I HATE DEER......agghhhhh

Gohot

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Had to replace about $300 worth of lights and stuff on my Sl 450 Mercedes once. When my Daughter came out here from Cali. I harped not to drive fast and always Watch For Deer..... So what happens..??? I hit one going to Chesterfield after some smokes about 4:30 AM. Plowed a %#^&*@ Deer. Ok thats history.. I WONDER if having the kind of noisy tires like most of us have, make enough noise to keep deer from wandering on the road as were comming? You know those little plastic 'Deer Whistles', well I think they work like a dog whistle in ultrasonic pitch that we can't hear, but they can. Seems to me that luggy noisy tires would work even better...NO? Wadaya think?I got a friend I meet at the corner store to set and tell lies with every morning, along with a couple other yokels, and his NOISY tires on his Silverado can be heard well in advance of his appearance, no kidding.!! about a quarter mile in advance.
 
Not true bout the tires, hit one in the 4runner not to long ago. Saw 3 does on the way home last night. Just have pay attention to the ones you see and look for the ones to jump out of the woods.


Edit: at least not true at low speeds, I hit mine at like 25 cause I was slowing down. Previous to that I'd never seen deer while in the 4 runner so there might be something to it.

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Gohot said:
Had to replace about $300 worth of lights and stuff on my Sl 450 Mercedes once. When my Daughter came out here from Cali. I harped not to drive fast and always Watch For Deer..... So what happens..??? I hit one going to Chesterfield after some smokes about 4:30 AM. Plowed a %#^&*@ Deer. Ok thats history.. I WONDER if having the kind of noisy tires like most of us have, make enough noise to keep deer from wandering on the road as were comming? You know those little plastic 'Deer Whistles', well I think they work like a dog whistle in ultrasonic pitch that we can't hear, but they can. Seems to me that luggy noisy tires would work even better...NO? Wadaya think?I got a friend I meet at the corner store to set and tell lies with every morning, along with a couple other yokels, and his NOISY tires on his Silverado can be heard well in advance of his appearance, no kidding.!! about a quarter mile in advance.
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I found one at 55mph on a back road, and I was either running MT's or Iroks (can't remember), but either way they had about 1/4mile of warning.
 
I think having a relatively loud truck does help. Having 500 watts of headlight when the brights are on helps even more. I can't stand driving vehicles with shitty headlights. As was said, keeping an eye on the side of the road is the best bet.
 
braxton357 said:
I think having a relatively loud truck does help. Having 500 watts of headlight when the brights are on helps even more. I can't stand driving vehicles with shitty headlights. As was said, keeping an eye on the side of the road is the best bet.
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I always install extra lights only exception was my Lexus sc400. That thing was bright as hell in low beam. I don't like quite cars,trucks,suv's either, at least every toyota pickup i've had. Has had some sort of deer plower on it, good solid thick steel with a edge.
 
GubNi said:
It's still possible, but my aunt had a big problem with hitting them and cut way back after adding the whistles.

BTW - just had to add this...

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@1:39 is that wolves driving????????:eek:
 
When I was in high school, I plowed into a deer at 60mph in my 79 J10. I had 33" mud tires and a glasspack on a 360cid engine. That deer heard me running 3k rpms for at least a mile. Good thing was with that old steel truck, it just bent the bumper and broke the headlight buckets. Drove it on home.
 
In my experience, first off, when Rut is in, drive slower, use high beams and scan. Don't swerve, but just brake. When rut is in the does come out of the woods at full blast, usually a doe running from a buck trying to get some tang. If you do hit a buck, he is chasing.
 
Yea the early rut is starting to kick in up here with the younger bucks. nothin will stop a buck chasing split tail. Back in high school i had a little chevy cavalier, had a 5 pointer jump in my frickin window. if that dont make you scream like a school girl, theres not much that will.
 
Theres a back road that I take home every night after work that have a ton of deer. Ive hit maybe 3 of them in the past 4 years on that road. Each time was while driving the lifted Cherokee on 33s. Ive cracked a header panel and bent the factory bumper, but nothing as far as the factory unibody goes. Ive got a big ol bambi killer on the front of it now and last time hit a buck jumping out at me at about 45mph. Im sure the deer coulda heard me from a mile away. 4.0/2 stroker hybrid, headers, and a glasspack, plus 33s makes for a very loud ride.
 
I plowed into a HUGE buck at 60-65mph going down hwy 158 about 2-3 yrs ago. I was driving my 01 Dodge RAM CTD that had AT's on it. NOT a quiet truck coming down the road. The damn fool buck jumped right out in front of me. Cruise control was on, and I didn't even have time to flinch with my foot to go for the brake pedal. My headlights did suck though. I fixed that after hitting him:D.
 
We had a terrified young lady pull into our driveway behind us one night .... she had just hit a deer a couple hundred yards up the road,
It was late and like most older rural areas, locals go to bed with the chickens .... we had just got home.
Calmed her down, called the NCHP so she could get a report.
The first thing he done ..... walked around to the front to look for whistles.
He said 50% of the deer calls have them.
They DON"T work.


Matt
 
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