OT Deer Again

David G · Feb 15, 2016

Someone hit a big doe in front of my house last night, there were car parts scattered for 30' before the deer.

Bet DNR is not going to pay for that damage.

Hauled it off far enough it won't stink up my house.

RayP(MI) · Feb 15, 2016

Had a bald eagle dining on a carcass of last deer killed here this afternoon.

Pair-a-dice farm · Feb 15, 2016

(quoted from post at 21:37:04 02/15/16) Someone hit a big doe in front of my house last night, there were car parts scattered for 30' before the deer.

Bet DNR is not going to pay for that damage.

Hauled it off far enough it won't stink up my house.

The deer are herding up now. I saw a group of 23 in the pasture a couple of days ago. My son hit one last night and knocked the grill out of his car but the deer ran off. This was in town. There is one hit in front of my place every couple of months. Last summer a couple on a motorcycle hit one. They were lucky.

JD Seller · Feb 15, 2016

The last deer I hit was at 2AM in the morning with a loaded semi. It jumped right in front of the truck. Wiped out the hood, grille, radiator, air to air intercooler, and the AC condenser. The total cost including the tow was just under $12K.

I then put bull guard bumpers on all the semis. I have not hit a deer with them but our one driver did. All the damage was one broke head light bulb.

Darn prairie rats!!!!

RayP(MI) · Feb 15, 2016

Have had about a dozen car-deer accidents within half a mile of us in the past 4 months or so. One ran and expired in my garden. Saw 30 across the road scavenging neighbors cornfield a few days ago.

john in la · Feb 15, 2016

I have come close several time but have only hit one deer.
It ran under the trailer and got tangled in the trailer axles.
Drug it for many miles with out even knowing it was there.
Was a discussing mess.
Makes my stomach turn just thinking about it.

JDBRIDER · Feb 15, 2016

Never heard of the DNR paying for an accident. Where do you live?

RBoots · Feb 15, 2016

I work for a road department. We have to drag them off the road all the time, see some really nasty ones. If I see one hit in front of someone's house, I try to drag it down the road a bit to get it away from the house or at least across the road if there are a bunch of houses in a row. We are only supposed to move them off the road, not haul them away, DNR says that "spreads disease". That would be too bad... The cops have to shoot the hit ones quite frequently, then they call us to come move them. Even if the deer is laying with one leg across the yellow line, or blocking a whole lane on the freeway, they ALMOST ALWAYS call us to drag them off the roadway.

Ross

hd6gtom · Feb 15, 2016

I wish the herds here only contained 20 or 30. We see herds in the hundreds.Getting so bad some car insurance company's are NOT covering deer damage. Madison County Iowa. I wish I owned more acres so I could invite everyone on this forum to hunt.

David G · Feb 15, 2016

Just making a point there, DNR charges to hunt, does not pay to feed them or pay damages.

Jim in Ma. · Feb 15, 2016

Why would anyone feed them in the first place?

Bonnan · Feb 15, 2016

Never have it a deer but two have hit me! One in the drivers side door and the other jumped up on my hood. (LOL) In Pa it is either the Game Commission or municipality that suppose to pick them up. Our local township does it. Deer are bad and so are beavers; 15 acres flooded right now and of no use.

SparepartsTN · Feb 16, 2016

Back in the mid 70s when I was hauling swinging meat from Iowa to NYC and Washington, DC, driving on I-80 in PA at night was bad. Seemed like there was a dead deer in the road every mile, did a lot of dodging. I've never hit a deer but had a few close misses. There is a small herd of 6 to 10 around here, depending on how many survived the hunters. I like seeing them in my fields and woods when I am out there on the tractor.

old bc · Feb 16, 2016

I hit two deer in 6 months with my 1995 GMC pickup.
$3000.00 the first time $800.00 the second.

T in NE · Feb 16, 2016

I hit two last fall. First one took out everything but the condenser, I had already pulled it for better airflow to the radiator and air-to-air as it had a hole in it already. Things at least held enough pressure to get the load of corn off.

The second was small enough it went under the other truck instead of doing the same thing.

Donald Lehman · Feb 16, 2016

I believe he is talking about the deer eating his crops when he says "feeding". Here in northern NY is was common practice for individuals to feed deer to help them survive the winters. The practice started with a few individuals 40 years ago or so. When the deer started populating the farmland's here, the supplemental feeding helped minimize the browsing damage also. We had areas that the population was getting higher than it needed to be, but as always, the DEC over reacted, outlawed feeding, started handing out doe permits by the thousands and the end result is the population has crashed. Have seen two deer all winter and I'm not sure it isn't the same deer.

M-MAN · Feb 16, 2016

I have to dodge the varmint's pert near every night. Don't alway's succeed either. The last one jumped off a high bank as I rounded a curve and landed on top of my hood. Did quite a bit of damage to the car but it just jumped up and ran off. Pulled off it's white bushy tail and left it laying in the middle of the road. Officer got a laugh out of that.

S2710 · Feb 16, 2016

The DNR says that they own the deer so everyone that has a dead deer along there Property should load it up and haul it in to the DNR office. You don't want to spread disease all over the state, keep it all in one place. If every one did it, what can they do to you,lock every home owner up?

Bob

David G · Feb 16, 2016

I lose the first 20-25 feet on the outside of my fields due to deer.

jacksun65 · Feb 16, 2016

I hadn't seen a deer around here for a while poachers killed about any they saw including fawns. they are serving time now for drugs. I had two does show up last spring and now we have five that regulary show up. had one buck show up during hunting season twice six point the first time three point the next.

Jiles · Feb 16, 2016

I saw this some time ago.
Photos might be a little too graphic to post--BMW hits deep on autobahn.

http://www.evolutionm.net/forums/new-off-topic/322340-bmw-meets-deer-autobahn.html

KEB in GCMS · Feb 16, 2016

We actually go out in the woods behind the field and plant several patches and put out additional feed to try to keep them out of the crops and to hunt them. But in doing that there was still about an acre of the soybeans eaten out of one corner of the field.

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