Oh Deer !

[Richard Cranium]

Could have been worse with a moose......

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Could have been worse with a moose......

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Man that Moosata hurt like hell. Not to mention having the moose balls right in your face.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Man that Moosata hurt like hell.

 

[3sloppydogs]

My buddy and were coming home from the shooting range one day in my 2010 challenger. We had a lot of arms with us.
Of course a darn deer jumped out in front of me. Luckily I was only going about 30 or slower when I hit him.
He spins around in the road and laid there. I was pissed and opened the trunk. First thing I grabbed was my 45-70 the deer heard me cycle a round in it woke up and took off.
1500 in damages and no deer

 

[Ron H]

THIS is scary stuff. I've had a couple deer hits, or deer hitting my car. Last one was really weird - I was stopped in traffic and a group of deer came running full out from nearby woods like they had no clue of the stopped cars...well chit one is running full sprint right at my driver's door and see that there's going to be a strike at my door. I leaned over far as I could away from the window and see its chest and front legs hit the door and glass (cold day lucky I had the window closed). Holy chit, it hits full bore then goes over the top of the car. I pulled over expecting it was laying in the ditch...nope gone...disappeared. There was chunks of fur imbedded around the door and top rail that was a bee-itch to remove. Just missed the mirror and one dent in the door. I've thought about crashes with deer coming through the windshield...guess it's a plus driving a pickup most of the time; but that day was in my company sedan and wonder though it the result would a been different in my truck.

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

OUCH, THAT HURT!! Nov 2016, had Callenger RT for 6 months: glad car has blunt nose & SOB didnt jump; A-pillar was twecked too: all fixed.

 

[Charles Cook]

OUCH, THAT HURT!! Nov 2016, had Callenger RT for 6 months: glad car has blunt nose & SOB didnt jump; A-pillar was twecked too: all fixed.

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Looks like he meet his Challenge

 

[Triplegreen500]

No photos from it, but in spring of 2018 I was on my way home from work. Dusk - still light enough not to need headlights to see, but dark was coming. I live in deer country and I know that means they're running.

Didn't help.

Head on a swivel, never saw the animal. It must have come up out of the ditch on the other side of the guard rail, off to my right.

Did I mention, I was on my motorcycle at the time?

I might have seen a glimpse of brown - my brain snapshotted one frame as my body left the seat and superman'd over the bars, and I saw a brown blur through my visor. I somersaulted in the air and landed feet-first on my back, and slid up the road about 325 feet, burning through the armor in my jacket's right shoulder, and the hip armor in my pants right hip. Ground a flat spot in the back of my helmet and ripped the sole off my right boot - I was trying to arch my back to get my shoulder and hip off the pavement as I slid. I stood up on the double yellow line, and got the hell out of the road. Called my own ambulance.

My bike slid about 600 feet up the road. The only thing that kept the front end from coming off completely (broke the frame tubes behind the steering neck) was the front tire hitting the engine.

I cut the deer in half.

My collector motorcycle was totaled. Still ran and rode...but the frame cracked in 3 places and bent in 1 (4 tubes held the steering head on). 1995 Buell S2, #1365 out of 1399 total production, autographed by Erik Buell for me in 2009.

I kept the engine in case I find another S2 to put it in - bumped compression, ported heads, hotter cams, tuned carb, it ran like a champ. And it was drop-dead gorgeous.

I fared much better - 2 spots of road rash, one cracked bone in my right foot (guess it caught the peg, or the handlebar, when I exited the vehicle), lifetime warranty on the riding gear (Klim stuff ROCKS), an excuse for new boots and a new helmet (which was a couple years out of date anyway).

Deer....

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

@Triplegreen500 DAMN MAN!! Glad you're alright considering, DEFINATELY could've been worse. Shame about bike, but THAT is secondary.

 

[3sloppydogs]

Didn't used to be that bad here but all mothers and tree huggers had to move in the country. Of course now its more of where they came from so you can't shoot deer anymore. All the hunting dried up. Nothing to check the population.
Or your killing Bambi and when they hit one all y ou hear is "someone needs to do something"

 

[Gone]

The deer in my NC county are all over the place. Literally, there is not a day that goes by that they're either in my backyard or seen on the shoulders of the roads. My dog doesn't even pay them any attention they're so numerous. Until I retired a few years back, for 7 years I drove 45 miles each way to work at Ft. Bragg. Had to be at work at 0700 so my morning dark or dawn-hour drive along two-lane country roads was prime time for deer beginning to move about to forage for the day. I never had an accident with one, thank God, but it was definitely a nervous commute for me to work each day! It's commonplace to see a dead one along the roads around here practically every other day.

 

[Ron H]

No need to say how fortunate you were despite your injuries and bike damages. A HS friend, some 25 years post HS, hit a deer on his bike one late night on a country road and it's believed he either lost consciousness or was too injured to get off the road. A car came along and ran him over and that was it.

My brother t-boned a car on his bike when a woman leaving a Mac's cut right out in front of him. He went over the car and slid some ways down the road. His helmet had a sizable gash, his leather jacket was slit up to the elbow on one arm. It was thought this happened when he struck the car antenna snapping it off with a nice sharp edge. His jeans were torn with the only injuries needing stitching was on a knee. What a testimonial to be outfitted to ride. I cringe when I see guys riding with no helmet, t-shirt, and sometimes wearing shorts and sandals...

 

[Budnicks]

most of that's avoidable, just watch for the shining eyes, they always look toward you, I lived 6 miles out of town and could count 4 to 5 hundred on the way during the winter, never hit one and I hauled *** a lot when I could , when I go into deer country I look ,you should see what elk and wild horses do

Or a Moose, like RC said...
I saw a shitload of roadkill Moose in Alaska

talk about having a bad day
it's often deadly for both driver & Moose

 

[Budnicks]

No photos from it, but in spring of 2018 I was on my way home from work. Dusk - still light enough not to need headlights to see, but dark was coming. I live in deer country and I know that means they're running.

Didn't help.

Head on a swivel, never saw the animal. It must have come up out of the ditch on the other side of the guard rail, off to my right.

Did I mention, I was on my motorcycle at the time?

I might have seen a glimpse of brown - my brain snapshotted one frame as my body left the seat and superman'd over the bars, and I saw a brown blur through my visor. I somersaulted in the air and landed feet-first on my back, and slid up the road about 325 feet, burning through the armor in my jacket's right shoulder, and the hip armor in my pants right hip. Ground a flat spot in the back of my helmet and ripped the sole off my right boot - I was trying to arch my back to get my shoulder and hip off the pavement as I slid. I stood up on the double yellow line, and got the hell out of the road. Called my own ambulance.

My bike slid about 600 feet up the road. The only thing that kept the front end from coming off completely (broke the frame tubes behind the steering neck) was the front tire hitting the engine.

I cut the deer in half.

My collector motorcycle was totaled. Still ran and rode...but the frame cracked in 3 places and bent in 1 (4 tubes held the steering head on). 1995 Buell S2, #1365 out of 1399 total production, autographed by Erik Buell for me in 2009.

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I kept the engine in case I find another S2 to put it in - bumped compression, ported heads, hotter cams, tuned carb, it ran like a champ. And it was drop-dead gorgeous.

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I fared much better - 2 spots of road rash, one cracked bone in my right foot (guess it caught the peg, or the handlebar, when I exited the vehicle), lifetime warranty on the riding gear (Klim stuff ROCKS), an excuse for new boots and a new helmet (which was a couple years out of date anyway).

Deer....
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I have a good friend that cut a big ol' 220+# mule deer buck in 1/2
going like 65-70 on a Ninja 900 (90's) back road Mt. roads
(he was probably going faster knowing Mike)
folded the front/forks of it back/under the engine
broke the frame, cracked the case & totaled the bike,
stripped the fairing off the front, he hit the back 1/2 of deer
sort of going like between the back legs & stomach/ribs
(IMO he'd been dead if he hit the front/rack 1st)
you could see the imprint of it (his fairing) on Mike's chest
thru his leathers & padding, nasty bruising everywhere...
Mike got a broken collarbone
but walked away, bloody mess everywhere...
He called me to help get the bike home...

I'm used to wildlife, hunting & ranching, it still made me queezy
looking at all the blood & guts...

he said sort of the same thing, as what you said
he all of a sudden
'saw a brown/tan blur', then was sitting on the side of the road
saying wtf happened

 

[1967coronet]

Deer hits and back up cameras make us a pretty fair income.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_quad4hoygb1sttdwc.mp4

TURN UP THE SOUND

https://ice01man.tumblr.com/

 

[wldgtx]

Damn! That looks awful, hopefully driver was okay. That Moose pic, holy sheet!

 

[moose1]

No photos from it, but in spring of 2018 I was on my way home from work. Dusk - still light enough not to need headlights to see, but dark was coming. I live in deer country and I know that means they're running.

Didn't help.

Head on a swivel, never saw the animal. It must have come up out of the ditch on the other side of the guard rail, off to my right.

Did I mention, I was on my motorcycle at the time?

I might have seen a glimpse of brown - my brain snapshotted one frame as my body left the seat and superman'd over the bars, and I saw a brown blur through my visor. I somersaulted in the air and landed feet-first on my back, and slid up the road about 325 feet, burning through the armor in my jacket's right shoulder, and the hip armor in my pants right hip. Ground a flat spot in the back of my helmet and ripped the sole off my right boot - I was trying to arch my back to get my shoulder and hip off the pavement as I slid. I stood up on the double yellow line, and got the hell out of the road. Called my own ambulance.

My bike slid about 600 feet up the road. The only thing that kept the front end from coming off completely (broke the frame tubes behind the steering neck) was the front tire hitting the engine.

I cut the deer in half.

My collector motorcycle was totaled. Still ran and rode...but the frame cracked in 3 places and bent in 1 (4 tubes held the steering head on). 1995 Buell S2, #1365 out of 1399 total production, autographed by Erik Buell for me in 2009.

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I kept the engine in case I find another S2 to put it in - bumped compression, ported heads, hotter cams, tuned carb, it ran like a champ. And it was drop-dead gorgeous.

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I fared much better - 2 spots of road rash, one cracked bone in my right foot (guess it caught the peg, or the handlebar, when I exited the vehicle), lifetime warranty on the riding gear (Klim stuff ROCKS), an excuse for new boots and a new helmet (which was a couple years out of date anyway).

Deer....
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We have deer whistles on all of our vehicles and haven't hit one yet. true story - riding through a wooded area in the U.S. on our Gold Wing motorcycle (forget which state), without warning, two deer come out of the woods right in front of me. They stopped in the ditch, looked right at me and turned around to go back in to the woods. You'll never convince me the whistles don't work!