Really bad start

[ckwilli]

Well I’m writing this as I sit in the blind for MO firearms season. I hit a deer and totaled my car on the way to the farm this morning. Not really how I wanted to start the season. No one was hurt and the Hawken is ready to eat.

 

[ETipp]

Well I’m writing this as I sit in the blind for MO firearms season. I hit a deer and totaled my car on the way to the farm this morning. Not really how I wanted to start the season. No one was hurt and the Hawken is ready to eat.

Sorry about the wreck. Now it’s pay back time.

 

[ckwilli]

Sorry about the wreck. Now it’s pay back time.

My son just notched his tag with a pretty good eight point

 

[Mad Professor]

Roadkill cafe?

 

[ckwilli]

Roadkill cafe?

We couldn’t find it. It’s a very busy highway and I didn’t want to linger on the side of the road too long. I was running 70 mph so I don’t know how much would have been good anyway.

 

[ckwilli]

 

[longcruise]

Lucky it didn't come through the windshield!! It happens a lot with elk.

 

[springfield art]

Holy Un-mentionable!

 

[akroguy]

Roadkill cafe?

Rudy's Road kill cafe': You kill'em we grill'em!

 

[RiverRat]

I’m glad that you and your son are okay! Did the air bags deploy?

 

[akroguy]

My son bought a small mountain home a couple years ago. He likes to ride motorcycles, as do I. One dark morning on the way to work, he rounded a corner and a deer ran right across the road in front of him. He was able to brake in time but that startled him so much he gave up riding road bikes. I've experienced a flatbed trailer tire blowout next to me on the freeway once but no encounters with critters. Yet.

Glad it's just the car that got mashed and not you.

 

[TFoley]

That's a total? Wow. Glad you're OK.

Here in UK that would probably be reparable.

 

[Patocazador]

My son bought a small mountain home a couple years ago. He likes to ride motorcycles, as do I. One dark morning on the way to work, he rounded a corner and a deer ran right across the road in front of him. He was able to brake in time but that startled him so much he gave up riding road bikes. I

Both of my younger brothers have had bad accidents because of deer ... and their recklessness.
One left a high school party at 9:00 pm and bundled up because it was 14 deg. He took a back road as a shortcut and hit a 170 lb. buck @ 80 mph. He slid for 150 yards, tore through both his coats and had a hole worn through his helmet from the asphalt. However, he survived and only spent 3 days in the hospital.
The other one was riding a dirt bike through the woods on a snowmobile trail, a deer jumped out, he swerved and hit a tree. Both arms broken, one wrist and an ankle. Pins and bolts and rods later, they discharged him after 3 weeks.
Motorcycles and deer don't mix!

 

[ckwilli]

I’m glad that you and your son are okay! Did the air bags deploy?

Thankfully it did not

 

[ckwilli]

Both of my younger brothers have had bad accidents because of deer ... and their recklessness.
One left a high school party at 9:00 pm and bundled up because it was 14 deg. He took a back road as a shortcut and hit a 170 lb. buck @ 80 mph. He slid for 150 yards, tore through both his coats and had a hole worn through his helmet from the asphalt. However, he survived and only spent 3 days in the hospital.
The other one was riding a dirt bike through the woods on a snowmobile trail, a deer jumped out, he swerved and hit a tree. Both arms broken, one wrist and an ankle. Pins and bolts and rods later, they discharged him after 3 weeks.
Motorcycles and deer don't mix!

I’ve seen some bad motorcycle vs deer come through the ER

 

[ckwilli]

That's a total? Wow. Glad you're OK.

Here in UK that would probably be reparable.

It’s a very high mileage car and the repairs exceeded the value of the vehicle.

 

[Airboss/oc]

Glad your ok thats got to be a nightmare. My younger brother crashed into a cow on his dirtbike on a farm we were riding. He was ok and bounced off without harm

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

In India they would have that straightened and buffed out in a Day...all on a dirt floor...

 

[SOLANCO]

Well I’m writing this as I sit in the blind for MO firearms season. I hit a deer and totaled my car on the way to the farm this morning. Not really how I wanted to start the season. No one was hurt and the Hawken is ready to eat.

Before retirement I commuyted through a suburban area where deer were thick as fleas. Had a minor hit and a bunch of close calls. Then I installed this:
https://xp3hornet.com/hornet-electronic-deer-avoidance-system/
From then on every deer, or other critter, I saw was going away from me fast.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

I think that will buff out…