1st non preventable
#1
1st non preventable
Had a deer strike........just so happened to be a quarter mile from my house on the way back to the yard from my last store. Prolly fed the poor bastard a few times! God it sounded horrible, sounded like a car crash as the bumper got destroyed. I was dropping pieces the next half mile till I could safely get off the road and check the damage. 52mph into a large buck that was around 180 pounds minimum. Drug him at least 300 feet and scalped his antlers. Wife saw him and thought I had mistaken it, she swore it was a doe, it was after I got done with it! Being that I was pulling a reefer, shop asked if I tossed it into the trailer........ Nope, didn't think Walmart would like their trailer full of blood. Handed them what was left of the bumper.......what's this, dirt? Uh no, that's poo, I literally knocked the $hlt out of that buck!
#2
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Somewhere between Rochester NY and Gaults' Gulch
Posts: 2,698
Welcome to the club! I get about one a year even with deer whistles, before the whistles it was unbelievable. I once hit 4 at one time, another time one went under and cleaned off some airlines and wound itself around the driveshaft. Road service wouldn't touch that one! At least you drove it back.
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#3
yes, welcome to the "deer strike club", i'm not just A spokesman, i'm a member..>!!!
yes, striking a deer DOES MAKE a god awful sound. i got lucky, only the front quarter bumper, and he somehow bent UP my passenger side step!, and he destroyed my quarter fender. i was able to get it back to my starting point, then took it to Penske. called my boss later that morning, as i get in about 5 AM, so i wasn't going to wake him up. no problems, no worries.
#4
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 190
yes, welcome to the "deer strike club", i'm not just A spokesman, i'm a member..>!!!
yes, striking a deer DOES MAKE a god awful sound. i got lucky, only the front quarter bumper, and he somehow bent UP my passenger side step!, and he destroyed my quarter fender. i was able to get it back to my starting point, then took it to Penske. called my boss later that morning, as i get in about 5 AM, so i wasn't going to wake him up. no problems, no worries. |
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