I Did Something Today I've Never Done Before

[moose]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Glad it was a deer and not a moose or a rhino;)

someone call me?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by eskimo2
With deer, moose or other big critters on or near roads its best to brake hard, even after they get out of the way.  Don’t steer to avoid until collision is eminent, steer behind them whenever possible.  Don’t drive past them at over 20 mph.  Many of them behave as if they want to get hit and wait to jump into your path at the last second.  

The speed up idea sounds pretty stupid.  Not only is the potential energy greater, but deer often bound and vary in size; their CG AGL is not consistent.  More cars, and even trucks, today have sloping hoods.  There are too many variables to bet that a deer will fly over the cabin if hit at over 70 mph.  

eskimo

Actually I''ve heard the same thing. Not to brake or slow down.

The reason given is that especially with todays cars with sloped hoods when you brake hard it causes the nose of the car to drop and increases to potential of the critter comming over the hood and through your windsheild as opposed to you driving over him or blowing him out of the way .

[Nilsen]

Drive a Porche and go _under_ the deer while you stab it from below.

Its how the metrosexual hunts!

Or go to the closest military base and steal a couple of slabs of reactive armour of the more voletile type and mount it (the right way) on your grill. Poor deer

[Sp4de]

I hope your kids are proud that their daddy killed bambi!