Deer Bumper
I've been thinking about getting a bumper to protect the front end of our truck from deer. How many of you have hit a deer or other large animals? I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble. One thi...
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The Deer Gaurd or as we call them front end ornaments look pretty, but rarely worth the exspence.
I’ve hit two deer and one bear. The deer were in our Honda EXI.... two times. Second time was a week after I got it back, from the first deer.
The bear was in my 2001 F150 with a huge steel bumper with a 8000 lbs Warren winch mounted to the bumper. The bear hit the bumper/ winch flipped up, took out the hood windshield and caved the roof back to the back window. My girlfriend at the time didn’t think much of my driving abilities, and she called her dad to come get her when we got to town, and that was the end of my the love of the month...at 21... I got a couple cuts to my face and right arm from the broken glass.
The truck and the bear were dead.... I liked that truck too.
All three animal intrusions were after dark. I have come up on deer, bear, moose, Elk, sheep, goats, rabbits and people many many times. There everywhere around here. The neighbours had a grizzly in their back yard about a month ago.... critters are everywhere....
Lesson I got out of those three episodes was don’t drive at night. If you have to drive at night cut your speed way back. Same as driving at Dusk and Dawn.... slow down. For 40 years I drove at night, dusk and dawn to and from work, no dead critters.
99% of the animals I saw dead on the road to and from work, got hit..... and flew or were dragged hundreds of feet farther down the Hwy....Speed
Some of Semi B train, Chip trucks have the deer guards on the front of there rigs. We have hundreds of those trucks drive by our place daily to and from the the pulp mill.
Every day you see damage on the trucks as they drive 24/7, with Deer guards and with out. My son in- law owns and drives a logging truck. He is here sitting here right now, so I asked him... he laughed.. and said save your money for deductible, and I agree.
Soup.
I’ve hit two deer and one bear. The deer were in our Honda EXI.... two times. Second time was a week after I got it back, from the first deer.
The bear was in my 2001 F150 with a huge steel bumper with a 8000 lbs Warren winch mounted to the bumper. The bear hit the bumper/ winch flipped up, took out the hood windshield and caved the roof back to the back window. My girlfriend at the time didn’t think much of my driving abilities, and she called her dad to come get her when we got to town, and that was the end of my the love of the month...at 21... I got a couple cuts to my face and right arm from the broken glass.
The truck and the bear were dead.... I liked that truck too.
All three animal intrusions were after dark. I have come up on deer, bear, moose, Elk, sheep, goats, rabbits and people many many times. There everywhere around here. The neighbours had a grizzly in their back yard about a month ago.... critters are everywhere....
Lesson I got out of those three episodes was don’t drive at night. If you have to drive at night cut your speed way back. Same as driving at Dusk and Dawn.... slow down. For 40 years I drove at night, dusk and dawn to and from work, no dead critters.
99% of the animals I saw dead on the road to and from work, got hit..... and flew or were dragged hundreds of feet farther down the Hwy....Speed
Some of Semi B train, Chip trucks have the deer guards on the front of there rigs. We have hundreds of those trucks drive by our place daily to and from the the pulp mill.
Every day you see damage on the trucks as they drive 24/7, with Deer guards and with out. My son in- law owns and drives a logging truck. He is here sitting here right now, so I asked him... he laughed.. and said save your money for deductible, and I agree.
Soup.
