My first encounter with deer.....

Ive got a deer whistle on my truck. My only encounter with deer has been having a "dead" deer that was laid flat out in the middle of a backwoods Nebraska highway at 1am actually get up when I was about 20 feet away and leave. I havent been able to look at roadkill the same since. And let me tell you, it scared the daylights out of my student at the time for her to be laying in her bunk and then hear my start hollering and cussing up a storm like that.

 

best thing to do with deer is nothing at all. don't swerve don't hit the breaks don't slow down blow the horn or flash your lights. they will move out of your way. anything you do that may confuse them or startle them is a bad thing. if you do happen to hit one insurance will cover it. you still may hit one if they are being chased by something else coyote ect and hell bent for the horizon. last deer i hit was about 5 years ago and it ran right into the side of me. it tried to leap for the gap between the truck and the trailer and was running hell bent out of the woods. smashed in the front of the trailer but didn't touch the truck.

i used to always think people were full of it when they would give me that advice in the past and would normally hit a deer every 1-2 years. then i went to work for a guy and was driving a truck that was running a little hot on long hard pulls and the owner told me to try to hit a deer so he could get a new radiator and air to air on the insurance company.

 

If you have a deer standing in the roadway doing the 'deer in the headlights' routine I find the Jake usually gets them moving.

I can see moving left or right to avoid an immobile object if you know it's safe to move there. Trying to avoid a deer that way isn't a good idea though.

I've had many a close call but have yet to hit one. I've never altered my course to avoid one but I will definitely alter my speed.

Here's a recent close call.

 

If its your truck then get a good quality moose bumper on it then you can just smoke the deer and keep on Truckin!

 

I have the chrome version deer alerts and I've had sightings as recent as last night. Mine work great. The deer are always running towards my lane from off the highway, look at my truck, then sprint the other way. This works for dogs and other small animals also. You have to be moving at least 30MPH before they work.

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Damage to the truck front-end is usually minimal with deer. Its best to never ever swerve for any animal.

 

I'll elaborate further by saying its best not to swerve for anything. If it happens to be a human, you cannot avoid stupid.