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10-25-2012, 09:00 AM | Topic Starter |
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Anyone here ever hit a deer?
My wife hit a big one about a year ago with the minivan- $5k in damage, almost totaled the vehicle. Fixed it, and then I hit another deer with the same van 4 months later. Totaled this time.
Followed a car home the other night- a deer ran out in front of that car. He slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting it, and I came within 6" from rear-ending him as a result. There have been a few other close calls as well. I'm hearing that this is getting epidemic nowadays. Anyone else have a deer meets car story? http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoram...205600315.html |
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10-25-2012, 09:01 AM | #2 |
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10-25-2012, 09:12 AM | #3 |
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Around here, they say there are only two kinds of drivers - those that have hit a deer and those that haven't hit one yet. So far, I am in the second category though have gotten close several times. The way I have been driving to work has been a gauntlet since it has gotten dark in the morning.
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10-25-2012, 09:16 AM | #4 | |
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A funny deer story. We had this high school kid working for us. He was driving this like 72 Ford 3/4 ton. It was a gomer. Anyway, he left work and headed for home. Hit a deer. Busted up the grill and shit. He was pissed. He thought his dad would think he was ****ing off and wrecked. So he tied a chain onto the varmint and drug it all the way home so his dad could see that he actually hit a deer. |
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10-25-2012, 09:33 AM | #5 | |
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The only time I've been in a car that hit a deer was riding up to Canada with my folks and my girlfriend at the time. We are driving down the road in broad daylight and this thing came shooting out of the brush at the side of the road and ran smack into the back door of the car. It left a nose print on the window by where my girlfriend was sitting. Scared the shit out of her. Didn't do any real damage to the car and the deer ran off. It was just weird having run into the back half of the car like that. |
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10-25-2012, 09:13 AM | #6 |
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Man, there are a lot of those out here. Those goddamned animals are out of control. I cut a field of Sorghum the other day, and there was a significant herd 10+ of white tails on one side and ANOTHER herd of Mule deer on the other.
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10-25-2012, 09:15 AM | #7 |
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10-25-2012, 09:17 AM | #9 |
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They were getting really bad here basically in the middle of the city, especially around the Shawnee Mission Park area. I remember a few years ago they let a bunch of bow hunters go in the park and get around 200 of them. Things were starving to death because there was just too many.
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10-25-2012, 12:08 PM | #11 | |
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It's $225 for a non-resident firearm tag in Missouri and it's $17 for a resident tag. WTF sense does that make? You're doing this to kill the damn things - let more people come in and do it. It's just nuts to go hunting out of state and Missouri really isn't any worse than anywhere else.
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10-25-2012, 09:34 AM | #13 |
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****ing PETA freaks. We should send them the auto repair bills.
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10-25-2012, 09:18 AM | #14 |
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in this area of Virginia i usually see one every 5 miles, i've been lucky so far.
keeps the highway department busy cleaning up 460.
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10-25-2012, 09:27 AM | #15 | |
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They had a high divider between east and westbound traffic on the interstate and the deer would get on the road, figure out they couldn't jump the wall, panic and try to back across traffic. They were basically pinned in once they got on the interstate. |
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