Hit first deer ever in the 80 - kinda...

[IdahoDoug]

So I'm leaving my neighborhood in broad daylight, talking to a client on the phone with the driver's window down. I hear the sound of running, look to my left and there's a large doe running parallel to me on the other side of the road. It's a 25 zone and she's edging over and clearly trying to go in front of me when she suddenly turns sharply as I hit the brakes. I start screaming NO! NO! NO! at the top of my lungs as the ABS kicks in and I'm drifting into the gravel on my side watching the deer vector into my fender. At the last second, she grazes the bumper tip so lightly I don't feel it but see her hip jerk, and then she flashes across in front of me. Mission accomplished, apparently - and I have hit my first deer ever after numerous near misses. The closest one was ironically also in this 80 and involved a deer frantically running in broad daylight from the middle of a field and responding to some inner need to get across in front of me even though it took a lot of running to try to beat me. In that case, I was towing and floored it while my wife and I watched in disbelief for nearly 5 seconds as it was touch and go with his vector. What's with this weird need to do that, and it makes me wonder if that's what they always do at night and we simply don't see it until they suddenly flash out and get nailed??

Anyhow, my client got a kick out of me screaming and he could hear the brakes and a box in the cargo area slam the seat. The ironic part? I am days away from ordering a couple ARB bull bars........strange.

DougM

 

[Everlung]

When I lived in Iowa, I was unfortunate enough to be passenger in 5 or 6 deer collisions. I noticed the same thing as you did concerning their seemingly kamikazee need to race in front of your vehicle when there is no need or even a remote chance to make it. I'm guessing the weird doppler effect coming off the vehicle freaks em', and the awful depth perception they must have (eyes on opp. sides of their melons) makes objects much closer than they appear. The proverbial deer in headlights is easily understood, but these rascals that just pop outta nowhere (outta headlight range) hellbent for leather are really weird. Glad you're ok, and thanks for the post....got me all nostalgic.

 

[Brian Macgyver]

I hate to see a deer killed. They are really beautiful animals. It is a shame that the stupid ones run in front of cars. When is the BBQ?

 

[mot]

I am days away from ordering a couple ARB bull bars.........

Get those babies express mailed, and apply your 3M thingy on the windshield so it wouldn't get shattered or even crack upon impact.


Mot

 

[mot]

When is the BBQ?

Forget BBQ, where is the sushi party?

I ate my first ever wild bore meat, raw about a month ago. Not as bad as I thought!

Mot

 

[WES1977]

i've only hit one in a s-10 blazer. Going 70mph on the interstate at midnight. The deer crossed in front of the other lanes so all I saw was Head lights flicker then bam! The week before I got an estimate to paint my whole vehicle. After that I asked the guy for an estimate and he remembered me and told me he all ready did. I just told him to look again. It had to have a new grill, one headlight, turn signal, and a new door shell.

I would like to know how well the arb would work on deer at 70mph?

 

[Atticus]

Forget BBQ, where is the sushi party?

I ate my first ever wild bore meat, raw about a month ago. Not as bad as I thought!

Mot

Go to a doctor.

 

[notyourmomslx450]

Forget BBQ, where is the sushi party?

I ate my first ever wild bore meat, raw about a month ago. Not as bad as I thought!

Mot

No offense, but that's is disgusting. Don't get me wrong, I love sushi, but I've seen the sh!t (literally) that wild boars eat. The meat is terrible, unless you get one that's about 50 lbs or less (eat the baby!). I shot a 300 lb. black boar last year at my deer lease, and ended up leaving it for the coyotes. They are a nuisance animal on a farm, nothing more.

for your bravery to eat potentially tainted, unregulated meat.

 

[mot]

Go to a doctor.

No offense, but that's is disgusting. Don't get me wrong, I love sushi, but I've seen the sh!t (literally) that wild boars eat. The meat is terrible, unless you get one that's about 50 lbs or less (eat the baby!). I shot a 300 lb. black boar last year at my deer lease, and ended up leaving it for the coyotes. They are a nuisance animal on a farm, nothing more.

for your bravery to eat potentially tainted, unregulated meat.

Sissies!

It "might" have been deer meat that I ate raw, but I know I ate wild bore meat in a pot with other goodies in it, I swear!

 

[Atticus]

Seriously. Go to a doctor.

 

[LabRat11]

My post from another thread......

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showpost.php?p=739576&postcount=4

 

[fzj80kidpen]

Hehehehe,
Nice post Doug.
I have had many near misses but never have clocked on good.
Actually could hear the hooves as it leaped for it life last time.
Crazy animals.
As to you Mot - to funny but seriously, Boar is not sushi.
trich·i·no·sis - A disease caused by eating undercooked meat, usually pork, that contains trichinae, which develop as adults in the intestines and as larvae in the muscles, causing intestinal disorders, fever, nausea, muscular pain, and edema of the face. Unless you have iron stomach

 

[Everlung]

Food straight outta the restaurant or grocery is potentially just as dangerous as eating maggot ridden roadkill offa rte. 666. Anywho...ingesting contaminated meat is like a dose of penicillin or a flu shot. Always see a doctor immediately upon hallucination and/or foaming at the mouth. Bon appetite!!

 

[ParadiseCruiser]

Mot -

Even more troubling is the possibility of the larval stage of Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm): Infects the human nervous system, causing neurocysticercosis.

Then who are we going to get our JDM stuff from?

Cheers, R -

 

[cruiserdan]

Ron, yer such a medical geek.......

 

[flintknapper]

Mot -

Even more troubling is the possibility of the larval stage of Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm): Infects the human nervous system, causing neurocysticercosis.

Then who are we going to get our JDM stuff from?

Cheers, R -

Not only that, but pigs always "squeal on ya"!

 

[ParadiseCruiser]

M -

Didn't mean to frighten you. You'll probably get lucky and end up with only an intestinal tapeworm.

D -

Simplified version: Don't eat javelina.

Doug -

Back on topic... This area is filthy with deer. So bad this year, in fact, that it is not uncommon to have to shoo them out of the drive to get the truck out. Naturally, I installed an ARB from day one because there have been so many vehicles totaled from deer collisions. And naturally, over the years I've never hit one. Perhaps there is some karma at work here (for the Cruiser, not the deer...). They still get hit all of the time.

I'll report back after I earn my first deer silhouette (good one LabRat )

Cheers, R -

 

[mot]

BMH/Kidpen/EL/flint,

Thanks, I think...

Didn't mean to frighten you. You'll probably get lucky and end up with only an intestinal tapeworm.

Ron,

That might explain the discomfort I've feeling down there lately.



mot

 

[RavenTai]

I had a close call with one yesterday, crossed about 30' in front of me, fortunately he made it as I would not have been able to stop in time.

I have killed 2 of them with other vehicles, one in a caddy at about 60 head on destroyed the hood, grill, headlight, condenser and radiator, and one in my Silverado that T-boned me right in the drivers door, never saw that one coming

 

[TiredIronGRB]

Forget BBQ, where is the sushi party?

I ate my first ever wild bore meat, raw about a month ago. Not as bad as I thought!

Mot

Ever hear of Trichinosis???

Trichinellosis, also called trichinosis, is caused by eating raw or undercooked meat of animals infected with the larvae of a species of worm called Trichinella. Infection occurs commonly in certain wild carnivorous (meat-eating) animals but may also occur in domestic pigs.

You sir are probably full of worms