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I was looking outside and a deer had been hit as the truck just went on. I went up to the deer, a young buck and it was still alive, but suffering badly. So I went back and got my shotgun, then went out to put it out of it's misery.
If anyone hits a deer and it doesn't get back up, they should at least call the sheriff or the police.
Before pulling the trigger, I apologized to the deer. The state highway department is coming out to get the carcase. He was badly mangled.
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Whitetails are like flies around much of south Texas, you have to be very careful driving the back roads, and even major highways. Hitting a deer at 30 MPH is one thing, hitting them at 70-80 MPH isn't going to be good for the driver.
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Charley,
I live on a major highway thru the hilly areas of Ohio. It is nothing to see trucks going 65 around here. Bow season is upon us, but it is still a shame that this buck had to pass in this fashion.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 10:50 PM |
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Quite a few highweay smears starting to show up here nowadays. :(
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| Posted: Sat Nov 7th, 2009 12:03 AM |
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we call it venocide ... i seen many of them hit it's always a bummer ( and a waste ) i havent ever hit one but only because i pay attention and i know that where i am the times and places i have to look out for them the most ..like now when the rut is on as well as hunting pressure eh makes great dogfood and/or coyote bait
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We live in the country of southern NC and they are so bad that I only travel 45 once I leave the main highways. One had better keep a keen "eye pealed" or he will have a major auto repair bill. We have totaled one car and damaged four others or rather the deer have. LOL, my wife is a much better "deer hunter" than I but of course she drives like a maniac on steroids all the time-day and night. That is the reason the front of the car has not been repaired. Just got tired of repairing/replacing fenders, grills, and hoods. wc
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I have to drive very careful at nite not only for deer but horses to. A horse not only totals your vehicle but is as likey that it will go thru the windsheild and in your lap. Ive never hit either one though ever knock on wood. Short of hitting a horse in the jaw with my passenger side mirror as he stepped out of the ditch going about 40-45. No damage was done though short of a dent in the front side of my mirror thats still there. Last edited on Sat Nov 7th, 2009 01:30 AM by
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My daughter lost our passenger side mirror while visiting from college to one of the varmits. They really are a pest around here. Probably a dozen have been hit within a mile of our home in the past few years. Have finished off a couple injured deer just off our driveway. wc
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We have them hit many times during the cooler seasons, but a lot of people, myself included have Deer Whistle on my van, They work.
My grip about this situation is leaving a wounded animal to suffer.
Jerry
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This is very unfortunate. It's good you were there to do the right thing for the deer.
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Thank you
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boy i wish you fellows could send some of those surplus whitetails up to vermont we could always use a couple more. Moose is a bigger problem up here can't seem to train them to look both ways before they cross. And Jerry i here you on the hit and don't cheak. Just sicken for people to do that.We somtimes forget we moved into their backyard
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In kansas we can get a salvage tag from the warden and even the deputy.One I hit,the deputy came out and didnt have a tag with him.He told me to take it home and the warden came out later and gave me one.I have a special process to salvage a deer that has been hit on the road. Split the hide down the spine and peel it down the shoulders.If they are bruised up I go on down to the hind quarters.Whatever is good I salvage,otherwise my dogs love me. Last edited on Sat Nov 7th, 2009 11:44 PM by wheezengeezer
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wheezen I have salvaged a few road kills myself. you know 30 years ago when a prime coon was worth 35 to 40 dollars you never saw a roadkill go to waste this time of year. I run a municiple road dept last week we burried two medium sized coons and one large beaver that were killed in the road. May not have been a whitetail but still what a waste.
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miestro_jerry wrote: We have them hit many times during the cooler seasons, but a lot of people, myself included have Deer Whistle on my van, They work.
My grip about this situation is leaving a wounded animal to suffer.
Jerry
I've hit 8 deer in 12 years. I don't know that they don't work but I'm not sure if they do work. (the whistle). I think you have to be going prettty fast like on the Interstate before they make a sound but you see a lot of Interstate kills.
I grew up in a "suburb" of Anchorage AK. and saw vehicles that hit Moose that were totaled (vehicle) and the moose wonder off. The roads weren't so good, really frost heaved, so 50mph (that would be a mess) was fast and the moose would sometimes block the road in their wanderings and you couldn't get around them. There were stretches of road that had no shoulder for 10 miles. The area between Spenard and Portage you could always get hung up with a moose. and they wouldn't budge.Don't blow the horn. They'd come up and butt the vehicle. You'd have to pick your moment to ease by and hope for the best. They're big up close like that.
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I live in the country and the road in front of my house has 55 mph speed limit, which I think that is a just suggestion.
The whistle dor work for me and many people around here. Moose are a different story, we don't have any that I can see or track, so they must be smarter than the ones I hunted in Quebec. 
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miestro_jerry wrote: I live in the country and the road in front of my house has 55 mph speed limit, which I think that is a just suggestion.
The whistle dor work for me and many people around here. Moose are a different story, we don't have any that I can see or track, so they must be smarter than the ones I hunted in Quebec.
Jerry
I never hit a moose but wish I could say the same for deer.
I live in the same type of landscape. Hollows and timber close to the road. All outside of town. When the sun goes down you really gotta look out.
I put headers on my pickup and its pretty loud and so far I've only hit 3 with it. The rest were with my Ranger and deer whistle and my Altima and deer whistle.
Wrong place wrong time
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Tonight, I was going to town to pickup a pizza and there was a nanny goat standing in the middle of the road. I stop, honked the horn, the goat crapped on the road and walk away.
Must be a political statement.
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Totaled a pickup in VA in broad daylight a year ago. Smacked another one last winter, and a second got clipped by another car while I was checking damages. Another guy came along (we were both on the way to a club meeting) and had a pistol with him (I wasn't carrying at the time.) We put both the deer down and pulled them off the road, called the sheriff. Both were gone when we left the meeting. I hate having to do it that way. Car damage was really minimal, just a cracked grill and messy seat.
Gotta say, I'm really, really, watchful when out on the bike.
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I sold my Trumpet many years ago, so I don't ride any more. But in my neck of the woods, about the end of September is when the weekend bikers quit riding.
I live on a beautiful winding paved road, have seen many bikes, even one of those bikes with the two front wheels.
Come deer time, the bikes go away.
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