Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Well, damn, my number came up this morning...I hit a deer with my truck

Picking up road kill is a mixed bag. You come upon the scene of a deer that got hit by a truck in the neck area, Merry Christmas! The neck and maybe the shoulders are trashed, all busted up and bloodshot, inedible, but the straps and hams are still good. The best meat on the deer is fine.

On the other hand, you get a deer that has been hit broadside by a truck, hams straps, and shoulders are all smashed up, ruined. You go to gut a deer like that, the guts are a horrible mess. This would make you want to give up on picking up road kill.

Many long years ago when I still lived in San Francisco I was taking what I called the back road down to San Bruno to pick up my girl friend. As usual the tule fog had set in and visibility was a skosh short. Some dude came roaring down the road passed me and I see brake lights. Well said dude just hit a deer. Looked like a broken neck on the deer so as the guy said he was all right, I stuffed the deer into the trunk of my 66 Mustang and gave the guy a lift into town to call a tow truck for his car. I picked up the girl friend, told her a slight change in plans and we went to my place where I hung the deer in the basement and proceeded to do a fast gut and skin job. That guy must have clipped the head just right as the neck was broken and other than the neck, the rest of the deer was just fine. Then I took the girl friend out for the promised dinner and a movie The rest of that evening turned out just fine.

Years later, the wife and I took a trip to Oregon to visit our daughter. Going up through northern California we saw over 100 dead deer lying by the side of the road. It was late enough in the year that if any of the deer were bucks, there should have been antlers. Not one deer had "horns". Guess that's the fruit of California policy of believing does and spikes are sacred cows, not to be hunted or shot. That was an awful lot of meat wasted lying there on the road.
Paul B.

Sheriff sent me a pic last week of a deer inside a car. Guts and feces everywhere. He said the first car launched it into the air and the following vehicle's windshield caught it full force. The second car is going to need a serious detail job.

Hey Skeen,

were you dressed in your deer hunting attire or long pants and boots?

Glad you and the pooch are OK.

Them deer can be down right expensive.

I had a ranch hand full replacement bumper and grill guard on my old truck. Hit a deer one morning driving to deer camp. Rolled the deer up and didn't scratch or dent my truck. Will buy one for my new truck when they become available. Son had a 3/4 ton dodge and he hit 3 deer in it and never had a mark on the truck.

I just got back from a trip from Branson MO to Plymouth MA and back close to 3500 miles, I did not take the same roads there and back. I must have seen 300 plus deer hit on the side of the road in my round trip it was quite disturbing. so much that my wife asked me to look out and tell her ahead of time, so she could close her eyes or atleast turn her head away. She could not handle all that carnage and was very upset and distraut on how they were just left there where ever they landed.

Wrong calibre, should have been using a GMC.

First time was a doe. I was doing about 65 or 70. Dead deer, messed up but drivable Olds Cutlass.
Second was a doe. Knocked her down, but she was able to get up and run off. A little hair in the grill. Ford pickup not hurt.
Third was a buck, Nice 7 point. Road kill casseroles!
There was a small dent in the trim on the hood where the left antler hit it. Only the left ribs and left shoulder were inedible. Chevy pickup unharmed.
Fourth, hit that big bi+@# at 45 mph on a dirt road. Watched three deer cross the road...BAM! ....there was a fourth in the ditch!
Dodge Ram drivable, but messed up about like your truck..... but ... my truck was a '95 and the insurance would touch it.

I’ve collected 4 over the last 22 years since I’ve moved back. Many close calls.

That sucks. sorry yer truck was damaged, but glad you and the pooch are ok.

Came across a Ford F150 sitting on the side of the road.
Bio schmear was evident a good fifty yards down the road behind the truck......along with bits and pieces of the truck and the left front wheel.
Immediately in front of the truck was what was left of as not a 250 pound hog!

Back in 2015, a woman was killed when she hit a hog in her shoebox car.