Don't swerve for deer...

That could have been ugly! Did you notice the deer stepping on the gas when it realized that the slower truck was running interference for you?

 

I guess the other truck was going slow for a reason then...

 

Too bad you can't drive everyones truck for them. I don't know if the world would be a safer place, but it would certainly be way more self-righteous.

 

Definitely close!
I was told by someone that if a strike is inevitable, don't slow down, but instead, hit the gas. The reason being that it's better to trybto throw the animal clear the risk rolling over it at slower speeds. I may not be wording this right, but on the surface it seems to make sense.
(I haven't tagged a deer yet, but I have several cats, a coyote and a duck family on my "hit sheet"...)

 

If you are going to take a large animal out, hope you have a bull rack up front or a steel bumper down low. If you had a plastic or rubber dam like I did a few times it only makes a mess under everything.

I usually hold the rig stable through the kill. But generally hate it. If anything I really hate the red river region between Oklahoma and Texas on the little unmarked roads there because very large cattle and bulls tend to get out of the fields at night weighing more than cars, with a hide color that matches pavement. I go slow in those areas.

The closest deer I can remember was we had one get across us, and there were 5 more that wanted out of the field next to us at 50. We managed to allow them that out across our front end. I don't even want to think about what damage 800 plus pounds of deer would have done.

Forget the #### deer LOL. It's MOOSE you need to worry about. The #### things will run along the pavement that is plowed rather than the 3 foot snow off road. And there you are waiting for them things to hop off. And mating season? oh boy....

 

Its not the one that you miss. Its the one behind him.