Close Call for Me This Morning

docohm · Dec 2, 2019

Everyone has a deer story, right? Here's mine... We're driving home on Hwy 60 from the GMC dealer, just picked up our new Yukon at the dealership my nephew works at and we're headed 70 miles to the house. It's just after dark and I'm doing near the speed limit 65 or so on the two lane road. I get a glimpse of brown running across the road in front of me, I swerve to miss it but clipped it's rear end. The better half is busy reading something in the manual and yells at me "Why'd you do that!?!?", I calmly replied, "We hit a deer, dear"....
Couldn't find it after we stopped so must have just grazed it, $1,500 in damage mostly to the front bumper (cover) and the driver's side fender. There's not really a bumper up there any more, just a big plastic cover.

TerryMiller · Dec 2, 2019

264killer said:
Bless you.

bigred1 said:
Funny you put that last line in there. When I saw the title to this thread with your name on it and as much as y'all travel.... I was thinking bathroom break.

Okiedog said:
Good job Terry, and I do believe God goes out of his way to take care of us old folks.

I didn't have time to think about the bathroom break.

As for being blessed, a smart aleck I know on another forum asked me whether God was protecting the "old guy" from the deer or the deer from the "old guy."

Maybe both.

Tanis143 · Dec 2, 2019

I've never hit one, but came close a few times. The closest was driving back from my grandfather's place in Ft Towson. We were head back to Moore on state 3 and just on the west side of Antlers two of em darted across the road between my dad's truck and my little Plymouth Horizon. I thankfully saw the movement before my dad passed them and had already taken my foot off the gas and as soon as they darted my feet hit the clutch and brake. I could have grabbed the tail on the second one they were so close but we all went our separate ways untouched.

dennishoddy · Dec 2, 2019

First time traveling on I-70 to a snow ski resort in Colorado, I had to work overtime so didn't get away until 2am. I drove North to Wichita and couldn't stay awake any longer so gave the wheel to the wife that had been sleeping. Somewhere around western KS. I woke up to a surreal scene of giant snowflakes and mule deer, everything going in circles. I remember one deer seemingly looking in the window at me before getting the senses together and realizing we were in a 360 degree skid. Wife came up on a group of them with quarter sized snowflakes falling crossing the road, hit the brakes and went into a slide. We went in a full circle around a couple that just stood there before coming to a stop. Never hit any of them. I drove the rest of the way on adrenaline.
Couple years later I got a call at work that she had hit a deer not far from our house. After being assured she was OK even though she was crying, jumped into the truck and went to the scene.
She had hit a buck, spun 180 degrees in the road, sliding into the ditch in the opposite direction. When getting there asked again if she was ok and was assured she was. Why were you crying?
Apparently two guys in a pickup saw it happen, pulled up to the scene, jumped out, cut the head off the buck and left the scene, never checking to see if the wife was OK. She was crying because she had killed the deer and had to watch them do that.

Tanis143 · Dec 2, 2019

dennishoddy said:
...Apparently two guys in a pickup saw it happen, pulled up to the scene, jumped out, cut the head off the buck and left the scene, never checking to see if the wife was OK. She was crying because she had killed the deer and had to watch them do that.

Wow. I have no words...

druryj · Dec 3, 2019

Okiedog said:
Good job Terry, and I do believe God goes out of his way to take care of us old folks.

Amen. You got that right!

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AKguy1985 · Dec 3, 2019

I've hit four deer in five years from 2011-2015.

The first one was in 2011 after I had fixed my 99 crown vic after it had the front bumper torn off in snowpocalypse 2011. I went in to work late and was over by tacora hills on oloogah lake, went down into that dip near the entrance to red bud bay marina and there stood a doe. I hit her doing about 70 mph and she fit right in the grille, so once again tore the front of that car up.

The second deer was in early july of 2014 right after the 4th. I left my house for work and down the road is a four way stop. I come to a stop and there is an OHP facing east bound, found that odd as I never see OHP on my road. Well, I take off from the stop sign and get up to about 40 mph and this deer jumps out of the pasture on the north side of the road and lands directly on my passenger headlight/grille of my 02 Honda civic. He bounces off like a ping pong ball and lands in the ditch about 20ft away. Me, being startled and freaking out I stop and get out of my car and start screaming at the deer, I walk over to it and its thrashing around trying to get up but its spine was broken, so I pull out my S&W bodyguard and empty the mag into its body in the dark as its thrashing around. The deer died and I took back off to work, did a couple hundred dollars damage to my car.

In 2015 when i went to Colorado I was on my way back home and I was east of Pawnee on the cimarron turnpike it was about 3 am two does were walking across the highway, I hit both of them, the one to the left died on impact and slid across the road like a hockey puck, the other I have no idea if it lived or died, tore up the rental car which was a toyota yaris, did about $5,000 in damage to it.

I have bad luck whacking deer, both my coworkers hit deer in the same week at the beginning of November.

In 2016 when I was in colorado I almost had an elk walk out in front of me, but it decided not to and this was at night, all I saw was a big brown blur on the shoulder of the highway east of alamosa.

Snattlerake · Dec 3, 2019

Yeah AKdude, those Ford grills are the perfect size for doe. I saw four guys get killed when their car hit a horse. The 80's Malibu chopped the legs of the horse and the rest of the horse went through the windshield into the back seat through the fellows in the front seat.

Hitting a pig will ramp your car like a CHiPs episode.

thor447 · Dec 3, 2019

Glad you avoided it. I came within a foot of one on Thanksgiving night driving on southbound HWY 4 just north of Bridge Creek.

Catt57 · Dec 3, 2019

Never a dear, but almost a cow.

In my younger days I was driving at night on a back county gravel road heading home. Cresting over a small hill I suddenly see a cow right in the middle of the road. The ditches were deep drop-offs so I hit the brakes as hard as i safely could for a gravel road and braced for the imminent impact. I went sliding on the gravel and when I came to a stop I realized two things. 1. My eyes were closed. 2. I didn't hear or feel an impact. Upon opening my eyes I was greeted by the cow staring at me with it's head over the hood of my car and the bumper only 2-3 inches from it's front legs. I was doing ok for those first 2-3 seconds while we stared each other in the eyes. But then it let out a very long bellowing "Moooooo" and in that instant my composure fell apart. After what seemed like 4-5 minutes (Probably only 1-2) it wandered off the road and I eventually pulled myself together enough to finish driving home.

An experience like that will fill your heart with a strong belief in the Lord and your shorts with... well... you know.

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