Any of you ever hit a deer?

[bowtie]

This past Saturday morning I was heading home about 1am out in the country in Laporte when out of nowhere this huge buck decides to jump out in front of me and I blasted him doing about 60mph in my truck.

Ive never experienced anything like this before. It was like going through a brick wall. My truck more then likely is a loss.

To all you hunters out there: Hunt and kill them all!

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Luckily not yet, but I've had a few close calls. The deer like to jump out in front of police cars on the way to priority runs for some reason.

 

[printcraft]

My cousin and I hit a deer ........... on the way to go deer hunting.

I turned around to get something out of the back seat and heard the proverbial "OH !!!"
I looked up to see the deer on the windshield.

 

[JetGirl]

Best way for hunters to snag every single one... you gotta slow those bullets down to about 55 or 60mph and mount some high beams on them. Deer can't resist jumping out in front of 'em.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I scratched one behind the ears once, but I didn't hit her.

 

[rat-man]

When I was 15 my dad was driving me home from having a dental procedure done, and seemingly out of nowhere a very large buck was chasing two does across the road, hit the buck with the driver's side quarter panel and his ass swung around and caved in the rear half of the drivers side of the car. His neck and head took out the windshield. Doing 55-60mph. 12 pointer, and he was pretty d*mn big from memory.

Totaled the car. The buck was stunned on the side of the road and wandered off after lying there for a few minutes, I'm sure he probably died from internal injuries. He was gone before help arrived for us.

We were fine.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Yes, as a matter of fact. A couple have fallen to Kirk "the car killer" Freeman. It's like I have a deer magnet in my vehicles.

Here are pics from the first one. I-65 southbound, slowed and honked horn thinking is would scamper away like a nimble forest creature, deer turned and charged me. He hit me when I was at 50mph, target angle 330 or so (driver's side headlight, rolled down the driver's side, $3,300 in damages).

 

[Caleb]

I hit one a couple weeks ago in the volvo...the approaching angle of the hood as I hit the brakes hard was just below the body of the dear and ended up rolling the deer onto the hood, only damage I saw was some extra scratches.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Thankfully I never have! Plenty of other critters, but nothing with hooves...yet.

My step dad, however, has had 2-3 deer hit HIM. He's replaced a lot of door panels and mirrors.

 

[jsharmon7]

I nicked one, so I guess that counts. I had just gotten my truck back from the body shop (thanks, drunk driver) and was cruising down a county road one morning. Out from behind a hill steps Mr. Buck and stares me down, begging me to test him. He may have thrown a gang sign at me, actually. I hit the brakes and swerve, he hits the hoof and swerves. I grazed him with my front bumper, pooped my pants, and pulled over to check things out. My only damage was a 3" scrape on my bumper with some fur stuck to it. I can't speak for his end of the confrontation, he was gone.

 

[mrjarrell]

I've never hit one, thank goodness, but someone in a pickup hit one right by my house the other night. Didn't look like it did a lot of damage, but definitely broke some glass. Deer are always running behind my house and crossing the road. Surprised the county hasn't put up a deer crossing sign yet. Been more than one corpse out there over the years. Saw a real pretty buck out beside the road last week. Must have been at least a 6 or 8 pointer.

 

[jsharmon7]

I've never hit one, thank goodness, but someone in a pickup hit one right by my house the other night. Didn't look like it did a lot of damage, but definitely broke some glass. Deer are always running behind my house and crossing the road. Surprised the county hasn't put up a deer crossing sign yet. Been more than one corpse out there over the years. Saw a real pretty buck out beside the road last week. Must have been at least a 6 or 8 pointer.

I've never figured out how they train the deer to cross at the sign. Deer must be smarter than I give them credit.

 

[Caleb]

I've never figured out how they train the deer to cross at the sign. Deer must be smarter than I give them credit.

Are you suggesting that darwin works on deers too?

 

[FatsMcKay]

Yeah kind of embarrassing. Met this doe at a local salt lick, hit it and quit it.

 

[IndyDave1776]

I've never figured out how they train the deer to cross at the sign. Deer must be smarter than I give them credit.

 

[mrjarrell]

I've never figured out how they train the deer to cross at the sign. Deer must be smarter than I give them credit.

All I've ever noticed is that there are no deer around those signs. Seems to drive them all away.

 

[Miller Tyme]

4 in the last 2 1/2 years, 3 in my work van, and 2 of them where 3 days apart. But the turkeys around here are almost as bad.

 

[Que]

I took out a big buck in Michigan. Everyone who stopped to see if we were okay asked if they could have him.

 

[bwframe]

I've hit six, luckily never with extensive damage. The last one was the worst, a huge buck took out my grill.

 

[gregkl]

A deer hit me this past week on my way to ND.