Hit by a deer @ 65mph

[got3fords]

Plenty of good deer rifles without a removable magazine.

Perhaps, but completely not the point.

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[got3fords]

idk the last one attacked me! i had to file a restraining order! now it just sits outside the house with a bat waiting for me!

Are we still talking animals?

 

[Rhino]

Are we still talking animals?

sure looks like one! but more like the chicken from family guy!

 

[RANGER_MARC]

2022 with only 2500miles - paid off

Wow, hope everybody is alright (and that the truck can be made alright again at a reasonable price). Just yesterday afternoon, driving back to northern Delaware after a few days down in Maryland, we saw a big buck cut straight across Delaware Route 1, dancing around about ten vehicles, including our own Ranger, all going (at least) 65 MPH, before making the far side and heading into the woods untouched. Why does a grown deer have to cross the highway at three o'clock in the afternoon? One of these days, buddy, bam!

 

[Muddy Fenders]

Plenty of good deer rifles without a removable magazine.

don't even point that out to my government, its probably an oversight on their part.

 

[got3fords]

Why does a grown deer have to cross the highway at three o'clock in the afternoon? One of these days, buddy, bam!

I guess they take more chances during the rut. Might have sniffed a hot doe on the other side.

 

[Apples]

Here is what could have happened:

 

[Joeiconic]

Perhaps, but completely not the point.

I wasn’t trying to make a point. Just speaking matter of factly.

 

[Dogdays]

I have had a few close calls this year. It's central Va. It's normal. But the closest call I had was just inches (it seemed) when one ran across the road in front of me, with a freshly harvested buck on the back! Didn't even have time to hit the brakes, just luckily missed it.

Don't you guys know about deer whistles?

 

[got3fords]

Don't you guys know about deer whistles?

obviously you have never done any research on this snake oil.
"Unfortunately, there is no hard evidence that deer whistles work – that deer can actually hear the whistles or, if they do, that they're turned away from the road," says Russ Rader, spokesman for the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

 

[Skit hjälm]

Sad news for sure !
I only hit an empty 5gal paint bucket bounced directly in front of me on my way home from the Ford Dealer.
Only suffered some latex spatter underneath and inner tyre sidewall.
Deer are year round serious problem where I live.
Its a predator free island and unhealthy overpopulation. I have close call every week.
The Deputy tells me about 250 are hit annually. Thats by about 4800 full time residents. Obviously that 250 doesn't include those quietly taken home.
The only benefit is typically slow speeds on our winding roads and the inbred deer are fairly small.

 

[1pt21gw]

Here is what could have happened:

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[ControlNode]

Deer be creeping by the road just waiting to mess up your day/night.

Caught this one hiding in the ditch across from my house this week.

 

[Muddy Fenders]

Deer be creeping by the road just waiting to mess up your day/night.

Caught this one hiding in the ditch across from my house this week.

Did you check on him? maybe its legs was broke from already messing up someones day.

 

[ControlNode]

Did you check on him? maybe its legs was broke from already messing up someones day.

Was standing and walking in the ditch just fine.

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