But I guess I was lucky. Every trip home to the farm, it's a hazardous trip because of all the deer. Last night I came around a curve, and there was a deer carcass in the road. Too late, I couldn't avoid it. I heard the front spoiler hit, and felt the drag all through the under carriage and out the back. I slowed down, no warning lights or noises, so I drove the last couple miles home. Pulled into the garage, no damage to spoiler or rear. I looked under the car, blood, hair, meat and skin from front to back, hanging off muffler clamps, transmission and every thing else. What a mess,and it smells! Wonder how the heck I'm going clean up this mess. I feed about 8-10 feral cats every day, so I decided to leave my car outside last night, and sure enough, checked later and cats all under my car having a feast. They cleaned up a lot of it and I'm hoping the rest will burn/ fall off when I drive it today. I'm just happy the deer wasn't alive and standing, I've totalled about five cars over the past 20 yrs. hitting deer.

 

Yuck! I'd be swearing at the bastard who didn't clear that mess out of the road after they wacked it.

 

Yea, I did, all last night

 

It's amazing how strong our 20 year old cars are.
We have the same problem down here. On the way to work I have hit two wild boars. I hit one with the 2006 TDI, it was $2,600 in damages! I hit the other with the 928 and did $175 worth.....
Glad you and the car are alright!

 

Twelve years ago I hit a horse. Lucky I wasn't killed. Ripped a gash in the passenger fender, pointed the headlight to the heavens, put a big crease in the passenger door and ripped off the mirror. His hind quarters grazed the corner of the windshield and shattered it. It cost me about 1k to fix. The horse.....Let me put it this way, I ruined a teenage girls summer vacation.

 

We've decimated their natural hunters and they breed like rabbits...........we need to harvest more of them; guess what I was doing all morning

 

Yepper. I don't hunt any more but our hunters have taken 9 bucks off our farm so far this season. That's 9 fewer to screw up my 928, or someone else's car. Just too many of 'em. BTW, I put on deer whistles last year, and I know this is anecdotal rather than scientific, but I think they work. Instead of having leapers in my headlights, I come on them standing stock still and looking straight at me. I think that's an improvement....

 

Those cats will clean it dry,give em a chance lol

 

Firemed, that's a big percentage of damage to a $900 car.

 

Some estimate that there are 20 million deer in the USA little wonder that they end up on the road from time to time.

 

I hit an alligator about 5 years ago luckily I was driving this

 

Yea, tell the hunters to quit shooting the bucks and start shooting the does. They are the baby factories! You can't shoot ALL the bucks and one buck can inseminate the whole heard so go after the doe BIG TIME!

Knocking on wood as I have not had the misfortune of hitting a deer to this point. My mom hit her first a few months back...really tore her up...she has such a soft heart about stuff like that...

 

I've shot six doe in the past three weeks, and I'm not done yet. I still have freezer space. They're all over the place here.

 

We're limited by law of the numbers we can have and the number of hunters get less and less every year...........................easier to go to the local 'meat' store.

This morning we were after elk but even with fresh snow there were few tracks except one cow moose. Back out tomorrow at dawn.

 

There are so many deer in some areas that the antlerless deer have no bag limit. Fifty years ago the total USA deer population was around 500,000 the results of overhunting and modern rifles. Today the number of people who hunt is way down and the deer population has exploded. Frankly harvesting wild game is a very GREEN thing to do