Deer Damage...

Driving to work last night i came across a beautiful 8 pt buck.

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This is what the truck looked like.

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I am fine...just a little shaken up...

I guess the moral of the story is to be careful for the beasts...

Take care...

...so you got a deer with yer automatic....?

Just had my vehicle totalled last week. OK, so it didn't take much to total it. Your's looks a little worse than mine did.

Glad you didn't get hurt. I always worry about those buggers coming through the windshield.

Pictures aren't working for me...

Glad you are ok...

I was talking to my friend this morning. he has one just like yours but white.

Did you get any of that $100. pound meat? How about a picture of that dude with his head up. Looks like the rack is sort of unique. Gotta think of a good story, sell that rack on ebay to cover the deductable. lol

I have always said the best caliber for deer hunting is half ton! Glad you're okay. The truck can be fixed.
Good Luck and God Bless.

About 10 years ago, just a few days before Christmas, I went to the funeral of a 22 year old young man where the deer did come through the windshield. Actually an oncoming car hit the deer and propelled it into the windshield of this young mans van.

And MO. for 2009 is making it harder to get Landowner permits and also raising the price of all hunting permits. Go figure. And they wonder why there are 125,000 less deer hunters than at its peak.


Gene

Looks like you gutted him. Gonna eat him just for spite? I hope so.

No. my brother and some of his friends are hunters and they think the meat is bruised

> sell that rack on ebay to cover the deductable

My wife's uncle is a state trooper. They have instructions to immediately cut the antlers off any roadkill bucks. He said he gets people confronting him about it all the time about it, thinking he's just taking them for himself. Also, they also won't let you take the deer even if you hit it during season. When the deer is killed on the road it immediately becomes property of the state.

The rack is cracked off of the skull... the antlers are loose. my brother cut them off and is gonna mount them... i was mad that my truck was damaged... I"m not a hunter so i had no interest in the deer

Haha.. Ya, i guess i did. I never thought of it that way. lol

my brother already has him gutted... sorry

White? State Trooper? Brother in law? Or Buck?

Looks like you got "RAMmed" when you should've "DODGEd."

On a serious note, I had a deer collision with an '88 Jeep Comanche I used to own. I bought a parts truck and started repairs, but I was so disillusioned I sold the truck to my son, who got his buddies to help him finish the repairs. Couple of months later, my son had a collision with a deer in the same truck. He decided the truck must be a "deer magnet" and hasn't gotten around to fixing it again.

I hit a bull elk one night up in the Idaho Panhandle, I rolled him right over the car. The one antler cracked the windshield, creased the top on drivers side. His body pushed the passenger side mirror through the passenger window. I stopped and got my knife out to slit his throat, but that bump didn't seem to phase him, he was long gone by the time I got out of the car.

If you'd hit him with an older pickup, he might've come thru the windshield (usually a hoof) and gone over the top...
The newer vehicles are built to collapse upon impact, the crumpling absorbing some of the impact shock.
In NM and AZ, they used to be able to very closely estimate your impact speed by whether the deer was in the road in front of you somewhere, on the hood or over the top. Don't know if they still can with the crumple fronts or not.

Sorry truck same model same damage

Sorry for all the damage, glad you"re ok.

Yeah I can understand that. I'll try to kill a doe for you.

In about 1965, my Dad hit a 10 point buck with our VW Bug. He was coming home from work late at night in the Summer and was probably going about 60. The buck hit the driver's side front fender and front hood and then bounced over the top of the car, leaving 2 long dents in the top. When he got stopped my Dad couldn't see where the buck had gone in the dark.

Dad was only about half a mile from home, so he continued the rest of the way. The fender was rubbing on the tire pretty bad and it was very hard to turn into the driveway.

The next morning we checked out the damage. He and I were able to pull the fender and bumper out with a jack enough to make it drivable again. The hood initially would not open, but finally we pried on it enough to get it to pop open. With some hammering, it would operate again. The doors were another matter. The impact had tweaked the body enough so both doors would no longer fully close and the famous Volkswagen seal no longer worked. But after a wheel alignment and reaiming the headlight, our family drove the beat up VW for about another year and a half. It looked bad, but the accident didn't seem to change the way it ran and drove. A little draftier though.

My brother and I found the buck a few days later the hard way--by smell. It was pretty ripe by then in the hot Summer weather. We just left it there, for the coyotes and magpies to clean up. The huge buck had 2 badly broken legs and somehow made it almost a quarter of a mile from the impact point.

After the dead buck was pretty well cleaned up by the scavengers and it quit smelling so awful bad, I collected the skull and antlers. They hung on the barn for years and I still have the antlers in my shop. 10 full points. Not too good for the VW though. But thankfully, my Dad didn't get hurt. Lots of memories...I hate deer!

....I"m surprised your brother got him, normally the nosey neighbours and passers by, get them.
Hound

Haha. ya. but it was dark so noone could see it. the officer asked about the deer and i told him i was gonna take care of it. however, noone stopped to ask if i needed anything... o well. a neighbour guy did come out