Don't swerve for deer...

If you slam your brakes on and dive the front end you can get that deer up in your windshield is the reason for not hitting the brakes. Good wildlife guard that protects the headlights and the rest is best.

 

I agree

 

I meant maybe he had seen a deer or two earlier and slowed down from that, expecting more. But I admit I wasn't there so I shouldn't be so judgmental. I apologize for being a smarty pants.

 

Depending on the area, you can have deer for many, many miles grazing on the side of the road. If you're paid by the mile or under a time crunch, driving slow for mile after mile can be a time killer.
I used to run OR 26 from Portland to Seaside twice a week as part of a route. In the winter months, I remember several of those nights seeing deer shoulder grazing. I was spotting one or two at a time probably every 100 yards, and that went on for about ten miles or better. (Talk about prime hunting area, if that's your thing!)

 

Just hit the #### thing. A truck is replaceable. I don't like hitting animals but I'm not risking myself or anyone for one either. I drive a smooth bore tanker, hitting the brakes or swerving never crosses my mind and isn't an option.

I've smoked some raccoons and prairie dogs this month but what else am I supposed to do going 70 something mph?

 

Thank you for not swerving. I'm not the other guy, but it's safer for all of us when people don't freak out.

 

Years back I hit a deer on the edge of Hugo, Colo., about the size of a great dane. In death, it got revenge. He bent my bumper, but landed in the NB lane with a couple of hooves in the air. Dick Simon (remember them) heading NB, I yelled at him on the CB, either he didn't hear or something, he hit the dear. When I came back through 6 hrs later, Simon was sitting parked, he had left a trail of diesel behind him, the hooves broke his crossover line. One of my coworkers has hit 2 in the last month, thankfully we have steel bumpers, so it was just bent and dented.

I've become quite the menace to birds. So far this year, I've killed at least 4 dozen starlings, two hawks and two owls.

 

I think if you drive a fair amount at night you'll hit owls. I've hit 2 in AZ and the hills are lousy with elk in the spring time, luckily they are so tall you can see them from quite a distance. I haven't hit an elk but have had to use my brakes in anger.

 

I kept seeing elk signs in the black hills and kept an eye out and the hammer up. Definately not trying to smoke an elk, or have one smoke me...

 

They all liquefy when hit by a big truck.
Just drive,and hold on if you do hit some hooved animal.
You cant control it,and with all the building going on,the animals have
less real estate.
Unfortunately,its become part of driving.