First Buck of the season

Ouch!

Ain't enough good eating on that to compensate for the damage done

in Oregon they passed a new law that you can keep the meat. but who wants to eat a deer that is blood shot all through and through

Ouch!

Man that's a lot of damage. I've eaten quite a few road killed deer. Depends on how bad they were hit as to what you get out of them. Hate to see it go to waste.

old guy wrote:
in Oregon they passed a new law that you can keep the meat. but who wants to eat a deer that is blood shot all through and through

Wisconsin has the same law, but you still have to call a cop and get a tag for it!

I had one take out the side of my van. Before I could get out to survey the damage 4 trucks had stopped at the scene. Not to see how I was doing, but wanting to know if I was going to keep the deer carcass. :R

OP: That sure is a lot of damage from just one deer. Be glad it was just the bumper and that he didn't come thru the windshield. I've seen that before and it rarely is a good thing for the driver.

I wonder why the air bags didn't go off and what it would take to finally do.

Ouuuuuuuuuuuch...............

Last April I creamed her daughter, about half that size here in PA, with my 15 GMC 2500 a year after it had been repaired from the below. Only the chrome steel part of the bumper and lower plastic insert along with a bent bracket.................$3K damage.

Sorry PBDB, comprehensive is a good thing, thats a $9-$10K or more hit I think. Good Job, proud of you, could not have done better myself :B
This was $9K, but was caused by one of those ever elusive concrete Bambi's. The **** plastic headlight assembly was almost a grand.

Ski Pro 3 wrote:
I wonder why the air bags didn't go off and what it would take to finally do.

Coming to an abrupt deceleration fast enough, which no deer is going to do. Airbags very seldom deploy when deer hunting with pickups, or even when hunting concrete light pole bases with trucks.

old guy wrote:
in Oregon they passed a new law that you can keep the meat. but who wants to eat a deer that is blood shot all through and through

"TENDERIZING" or Deer Baloney, meat sticks, jerky, sausage. Half the work is already done for ya. Just hang it in a cool garage for about 4 weeks to age it.

Last year I was driving 65 mph, at dusk where it is dark enough you cant see real well but still just light enough that your headlights aren't doing much good, traffic coming the other direction nowhere to go and the thing ran right into the side of my truck in the front of the front quarter panel. He crushed that in and my forward momentum made him spin his butt hit the rear of the front quarter panel his head hit the pass front door, butt hit rear door and head again hit rear bedside down low over $6k damage. New front quarter panel, front and rear door as well as bedside. Just last weekend put on a new bumper from ARB hopefully it will work as well as the bumper I had on my last truck. Hit one with that one all I had to do was scrape of the hair hit it dead center no damage at all was doing 70mph at that time.

I think the feds should pass a law requiring all dear in the rut to ware reflective gear. They are very hard to see!

old guy wrote:
in Oregon they passed a new law that you can keep the meat. but who wants to eat a deer that is blood shot all through and through

Washington did it too a few years ago.