[ARCHIVED THREAD] - I hate deer... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/26/2007 11:20:41 PM EDT
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Damned deer. It's been over a year and my streak has come to a close. One of those stupid sons-a-bitches ran out in front of me on the way home. Bumper, passenger headlight, fender, passenger rear door, there's a $250 deductible pissed away. That's money that could have been spent on bullets, match fees, or even beer! In a way I blame myself. I didn't kill any of those stupid bastards this past season. I didn't even get a license last year. That will be the last time that happens. This year I'm getting a license and as many bonus tags as I can. I fucking hate deer. |
First, let me say that I don't like deer meat. For the last few years, I gave away all that I killed. I even did the "Hunters Sharing the Harvest" program, where you pay the meat cutter to process the deer and take it to the shelter for the hungry. Second, the bastard didn't die! The damn thing got up and ran. I hope it dies, I'm just sorry I didn't get to finish it. Do I sound bitter? |
Yes, if it died, I could call the game commission and get a tag for it to legally posses the dead animal for consumption.
Oh, you're going straight to hell for that one! 
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I don't want to come off as a PETA apologist. I would'a rammed the sucker a second time. I don't care for deer meat much either. But it supplements the household groceries. |
Didn't it die? |
I hope so, but not within sight of me. They are surprisingly tough, I've hit a few, some died, some ran. This one got up and ran. |
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Here's a link to a pretty funny deer hit story. www.advrider.com/Fame/Deer.html This guy hit a deer on a Honda ST1100 motorcycle. I get a laugh every time I read it. |
That must have been tough, hitting a deer as it rode by on its motorcycle. My sister thought deer were very pretty animals. She thought that about her rose garden, too.  Now she supports deer hunting.
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Hit one 3 weeks ago in my Tracker. (not that much damage, actually. I was impressed) It's like hitting a Matchbox Car with a sledge hammer . It (deer) didn't survive the slide after hitting it....(well, it did but hitting it the second time and rolling over it twice made sure of it.) F'ing deer. Had to chase it across the ditch to hit it the second time. Damn thing made me get my truck dirty.Grille and insert (damn insert cost more than the grille), bumper cover, bent bumper, fender, headlight and bucket, metal under the bucket and a slightly bent tie rod/steering linkage from going across the ditch when I noticed it still moving. EBAY was much cheaper than the deductable, and with the exception of the fender getting painted, is all done. If I'd had something to shoot it with, I'd have emptied the mags. F'ing deer. Nothing but large furry forest rats. |
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A deer took out the driver side of my minivan this past November. Second deer strike in a year. My route home from work takes me through 2 prime deer crossing areas. I have had dozens of near misses in the last year. The deer are like cochroaches, except the deer seem to swarm to my headlights. My first seer accident, the deer ran up out of the ditch and hit the side of my van, I didn't run into it, it ran into me. A few years ago, a neighbor was coming home from a fishing trip. He was driving a pickup with a boat in tow. Deer runs out and runs into the pickup, he only got a glimpse of it as it flashed ot of the ditch. It hit the front edge of the flaired fender for the driver side rear tire. Friend stops to check damage, he has a decent dent in the side of his truck, deer no deer to be found. He continues on his way home, and once home starts to unpack. He finds a dead deer in the boat. It somehow got launched upwards on the hit and fell into the boat dead. |
Pardon the intrusion: A pair of deer whistles mounted on the front bumper is a dang sight cheaper.......... (for the last 6 years I have made the run from Houston to Pecos, NM - non-stop 13 hours thru the night up 36 & 84 thru some of worse counties for deer on the planet - stopped counting last year at 200 - TOTAL DEER HIT IN THE LAST 6 YEARS = 0) YMMV, but they work IMO. mike |
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I hate them so badly, I will sit alone in the forest for hours just to assasinate one with my highpowerd killing machine. Then to celebrate my evil deed, I will feast on it's flesh for months.  |
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I've hit 9 of the bastards so far. A diesel turbo intercooler for a Dodge is just damn near 1000$. One incident, I had deer whistle's on. Deer was feeding on the right shoulder. I got slowed down to 15 Mph, and oved over in the left lane shoulder. Deer raised his head, and ran directly into the passager door of my pickup. Deer whistle's my ASS. I hate Deer as well. 
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Your immaturity is showing. |
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I've never hit one yet but my luck will run out soon. In my part of PA they are plentiful and there are many of them. Lack of hunting near the city and suburbs has let their population grown out of control for years so the number of deer lying on the road has increased as well. I've had many near-hits but no hits. |
You are one of those that think deer whistles work AHAHAHAH!!!!!! You know how you can find a moron? Look for a "Deer Whistles on their vehicle. AHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
Um he posted his experience. 6 years of high volume driving in a high deer population area for one person is hardly a scientific study, but it is a heck of a lot more data/proof than a long string of H's and A's. I have never used them and don't know if they work. But I sure know who is putting up a better argument above. If you are going to laugh at someone and call them a fool, post some proof or data stating the reason. Just laughing at someone for no reason makes you look pretty stupid. |
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I hit one on OCt 31st last year on my way home to take my daughter trick-or-treating. I was riding my Honda Shadow and came around the curve and it ran right in front of me. I hit it head on and someone must have been watching out for me as the bike did not go dowm. $2400 in damages but I was glad to walk away. Then two weeks ago one ran in front of me on my way home after plowing snow. Hit it with the plow and launched it 6ft in the air |
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For those of you that have the deer whistles: you must have the round ones. The square ones don't work. You want to know why? The deer have a hard time wrapping their lips around the square edges.  Lots of tests out there on the effectiveness of "deer whistles". With VERY few exceptions, they DO NOT WORK, PERIOD. There's an electronic one that has a better record, but still relatively ineffective. If they could figure out why deer run into vehicles, you'd think they could figure out why people do stupid shit. Imagine the money that could be made if you could figure out why people spend money on stupid shit like deer whistles and channel that money into your pocket. (Probably the same folks that see "as seen on TV" and just have to have it.) You have deer, kill as many as you can and those ones won't run in front of your vehicle. Now for the OTHER 30 billion deer, all bets are off. |
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little story bout run-over deer- One night I came in from work and my aunt who lives down the road from me calls and says that on the way home she hit a deer. This happened about a mile down the county road that we live on. She said the deer appeared to have had at least 1 broken leg but it got off the road and into the edge of the woods. Damage to her car was headlight and grill broken. She said she had also called the game warden who lived a couple of roads away to let him know. Well I drive down to the area and there is the GW getting ready to poke around in the edge of the woods to see if the deer is there. It is dark and I get my flashlight and tell him I will help. We are 40 or so yards apart when I hear him shoot. He yells, I found it and went ahead and put it down. As I make my way over to where he is, I stumble across the "run-over" deer lying dead in the brush. GW had shot another deer.(apparently bedded down for the night) Upon inspection it appeared the deer he "put down" was perfectly healthy right up till that .357 bullet hit it. 
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Oh well... Gut em and get some ice... Good eatin 
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I used to work out in Ashburn VA and drove from Manassas every day via some nice winding back roads. They were fun to drive and had none of the traffic that the major roads suffered from at the time. Deer were a problem around the battlefield park but visibility was much better so they weren't a regular concern. I drive a beater Volvo 240 wagon and see little reason to visit a car wash when the rain will eventually take care of things. The car was quite dusty and dirty. It was well after dark and the back roads are not lit at all. Going around a wide sweeping curve that descends towards a creek I see a flash of movement to my left which I'm able to make out to be a deer. I hear a frantic clatter of hooves on the road as the deer, no doubt astonished to see a Volvo moving at 75+ mph, attempts to put on the brakes. Collision apparently avoided I continue on home without stopping. When I check over the side of the car I notice one thing immediately; parts of the car are no longer dusty and dirty. Starting about 6 inches from the bottom of the drivers door and continuing in an upwards arc towards the rear of the car is a clean streak the width of a deer's nose. I figure if I'd have been going any slower I'd have gotten more than just the skin of his nose that evening. |
Although I'm certain it's a waste of time, here's a few tests along with testimonials which tend to support my experience with these devices: www.deerwhistle.com/html/research_comments.html Where are yours? mike eta - forgot to mention that ya might also take a look at just how inexpensive these items are seeings as how your comments seem to indicate one would save a fortune by not buying them - (I seem to recall the original poster was whining about how much the damage would cost him?) |
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The last deer I hit was on the PA Turnpike. I drive a 1997 Ford Expedition and we were doing 65 - 70 MPH in the passing lane with a car to ur right and cars in front and behind us. It was also night! A nice sized buck jumped the center divider on the highway no more the 25-50-yards in front of the truck and I barely had time to hit the brakes. The deer smashed the bumper, radiator, hood, headlights, and the front left fender as we hit it at about 65 MPH! Damages to the truck were about $4000 as I recall! I am just real glad we were not in my wife's car at the time (A Saturn SL2) as it would have ended up in the front seet with us! |
It's coming right at us! A clear case of self defense, I'd say
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Not really. If you'd like, I can show a bunch more immaturity. In fact, you ain't seen nothing yet, assclown.
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It was 7-8 years ago and I still give him copious amounts of hell for it. He probably wishes he had shot me and let the deer live.
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You sure you're not selling these? One of the 3 "studies" you stated was consumer based (we give you something for free and you tell me it works), one a "Pay me to review your product" (no bias there, ) and one a pathetically inadequate "gov't funded study" containing interesting tidbits like "most deer-auto collisions go unreported" and "a few drivers have XXXX deer whistles on their cars, and the CHP also does, but the effectiveness statistics aren't available" and "The first is that no effective study has yet verified the effectiveness of deer whistles".OK, here are mine: advance.uconn.edu/2002/021118/02111812.htm University of Connecticut. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Georgia's Game and Fish Dept, Ohio State Police, University Of Wisconsin all say they don't work. How about "It has also been generally concluded that deer did not react to vehicle-mounted air-activated deer whistles, and that hearing the sound from these devices might be difficult when combined with typical vehicle roadway noise levels." coming from www.deercrash.com/Toolbox/index.htm Deercrash.com has a "Deer Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse" which covers just about all the forms of Deer/Vehicle interaction. www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99110.htm coming from a DOE offshoot website. www.kansashighwaypatrol.org/faqs/equipment.html#deer Maybe Kansas has something different to say....nope...don't work. www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1302G.pdf Iowa State University....nope. www.ces.purdue.edu/vanderburgh/horticulture/extnotes/2001/deerme.htm Perdue? Nope again. Study after study, paid and unpaid research, test upon test have shown them to be completely ineffective to mildly effective at best. One researcher found that on several vehicles was that they had never been driven since the whistles were installed, as well as several dozen vehicles had never had them installed citing the owners "didn't want to damage their vehicles". Won't find that info in your reports if you paid for them. Face it folks, if you like spending money on stuff, and like playing the odds (which is exactly what you're doing) go ahead spend your money. DO NOT spend your money thinking that these are the cure-all that they're advertised as. These are lottery playing odds were talking here. The only thing that your lack of deer strikes while using deer whistles show is that you haven't hit a deer yet. Deer are no more intelligent than cows and some commuters. You will hit a deer when they're good and ready to hit you. You want to avoid deer, don't drive in deer infested areas. Don't drive in those twilight times that deer are active. Drive defensively, at or below the posted speeds and with a higher level of alertness than your normal cellphone/latte/make-up/kidsinthebackseatmakingnoise driving mode. Oh, and get a hunting license, take your limit each year, and get your friends to do the same. For the most part the meat is better for you than the hormone laced, been dead for weeks/months crap you buy at your local wally world. |
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I got hit by one last month, my third. The fucking thing ran out of somebody's yard and hit my driver's-side door. $2000 worth of damage. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=542777 |
| I buddy of mine hit 3 deer in 4 months out in PA. The 2nd one was on his way home from the body shop where he picked up his car after getting fixed from the 1st one! LMAO. He said after the 3rd one he was so pissed the next time he seen a herd along the road he stopped and unloaded a mag at them. lol |
I beg to differ. I've never nailed one, yet, but have had several close calls over the last year. Mrs. NMSight got her first deer this last year . There are dead deer on almost every road around here - I don't think they died of heart attacks.........
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