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I hit my first (and last) freight train broadside in 1977. It never felt a thing.

1976 Chev police car was fixable - no injuries to me

Never have hit a deer or a train . . . yet, anyhow . . . I ain't complaining at all. I have seen the aftermath of both and it ain't pretty.

Coyote smoothie.

Lmao!

I've jumped my boat off bigger boat's wakes.
I've jumped my boat off logs.
I've jumped my boat off rocks.

But I've never jumped my boat off a coyote smoothie!

2 ft of air.
I'm still laughing about this and have to ask, how much hang time did ya get?

tff.

I've hit three. The first two ran into me. The road was not wide enough to get away from them. The last one slipped in the road in front of me and I ran over it. Had it kept it's footing, it would have gotten past me as I rapidly slowed down. That one did the most damage.

My experiences tell me there is a tremendous suicide problem in the deer community.

My daughter said they are deer jihadist.

Trying to take me out so I can't shoot them anymore.

It was one of those moments where everything was going in slow motion. Hitting the coyote with the Jeep was no biggie, but when I felt the bump from the boat and looked in the rear view to see the front of the boat rising up everything just slowed down... I was waiting for that moment when it would pop off the hitch and I'd be doing 75 pulling the boat down the interstate by it's chains. Laughed about it the next day, but wasn't that night..

Oh, God.
Muslim deer... on suicide missions.

That's all this country needs.
Probably refugees emigrating from Deerborne MI.

You read my mind.
lol

Hang time...
Slow motion!

Too funny.
I almost typed "slow motion" earlier in this thread, couple of times.


The image of that yotie looking over his shoulder as he disappeared is frozen and emblazoned in my memory.

Timeless.
And hilarious!

After living almost 20 years in big elk country, I've almost forgotten about the earlier deer smacks. Some of those did a bit of damage here and there over the years - most involved deer running into the side of the vehicle.

However, having a crash with an elk - particlarly a mature bull - can be serious stuff. The local tow service drags a lot of elk-ruined vehicles onto their lot and many of those hulks look scary. We have learned to slow w-a-y down when driving in this country at night and I normally ride the center line, as possible, to get a better view of both road shoulders.

I just missed the same bull elk that tex in cal missed on the way to Quemado last year - and can vouch for the "monster" part! We figured I was only a minute or so ahead of him.
I DO have a steer, a deer, and a horse under my belt, though.
(the horse lived - the others didn't). I've come so close to hitting elk that on the first occasion, you couldn't have fit a pack of cigarettes between her butt and my grill guard. The second time, we missed by about 3 feet. Missed that big bull by about 5 feet - man I'm glad he didn't jump into the headlights!

few years ago i was coming out of meeker, colorado at night in a blizzard, couldn't see hardly in front of me, and a herd crossed the road. I nailed a doe with my 3/4ton dodge diesel. It did kill her. I stopped to pull it off the road and inspect damage. Another guy said i had to report it so i drove back into meeker to get the popo, who turned out to be a lady. We went back and she said, yep, you killed it, it's yours if you want it. She turns the flashers on, we pull the deer back on the road, she puts rubber gloves on, and helps me gut it. I fell in love. Cept i was married, she owned guns, and had a boyfriend. Over my desk right now i have framed a certificate that says roadkill wildlife possession, signed by her.
So, couple of days later i am sneaking into arizona at night with one headlight and damaged grill, dead deer in the back, and crossing the injun navajo rez at about 80 i get lite up by the resident highway patrol. I told him why and what i was doing, and he felt sorry enough, no ticket.
That 35pounds of processed deer cost me about 3500 in damages. Who says hunting is cheap.

I've hit probably 4 or 5 deer with my 4 Runner alone...

several were just small ones, that just pretty much got run over...

two were hit at about 55 to 60 mph that darted out of brush so fast, it wasn't even worth hitting the brakes...

I have a 31 x 10.50 spare time mounted on the front...
I just centered the impact to be on that and took my foot off the gas pedal...

That thing takes quite a wallop and doesn't really hurt anything but the deer... the tire is mounted onto a Brush Guard...

sure I might of had deer burger down both sides of the truck, plus on the hood and windshield.... but that washes off...

Funny, I've missed a couple in the Pilot just this past month... one going out to Burns, bailed out of a ditch and hit me in the drivers door, which didn't seem to hurt anything on the Pilot...I was only doing about 50 mph, and that was at night.. out on isolated US 395 NO of Lakeview..
where I passed a total of 3 cars in a 110 miles...

I could(if I tried to do a tally)could add up the deer, and to date only one antelope, but the moose was most memorable! Did a lot of damage to my girlfriends (she still married me) '88 Honda Accord.On our way back to Kemmerer,Wy. after spending a Feb. day in Jackson Hole. Along cold ride from Bondurant,missing the drivers side window and pretty much sitting on the console trying to see out of a very broken windshield! memtb

During the 2 years I was employed for a vending company, coming down the mountain around 5 AM, I clipped 4 or 5. Not hard enough to do any damage, just had snacks and soda cans all over the stinkin' place from slamming on the brakes.

Got broadsided by one in my old dodge van....Saw 2 coming over the hedges out of someone's front yard, hit the brakes, stopped and them boom...The third one put a pretty good dent in front of the rear wheel well.

The best one though was about 7 or 8 years ago, taking a coworker home. Country road...Woods and a bit of a bank on the left, a field on the right. 2 deer came off the bank and crossed the road about a hundred yards ahead of me...I slowed down a bit....All clear...Got back on the gas...up to about 45 or so. Zach said something to me and I glanced at him...At that instant, There was one heck of a bang, the passenger side of my windshield disintegrated and Zach basically dove onto my lap.

A third deer came off the bank, hit the road and went to leap across....I caught its rear legs with the fiberglass piece around the headlight on my '79 Nova. That deer flipped over the hood, the front half came through the windshield and blew out the passenger side door window...The rear hooves left rather clear deer prints on my roof and caved in the front of the roof at the top of the windshield about 2 inches.

I slammed on the brakes, causing the deer to slide the rest of the way through the windshield, and land half on the front seat and half on the floor.

It was a dang good thing Zach was looking at me because he saw the deer coming off the bank on my side....I didn't...and was able to dive out of the way.

Well, stopped the car...we both got out the driver's side...I walked around and reached through the hole where the right front door window used to be and grabbed the critters neck...It was deceased. Good enough. Open trunk...open passenger front door and transfer rather tasty and pre-tenderized venison from seat to trunk.

The fiberglass headlight bezel, windshield and door glass cost a total of 75 bucks at the junkyard. Took a bit to clean the blood and glass out of the interior but all was good in the long run. The deer was the only casualty.

The only one I've bagged with a car, so far, was coming back from an unsuccessful deer hunt.

Hit a few where I didn't do any damage. I remember one my dad hit when I was a runt and the officer had to put it down right there on the side of 41.

I do remember one I hit - a yearling. I was doing just under 100 on a Ski-Doo Mach III. Poor bugger stepped out and I never even got my hands to the brakes and it was all over me.

Hood destroyed, blood all over my helmet/back and sled.

Ran the rest of the day, come back through and there was nothing but a big pink spot on the trail and that was it.

My first was heading to work one morning at about 5 am on a highway. My buddy texted me and I look done at the phone in center console briefly. Looked up and a deer was standing about 6 feet in front of the hood. At 85 mph in a VW golf it was ugly ,but continued on to work. At a bodyshop. When I had stopped to assess the damage, a guy that was following me stopped and Said " Holy&*%&^&^* " He was more shaken then I and he had blood guts and deer remands all over the front of his car........ he must have been following to close.

Hit a very pregnant doe once with the L9000

All of 30 minutes after I put a new Texas bumper on it.