Deer hunting Arkansas style

[Bwana]

I started off the deer season a little early. On the way to the woods Saturday, I was cruisin' the Range Rover down I-530 about 70 mph with a trailer in tow with my 500 Polaris on it, and a 4 point ran out in front of me somewhere around Hensley. I smacked it dead center of the truck, and it went under the right side wheels, and on under the trailer. Talk about some high speed swervin'! I was all over the road. Good thing nobody else was around. It took me about 400 feet to stop. I loaded it up, although it looked pretty bad, to see what I could salvage. Front shoulders and 1 backstrap was all that wasn't ruined. But the Rover took it in stride, I only lost a driving light. Not a scratch or dent anywhere. It's nice to have someone up above looking out for fools like me. Lots of folks get killed hitting those things at that speed. There's a good reason for lifting your rig and putting on bigger tires. You roll over large animals, instead of them coming through the windshield to meet (meat) you up close and personal.

p.s. I love roadkill jerky.

[Funrover]

Very Nice........ Glad to hear you are okay!!!!! Sounds scary....That type of thing happened to me once.....Only I was in a nissan Maxima......The chevy truck going the other way hit the deer and it fleww in front of me on it's side...Being on the 2 lane road gave me nowhere to go...I hit the deer at 75 MPH....I was airborne for a little while(though it felt like forever)... All that happened to me was to window motors and an alignment...The truck on the other hand...... well it needed a grill, headlights, radiator, driverside fender, tie rod, brake hose and mirror.....it was pretty trashed but noone was hurt...

[WCURoverD90]

I missed about an 8 point this past weekend by about an inch. I still think his whitetail hit my bumper as i went by. Come to think of it...I was in my old tacoma-I should have hit his ass....

[DallasRover]

Originally Posted by WCURoverD90

I missed about an 8 point this past weekend by about an inch. I still think his whitetail hit my bumper as i went by. Come to think of it...I was in my old tacoma-I should have hit his ass....

My manager lives in Minot N.D ( ) but she hit two in one day about a month ago

[Moeras]

Glad you are OK. This is one of the reasons I will always drive larger trucks, there is more safety margens build into them for something like this.

Animal hits in some parts of South Africa is quite common.

My farm is in the Limpopo province where both wild annimals and domesitc live stock is more abundent than humans. I once hit a cow at about 30km/h. I saw her walking into the road and was able to brake, but stopping from 120km/h with a Isuzu pickup (my daily driver) takes a couple of meters. i still hit her and ended up shooting her to put end to her pain. The truck had some damige to the grill, lights & bonnet.

The worst however was hitting a Warthog at about 100km/h in a Ford F100.
Now you willl agree with me that a (old 1975) F100 is as hard as a rock. well so is a warthog's head! We hit it with the left wheel, it folded upt the left fender like a piece of paper, tore the wishboune from the chassis and just about ruiend the suspention. We ended up going into the veld for about 100m or so on three wheels. (the truck had no safety belts, so i was on wearing any at the time. )
Now I tend to drive a lot slowere when I see Annimals next to the road.

[FrankS]

Originally Posted by Bwana

I started off the deer season a little early. On the way to the woods Saturday, I was cruisin' the Range Rover down I-530 about 70 mph with a trailer in tow with my 500 Polaris on it, and a 4 point ran out in front of me somewhere around Hensley. I smacked it dead center of the truck, and it went under the right side wheels, and on under the trailer. Talk about some high speed swervin'! I was all over the road. Good thing nobody else was around. It took me about 400 feet to stop. I loaded it up, although it looked pretty bad, to see what I could salvage. Front shoulders and 1 backstrap was all that wasn't ruined. But the Rover took it in stride, I only lost a driving light. Not a scratch or dent anywhere. It's nice to have someone up above looking out for fools like me. Lots of folks get killed hitting those things at that speed. There's a good reason for lifting your rig and putting on bigger tires. You roll over large animals, instead of them coming through the windshield to meet (meat) you up close and personal.

p.s. I love roadkill jerky.

Bwana, be careful eating road kill, especially any bruised sections, people have been known to die from eating this.
Funny Story 2 Yanks (Americans) were driving across the Nullabor Plains in Western Australia when they hit a large (6') Red Kangaroo, they got out to take some pics, when one of the Yanks decided to have some fun. He took off his expensive Leather Jacket and with the help of his Buddy they dressed the unfortunate Kangaroo in this leather jacket and while one propped up the stricken 'Roo, the other went to take some pics of this wierd scene. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the 'Roo) the 'Roo was only unconcious, not dead and after kicking the cr@p out of the idiot propping him up, proceeded to hop away with a nice new leather jacket, wallet and passport, fair dinkum mate, God's honest truth, Regards Frank.

[garland823]

Originally Posted by FrankS

Bwana, be careful eating road kill, especially any bruised sections, people have been known to die from eating this.
Funny Story 2 Yanks (Americans) were driving across the Nullabor Plains in Western Australia when they hit a large (6') Red Kangaroo, they got out to take some pics, when one of the Yanks decided to have some fun. He took off his expensive Leather Jacket and with the help of his Buddy they dressed the unfortunate Kangaroo in this leather jacket and while one propped up the stricken 'Roo, the other went to take some pics of this wierd scene. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the 'Roo) the 'Roo was only unconcious, not dead and after kicking the cr@p out of the idiot propping him up, proceeded to hop away with a nice new leather jacket, wallet and passport, fair dinkum mate, God's honest truth, Regards Frank.

you know some little kid looked out his window when the kangaroo went by and had giggle fits for weeks. my cross country team was riding in the van after a meet last weekend (i stayed near where the meet was for the rest of the weekend visiting family) and they hit a deer on the interstate. i'm pretty sure the bus is a ford, but anyway the radiator was done, as was the deer and one of the headlights. kind of glad i wasn't there.

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by FrankS

Bwana, be careful eating road kill, especially any bruised sections, people have been known to die from eating this.
Funny Story 2 Yanks (Americans) were driving across the Nullabor Plains in Western Australia when they hit a large (6') Red Kangaroo, they got out to take some pics, when one of the Yanks decided to have some fun. He took off his expensive Leather Jacket and with the help of his Buddy they dressed the unfortunate Kangaroo in this leather jacket and while one propped up the stricken 'Roo, the other went to take some pics of this wierd scene. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the 'Roo) the 'Roo was only unconcious, not dead and after kicking the cr@p out of the idiot propping him up, proceeded to hop away with a nice new leather jacket, wallet and passport, fair dinkum mate, God's honest truth, Regards Frank.

Yeah, that's why I had to throw so much away. In Arkansas the deer aren't very big (average around 100 lbs.), and a Range Rover does some serious damage. I ended up with 2 quart bags of jerky.

There used to be a radio spot where a guy hit a deer with his car and put it in the backseat, and it woke up and bit him on the neck. He jumped out and got in a phone booth and called police. The recorded call is hilarious.
http://www.copsonline.com/funny%20audio/deer.wav

[FlyWheel]

Bwana...glad to know you nor the Landy or none too worse for the wear.
Was it not in Arkansas that the guy battled the deer to the death in the bedroom three weeks ago?
We have "Panther Crossings" here...but all I see are gators so far.

[FlyWheel]

AHAHAHAHAAA....
Bwana...I laughed so hard at that recording that I snorted into my glass and expelled my rum & coke!!!!!!

[Bwana]

Originally Posted by FlyWheel

Bwana...glad to know you nor the Landy or none too worse for the wear.
Was it not in Arkansas that the guy battled the deer to the death in the bedroom three weeks ago?
We have "Panther Crossings" here...but all I see are gators so far.

Guns? We don't need no stinkin' guns for deer season....

[WCURoverD90]

Originally Posted by DallasRover

My manager lives in Minot N.D ( ) but she hit two in one day about a month ago

Thats crazy......

[AAXD]

My mom hit a big buck with her explorer one day and had to take it to the shop. The insurance company gave her a pontiac boneville as a loaner. We were drivin down our road that night to go out to eat and a buck ran across the road so she stopped, 2 seconds later I heard a smacking sound on the side of the car. Another deer had run straight out into the road and obviously didnt see the bright white car stopped in the middle of the road because it managed to run right into the side of the boneville, breaking its neck and slid back across the road into the woods. Moms insurance premiums have never been the same.