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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wanker on November 11, 2003, 07:47:41 AM
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with my car.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :(
Was on the way home from orchestra rehearsal on the freeway, in the fog. Was just thinking "It's deer hunting season, better keep an eye out."
About 5 mins later, here she comes, a nice looking, dumb as a rock doe, weighing in at about 200-250 pounds...loping across the road right out of the fog. I stood on the 4-wheel discs brakes of my 99' A4, but I ended up smacking into the poor thing on my right front side.
Took out the right front headlight assembly(but didn't affect the fog lamp, thankfully), and bashed in the right front quarter panel and hood about 9 inches. Luckily, didn't seem to get anything mechanical, so I was able to drive it home.
The deer was last seen flying about 100 ft in the air and I'm sure tumbled off into the ditch somewhere.
*sigh*
!%#fek!@%R#!?!*^#$!!!!!?!!double-fek!!&#!@%$@&!!!
:mad:
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That sucks man. Glad you are okay...and I hope the deer was killed outright and didn't suffer too much.
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Sorry to hear that banana :( But hey, its an Audi, they're like disposible lighters! :p :p :p :p
Did you call the Game dept.? They'll usually come out and pick the animal up. They used to use them for the soup kitchens, etc. (Have them butchered up, etc.)
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You didnt make sure the poor thing was dead? I hit a coyote once with my car, fudged up the transmission. Didnt kill him so I had to do it, then his ungrateful buddys ate him.
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Did you throw the deer in the trunk? Go back and get it! If it was cold out the meat will still be good. Road kill venison!!
Sorry to hear that banana! I've been lucky so far!
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Originally posted by Swager
Did you throw the deer in the trunk? Go back and get it! If it was cold out the meat will still be good. Road kill venison!!
Sorry to hear that banana! I've been lucky so far!
But the area in which it was hit is no good, bruised vension meat tastes worst than Antelope. Also, you got to gut it/bleed it, right away or the meat is spoiled. I keep a BFK in my truck for just such occasions (Did a road-side-gutting in 1982, haven't hit a deer since)
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You didnt make sure the poor thing was dead?
Well, it was dark, foggy as hell, and I was on the an interstate freeway (I-90), and I wasn't about to risk my life getting out to see if the deer was ok. Not that I could've found her anyway. And even if I did, being a bleeding heart liberal, I had no gun with which to end her suffering. What did you want me to do, strangle her to death? Or maybe use harsh language on her? I could've probably done that. I was swearing my head off all the way home.
I suppose if Lazs had been with me I could've pulled over so he could pump a few rounds into her, but since he lives about 2,000 miles away.....
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lol
oops was assuming most deer strikes occur on lonely forested roads. hit on a freeway, deer deserves a deer darwin. You mean you bleeding heart liberals dont have a BFK under the seat or a B-Ball bat in the trunk, or tire iron(also useful to have under the seat. Or even one of those weighted kleenex holders?( my drivers ed teacher told us those things were deadly.)
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Originally posted by banana
Well, it was dark, foggy as hell, and I was on the an interstate freeway (I-90), and I wasn't about to risk my life getting out to see if the deer was ok. Not that I could've found her anyway. And even if I did, being a bleeding heart liberal, I had no gun with which to end her suffering. What did you want me to do, strangle her to death? Or maybe use harsh language on her? I could've probably done that. I was swearing my head off all the way home.
I suppose if Lazs had been with me I could've pulled over so he could pump a few rounds into her, but since he lives about 2,000 miles away.....
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LOL!
When I was 10, someone had hit a deer on the road out in front of our house. My dad wasn't home, but my Mom was. She knew what to do (She also hunts) and brought a sharp knife with her down to the road. The deer was pregnant so instead of immediately bleeding/gutting the deer, she attemtped to save the unborn fawns life. Unfortunately, the fawn was too premature. She didn't gut the fawn, but gutted the Doe and we called the DNR. They came out and picked it up and thanked her for trying to save the fawns life (Shrugs). I was pretty grossed out, never seen someone gut a deer before...
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I'd rather hit a deer than be hit by a deer. My wife was parked a stop light about four years ago when a deer charged out of the woods at a frantic pace and tried to jump over the roof of the car.
It didn't make the jump, but it did leave a nice dent in the rear driver's-side door right before breaking its neck. Definitely Darwin at work on this one.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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Originally posted by banana
with my car.
Took out the right front headlight assembly(but didn't affect the fog lamp, thankfully), and bashed in the right front quarter panel and hood about 9 inches. Luckily, didn't seem to get anything mechanical, so I was able to drive it home.
:mad:
Oh man! that's an expensive deer! Ouch!
But congrats on the kill!
Bambi KILLER! :aok
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Could have been worse! ;)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Deer1.bmp)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Deer2.bmp)
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THAT pic, is F^&*ING hilarious. I can hear the judges now: "I give that deer a 9.6 for Artistic Impression, wait, it stuck the landing"
Of course, my man standing by the Durango isn't thinking that.
Karaya
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IIRC the pic is from Minnesota also, so that could have been banana.
Sorry about the car banana, I was trying to thin them out a wee bit this past weekend, but they are just multiplying too quickly. Went from seeing 10 deer the whole season a couple of years ago to seeing 30+ a night now.
Rip: gutting / bleeding is so cool to 5 year old boys. My son didn't talk about anything else last year after I was fortunate enough to harvest a deer while he was hunting with me. He was so proud to be able to help daddy with that. Now if he had only been a little bigger so he could have drug it out of the woods.
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You know, now that I think about it, I had my trumpet along with me. I could've gotten out and blew "taps" for it at least.
How am I ever going to explain this at my weekly PETA association meeting?
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A couple of years ago, one of Pharmacia's biz jets was landing
at Morristown NJ when a deer came out and rammed the Citation
right in the passenger door!
The door was so badly dented that the passengers and crew
had to deplane from the emergency exit over the wing. I asked
the crew if they noticed whether the deer was wearing a white
headband with a red dot on it or not :D
Rino
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Originally posted by dfl8rms
IIRC the pic is from Minnesota also, so that could have been banana.
Sorry about the car banana, I was trying to thin them out a wee bit this past weekend, but they are just multiplying too quickly. Went from seeing 10 deer the whole season a couple of years ago to seeing 30+ a night now.
Rip: gutting / bleeding is so cool to 5 year old boys. My son didn't talk about anything else last year after I was fortunate enough to harvest a deer while he was hunting with me. He was so proud to be able to help daddy with that. Now if he had only been a little bigger so he could have drug it out of the woods.
Haven't taken mine hunting yet here but this year he is going. We finish up bow/blackpowder season this week and start the full fledged redneck thing of all other fire arms. I was fortunate to live about 50 feet away from the edge of the woods where I hunted all through high school and my first two years of college. From the time I was 8 (first time I got to hunt with a gun) through 20 I probably killed 40-50 deer around the house in Central Alabama. This year I will probably get 5-6 weekends of hunting.
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ooh quick, somebody post the pics of the deer that tangled with the king air.:eek:
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I hit a deer about 10 years ago with a Dodge Ram 2500 pickup truck. I was going about 100 kph and it bolted out from the side of the road and hit the left front side of the truck.
It spun around into the wheel well and then careened off into the ditch. The truck needed a new bumper and lights on that side and the left fender needed to be fixed but other than that there was no real damage. The airbags did not deploy nor did my passenger wake up.
I saw another deer strike about 2 years later in the US. I was driveing along the I-40 through a construction zone that had those concrete barriers up. The deer was in the medium and up ahead. We were doing about 50 mph and there was a tractor trailer up ahead of me. The deer jumped over the concrete barrier right in front of the truck and was thrown back into the barrier. I passed it as it was still tumbleing along the side of the road but luckly missed it. Shook me up.
Shortly later I passed the truck. The driver was talking on a cell phone (probably calling his boss) but there was no visible damage to the truck.
Considering both deer weighed about 100 lbs at least it is a amazing that greater damage was not done. I am lucky I was not driving a Honda or some other light car at the time.
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By the way banana. A deer strike is covered under the comprehensive section of your auto insurance and will not affect your rates. :)
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you should check out a set of the 'deer chasers'. a pair of small whistles that hook to your bumper. when you are going over 30 or so they put out a high frequency sound (like a dog whistle I guess). they do work. if you drive past deer often you can see the change as soon as you put these on. they will get agitated and start moving away from the road about 150 yd. ahead of you.
they get dirty and stop working after a couple weeks but you just pull them off and run them through the dishwasher. they have a 'dove-tail' mount that glues down with an adhesive pad, to take them off you just slide them out of the mount.
well worth the $12.
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wonder if you can modify them so those deer chaser sound like a stuka, thatd rock. Scare hell outta those coddam geo metros.
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Originally posted by Habu
By the way banana. A deer strike is covered under the comprehensive section of your auto insurance and will not affect your rates. :)
cc, that. Already got the estimate: $3884.03
My part of that is a $100 deductible. :)
But it's gonna take 2 weeks in the shop to fix! :(
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
you should check out a set of the 'deer chasers'. a pair of small whistles that hook to your bumper. when you are going over 30 or so they put out a high frequency sound (like a dog whistle I guess). they do work. if you drive past deer often you can see the change as soon as you put these on. they will get agitated and start moving away from the road about 150 yd. ahead of you.
they get dirty and stop working after a couple weeks but you just pull them off and run them through the dishwasher. they have a 'dove-tail' mount that glues down with an adhesive pad, to take them off you just slide them out of the mount.
well worth the $12.
:rofl LOL! For just $10 I'll cast a spell over your car to scare off deer whenever you drive in their vicinity. I have a similar spell for Skunks, but that one will cost ya $20.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Could have been worse! ;)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Deer1.bmp)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Deer2.bmp)
RAM TOUGH LOL:aok
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Originally posted by Heretik
ooh quick, somebody post the pics of the deer that tangled with the king air.:eek:
Strange thing about Kingairs, the Army used to have a pair
of U-21s at MMU. They
managed to take out a deer with one engine almost every
year. Maybe we should put some of those whistles on em:aok
Rino
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I have hit 3 in the past 5 years. No fun. Glad your ok banana! :)
Never skinned one, but would in a heart beat if I knew how. Been hunting small game all my life, but never have done any dear hunting. Would love to try it sometime with something other than my old pickup. :)
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Whenever I hit a deer on the highway, I tie a rope from the deers tail to the trailer-hitch of my truck. By the time I get home, the deer is already blooded/gutted/skinned. Get some strange looks from other drivers though.
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Damn, I bet that's nice and tender by the time ya get home too!
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
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LOL!
When I was 10, someone had hit a deer on the road out in front of our house. My dad wasn't home, but my Mom was. She knew what to do (She also hunts) and brought a sharp knife with her down to the road. The deer was pregnant so instead of immediately bleeding/gutting the deer, she attemtped to save the unborn fawns life. Unfortunately, the fawn was too premature. She didn't gut the fawn, but gutted the Doe and we called the DNR. They came out and picked it up and thanked her for trying to save the fawns life (Shrugs). I was pretty grossed out, never seen someone gut a deer before...
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"Did banana get that nice doe with his 30 ought 6?"
"Nah, he got it with his .455."
Les:)
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http://www.bowzone.ca/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1489
Need I say more?
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hey banana, i didnt realize you lived in MN... i was just out there a couple weeks ago
on the way back from minneapolis i was talking to a friend on my cell passing the time and suddenly outta the darkness the body of a previously hit deer came outta nowhere. i had seen a few on the way out there that had been hit by semis, and usually it was a mess of blood and guts and body parts strewn across the highway. never saw anything like it out here in ma, thats for certain.. so anyway, its too late for me to avoid this deer body, so at 90mph i hit it square on
figured my car would be done for... but she kept on drivin ok, no loss of coolant (radiator strike) or oil pressure drop (oil cooler is right down there with the rad) so i figured i'd just have to deal with a cracked up front end... well, after stopping, the only damage i saw was blood ALL over the front lower fascia.
muchos gross. woulda taken pics but it rained the next morning before i could get em.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Could have been worse! ;)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Deer1.bmp)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/Deer2.bmp)
What did they do? Drop that thing from 20K?
Sorry to hear that banana. I've been lucky, grew up in Illinois and never hit one. Have come close here in Washington as well, the damned things just jump through neighborhoods out here. They never would have done that back home.
If I hit one it will be with that T-bird. Stupid car is so low to the ground I bet it would come right into the car. Not a good thing to happen.
Rip, hitting deer with trucks seems to be the only way my father in law can get a deer lately. You are right though, he would have needed to bleed the deer right away.
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I had a strange one once.
Was driving East on one of those 2 lane highways in Central Ca. near Morro Bay (41). At the time I owned a 1975 Honda CVCC. They don't make 'em much smaller.
It handled pretty well though, so I was rounding a curve at about 60mph at 2:00am when in the middle of the road in front of me appear 5 deer. I had nowhere to go but straight ahead.
Two of them went left, 2 went right... one decided to commit suicide by Honda.
I don't know why, but I didn't brake. That probably saved me. That Honda went right over the top of that deer. There was No damage at all to the car. Except for the smell of blood. The front end and under belly were covered in it.
ewwwwww.
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The real truth about bananas priceless deer hunt.....
:D