Boy they do alot of Damage................

In your new Explorer that sucks. I hope it was a head shot so at least you got to keep the meat

It was very surprising the damage it did to the Honda Accord I owned a few years back. I hit a nice buck doing about 40. The deer had managed to go another 25 yards before lying down. Pretty hardy animals. Still alive in a ditch, the cops came & shot it. I had venison for months.

The front of my car was totaled, bumper hanging off, radiator smashed, hood destroyed, both fenders bent. I always drive extra slow through that stretch of road now.

See, it doesn't pay to pass on doe's.

Thats terrible,
I hope no plugs where in the truck..
I hit a deer once in a 65 ford econoline van the kind with the straight nose..totally f'd me radiator, lights, bumber, trims.
I was 19 yrs old living on my own..we picked it up an ate it..

I hit a deer once in a 65 ford econoline van the kind with the straight nose...

Blunt Nose

Oh brother:rotf2: you got a champion dog, you're the head buffalo at the shooting club , you're cookin squid,bunnies,ducks ,deer ,elephants, and zebras for tomorrow's game dinner and you hit a deer!!!!:shocked:

Was it a keeper?:btu:

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I'll take the backstraps :)

Hab's no only get cows He get bucks too!!!!!!!!!!!

was it a cow or a bull :tooth:

Going 2 or coming from cooking his brother.

Good luck at your game dinner this weekend.
Hope you raise a lot of money for charity.

Glad your ok,,,, guess there will be a special on brown plugs with browntails,,,,

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:laughs:

Oh man, at least you can keep a sense of humor about it John.

Glad you're okay.

-Dave

$400 :laughs:

hope your ok john cars are replaceable

deer season over ....i got one once at 40 mph...head shot... we 8 lt....

Did it have a tattoo on it's back? :shocked:

Did it have a tattoo on it's back? :shocked:

It does now in the form of "Ford"

Hope you're ok, Habs

On the way to the Gay Head Light, 50 yards past the deer crossing sign, a buck decided it was Rudolph and flew from the field to in front of my Jeep in about 2 seconds. It resulted in $1,800 damage and a deer that managed to get away without a trace.

John it was a good thing you weren't making a needlefish delivery or you could have stepped out of the car looking like a porcupine.

Hope it didn't screw up your back.

Mike

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John,

You should make some special tail hooks with it and feed them to the blues. Glad your ok.

hows it taste?

i hit a deer on 295 in greenville RI one night going to the beach fishing in November. I had a Dodge Power with 33" tires. I hit this buck at about 65MPH. It was like a grenade went off. Totalled the truck and broke off 8 points stuck right in the grill. Real scarey as I didn't know what the hell I hit till I saw the antlers stuck in the grill.

:hidin: tonight's special----deer on the grill

:hidin: tonight's special----deer on the grill


I am on my way :drool:

Kidding aside ,glad you are ok John

Hi Joe :wavey:

I hit a fox once going 75 80 mph on rt 16 in NH this thing exploded on impact and didn't even put a mark on the van I was driving

Coming around the bend from I95 onto Rt 4 one night, I had a raccoon running straight across my bows from left to right. Split second, managed to steer tighter into the corner, missed the raccoon......and walloped his mate. One almighty thump.

It took me ages to work out what the hell I hit, since I knew that I had missed the one that I had seen. I saw it on the road the next morning as I drove back up.

Not a scratch on the old Isuzu rodeo.

Hope that you're ok, Habs.

I've fixed many cars/trucks that have hit deer.
Makes a mess, especially if the deer goes over the hood and hits the windshield !
Nothing worst than glass splinters everywhere inside the vehicle!

John,

Its easier if ya just shoot em, buy hey this is America if you want to hit them with an Explorer more power to ya!!! :laughs:


Hope you're ok and it didnt f up your back any further.

On the way to the Gay Head Light, 50 yards past the deer crossing sign, a buck decided it was Rudolph and flew from the field to in front of my Jeep in about 2 seconds. It resulted in $1,800 damage and a deer that managed to get away without a trace.
Mike

That's what he gets for not crossing at the sign.

I never hit a deer before but I ran over a turtle once . we were both going slow !

My friend hit a deer,and they do cause alotta damage to the car.I read an article that said more people die by deers ,than any other animal,meaning they cause more deaths than by snakes,alligators and dogs etc. etc. so you got lucky the accident was'nt more serious.

Moose are worse

My cuz took a deer in the side of his HD. his better half watched it come out of a corn field jump and hit under his leg knocking him into the other lane. upright and dazed he stopped to figure out "what happened". never saw it coming with the helmet on. not to much damage to the bike and the deer got away.

One deer season my brother and a friend were going to pick up his car at a rural garage. Being deer season, of course they both had to keep a lookout for deer in the meadows on their respective sides of the road. And what do you think they ran into...

Joe Flip hit a deer pretty good 7-8 years ago doing 60 or 70 IIRC. His cooler rack took most of the impact but the deer still came up and hit the A pillar of his truck... Can be nasty...

Now in fall 2003 I had a deer hit my truck rim. N odamage to the truck but the cop still shot the deer.

ouch....glad ur okay Habs....

Deer suck. Got my s-10, 1 week later smashed a massive buck 300 yards from my apartment, $2000 damage. Almost 1 year to the day about 100 yards from my new house , hit another deer . It hit the same exact area on my truck that i had dropped 2k getting fixed the year before #@%& !!!!!! :scream2:

Anyone get that Geico commercial jingle in their head reading the title this of this thread?

Burt Bakarak:

"Habs was hit, by a deer"

"The Lizard licks his eyeball"

ok - might need some cofee here

A small kangaroo truck one day old

Cheer's

wafarmer

I hit a deer a few years back in my Ford Ranger. I actually saw the herd crossing the road and slowed down as I approached. When it seemed like they were past I let up on the brake and no sooner hit the gas then it was like a flash going off plus the "bang" and those huge eyes. Driveable, but the grill and headlights were basically gone. To this day I can't drive that stretch of road without slowing down and anticipating it happening again.
It's fortunate for the most part people were ok and it was the expense of the accident that hurt most of all. I worry constantly about my 17 year old and her friends who drive. No matter how I caution them to be observant, especially at night, I know they drive too fast and don't pay as close attention as they should. I keep my fingers crossed they don't experience something like that at least untile they have a few more years of driving under their belts.

being in the rental car business you see alot. We had a 85 year old lady rent a Buick Century one day, hits a deer, deer comes through the windshield, she ducks and it ends up in the back seat, head rests bent backwards. At that point the thing is not dead and goes crazy kicking out every remaining window in the car just like the movie Tommy boy. There was so much deer hair in the car it looked like someone shaved it. Lady had to clean her depends after that one.

i never hit a deer or anything that big. but i did hit a turkey on RT.2 going a little to fast in one of works trucks, never even saw the thing. all i saw was feathers. the guy i work with in the truck behind he was still laughing when we got ot the job.