia deer writing about it because that would make six. I don't go around correcting people but am curious on this. That Georgia deer was a bad hit , sorry about that.
OOPS My bad. I see Georgia is in the five list ...........I am wrong again !

 

Wrong is such a harsh word, let's just say, "failed to realize",,,

 

You are very sweet , I appreciate you. Nobody is always right. Humans make mistakes, I am able to admit it.

 

Just please whatever you do don’t hit Santa early on a Christmas morning. Lol.

 

A hot rodder friend of my uncles used to daily drive a chopped ‘39 chevy to his hvac maintainace job in the Austin school district back in the 80’s and early 90’s. He ran mornings before light and home every night after dark. He hit so many deer with that car over the years ( a few dozen we believe) he named it the Deer Hunter. After he’d fix the damage he’d air brush another antler head on the front fender like the “kills” tallys on a WW2 fighter plane.

 

Let's hope not... lol

 

Hey, I'm also single,,,besides, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

 

We have a problem with people moving up here from the city and feeding the deer. There's an old saying "A fed deer is a dead deer" and it's true. The deer tend to congregate, especially in the winter, and they create a hell of a traffic problem.
We had a couple of well meaning but clueless people who lived right along the county road we were using as a haul road. They'd throw out corn for the deer every morning just about the time our trucks were headed out with their first load. Sometimes there would be fifteen or twenty deer milling around.
We were using old pieces of frame rail for bumpers so the first few hits weren't too bad but inevitably we lost a couple of fenders and a fuel tank. The delay time for finishing off a wounded deer, butchering, and dragging it out of the road really added up.
I went to the people and asked them politely to quit feeding the deer. They got all upset and defensive. They said as a Native American I should know all about respecting the deer and that the deer needed to be cared for and every other woke excuse for doing something as dumb as they were doing. I think they watched too many of those wild life shows on television.
The first one I hit had a broken spine and the homeowners wanted me to take it to the vet in town. They were upset when I wouldn't do it. I told them to just shoot it and butcher out what they could. They didn't own any guns and they didn't know how to butcher. That was an instructive morning for them.
I eventually wound up having to call the game wardens out and the CHP too. I didn't want to but they didn't leave me any choice. The game wardens cited them for something, I don't know what, and the CHP wrote them for creating and sustaining a traffic hazard.
They quit feeding the deer.