hoosierhunter Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 With my dang car that is. Grrrr someone else already hit her and she was laying in the road just over crest of the hill. Wouldn't you know I had a car on my rear end and beside me with nowhere to go. I get stopped and go back to remove her from the road and the woman behind me is mortified that I grabbed a still flopping deer and pulled it off the road. I thought she was gonna toss her cookies right there. I think I might have dodged a bullet as I'm not leaking fluid and it appears I only broke the air dam. No body damage that I can see yet. Not the type of hunting I was looking to do this weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
535hunter Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 First I'm glad your alright. Second not to much visible damage. Third you did the right thing. No reason to let someone else hit the animal. Unfortunately these things happen. That woman just doesn't understand. Maybe reflecting on it tonight it will make some sense to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Sounds like you got lucky. I've hit three in the last 5 years, killing 2 of them, the worst doing 4,800 in damages to my z71. They can get bad for sure during the rut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Glad there wasn't any damage to you, and little to the car. Sometimes you get lucky like that not writing the car off. I've had a few close calls but never actually hit one dead on. Closest was in my mom's old Corolla when I was about 17 years old, ran out at about the drivers door and just clipped the rear quarter/bumper area. Turned around and the deer was a bit stunned and caught in the fence on the side of the road, by the time I started walking down to help it, it got free and took off like a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 came close the other night.... lots of twisty, uphill and down hill roads around here. crested a hill and dropped down to find a small herd of half a dozen of them. couldn't stop in time so i got hard on the brakes to slow down but drifted over just enough to hug the guard rail and just barely clipped one. couldn't believe it didn't take off my mirror. they all seemed to be fine including my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 Good you are ok and minimal damage to your car. Good too you got the deer out of the road so noone else would potentially get hurt or have damage. I have hit one in all my years of driving. Best as I remember it did close to $4000 in damage to the front end of the blazer. Was dark and the deer jumped from a cornfield at the edge of the road, no time to even think about slowing down. I was probably going between 50 and 55 when I hit it and I have no clue where it went. Wife was behind someone last year who hit one in a car, person slowed down and then took off as the wife pulled up and off the side of the road to check to see if they were ok. Man who lived in the house where the deer was hit came down his driveway and the wife helped him drag the deer off the road. Watched a little buck earlier this year running in circles in a field just 15-20 yards off the side of the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 both my uncle and i had deer run right into the side of the car. mine for whatever reason didn't do any damage. i was moving but just rolling. my uncle had the whole door caved in and he was completely stopped just sitting there waiting for the deer to get out of the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Glad you were ok! That lady should be glad you stopped! I've had a few close calls but have not hit a deer yet but the roads I drive on are loaded.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrown Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 I'm glad your ok! Did you get the backstraps? lol I hear ya, I had a replacement front end put on my Z71. We had a nice buck hit out here, and the man behind the car that hit it had to cut it's throat to put it down, the lady behind him flipped out too! That was done after the gamewarden had given the instructions to do so, seeing how he wasn't in the area. I bet the cars behind you or coming up was thankful that you moved it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted December 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Killed my first deer Abrown I think the back straps are still under my car. I peeled her pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Yep...gotta start calling you Lucky Pat...cuz of the minor damage from that encounter. So far I've only hit one myself & just dented the fender after swirving to miss it. Had a lot of close calls too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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