My Maverick saved me. Totaled in deer strike @ 75 mph

[ScottyC]

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[Darklyter]

Glad you are alive and well!
Get the Burnt Orange. Tell your family that the color is your Consolation Prize and that 'You Alive' because of Baby Blue is their Grand Prize ..

 

[CaliMav68]

You must not have a wife or daughters.

OP, you're lucky it didn't come through the windshield.

Bro.

You MUST have a few things that are just for you. For everything else, yes, they are our queens and princesses.

 

[Surly Old Bill]

Glad you're ok! Engineers did their job right.

My deer story involved my first Tacoma, a 1990 base model 2wd. Leaving Breckenridge to go back over Hoosier pass after an evening of debauchery, there was a deer standing in the road as I started up the switchbacks. I slowed, and gave a few honks, expecting it to get scared and take off at any time, but it just stood there and I came to a complete stop 3' from it. At that point it lost it's headlight hypnotized state and jumped (almost) straight up in the air. It landed on my hood, hooves slipped toward the front, and the body crashed into my windshield. As it happened I was thinking "it's going to fall through the windshield into the cab". It didn't, but the window was pretty cracked. Then it danced around and scrambled to get on it's feet (hooves), slipping and denting and scratching the hood more and more, finally it got on it's legs, and instead of jumping off the hood onto the road, it decided to jump up on TOP of the cab, falling and denting again, slipping into the bed, scrambling back there for a bit and then jumping out and casually walked off the road onto the shoulder, It looked over at me as if to say "F U, that's what you get". All this happened in about 2 minutes while I was at a complete stop. I drove carefully the rest of the way to Fairplay, because I could barely see through the cracked windshield. Needless to say it was extensive damage. I replaced the windshield (as is law in CO for even the smallest crack or ding) and sold the truck to my company as a utility vehicle. I mean, other than the dents and scratches it was fine.

 

[Timothyd]

My “Baby Blue”. Saved me yesterday. Doingn 75 on the interstate and big deer decided to jump out of the long grass. Hit dead center at 75. Not a scratch on me, a little burn from the airbag but can’t believe I am still alive. It was like Grand theft auto. Hit the deer while airborne direct center hit on grill and through the deer about 10 feet in the air and across 2 lanes of traffic.

I am crushed that I can’t replace my Area 51 with a new one.
Really want the orange but wife and daughters have forbid.

Re. the color: It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

Follow up.

I hit the deer about 5am in central Louisiana.
Went to get the rest of my stuff out of it at the tow yard.
They were so excited to see me and that I was alive.
Then they couldn’t wait to show me the deer and that it was cleaned on ice.
Said all 4 legs were broken, both back hips broke and the antlers were knocked off its head.
My daughters are 25 and 22 so they have no issue telling me exactly what they think.
My wife was saying we have no bills now that the girls are gone if I want to get a 150.

i told her it was never about the money, I love everything about my MaV. You don’t have to climb into it, it’s cheap to fill up( or was until now) but the best part is I can sit on the tailgate and put my golf shoes on without having to jump up, and I’m 6’3” and with my hard roll up tonneau cover I can keep my golf clubs with me at all time la and they are secure.
Insurance has already called and said they are are sure it is a total loss so I am looking hard for a new one.
The burn is interesting but still feel pretty good.
So thankful when you consider what “could have been” 6 inches up and i am wearing the deer, left or right and it probably spins me at 75.

God is good!

That sucks the Maverick is a Total Loss but at least You can eat the Deer that took it out!!

 

[Cherokee]

Where are you, that deer are out and about in the middle of the day and there is no RUT?

We have that problem of them being out mid day, all day.
It’s because people feed them.
The body shop I like had 17 cars waiting on parts. All deer strikes.
He said the strikes are almost always near subdivisions where people feed them.

Those that feed them will never figure out they are killing them.

Old wildlife officer saying,
Almost every interaction wildlife has with people,
The wildlife loses.

I’ve named the seven in my neighborhood I see them so close so often. They commonly sleep right behind my cabin where they can hear my neighbors drop feeder.
It drops twice a day. It’s elevated to keep the bears from getting at it.

Had another city boy neighbor who made a feeder out 6” pvc. Used a drain clean out.
Got a great picture of a 300 pound juvenile black bear sitting there, arms wrapped around that thing.
He was pigging out.

They took off for a week,
Feeder went empty,
$20,000 damage to his fridge, kitchen and
Pantry when that bear pushed his dead bolt locked front door in and feasted in his kitchen.

I laughed my ass off !
He fed the bear alright, thought it was cute.

Metal sign over my fireplace reads,
“Can’t Fix Stupid”

 

[kevinmccune]

Wow glad your ok, I imagine the “pucker factor” was quite high when that happened
I can understand your family’s resistance on the department of transportation orange though.

OTH,easy to find in the parking lot.

 

[kevinmccune]

We have that problem of them being out mid day, all day.
It’s because people feed them.
The body shop I like had 17 cars waiting on parts. All deer strikes.
He said the strikes are almost always near subdivisions where people feed them.

Those that feed them will never figure out they are killing them.

Old wildlife officer saying,
Almost every interaction wildlife has with people,
The wildlife loses.

I’ve named the seven in my neighborhood I see them so close so often. They commonly sleep right behind my cabin where they can hear my neighbors drop feeder.
It drops twice a day. It’s elevated to keep the bears from getting at it.

Had another city boy neighbor who made a feeder out 6” pvc. Used a drain clean out.
Got a great picture of a 300 pound juvenile black bear sitting there, arms wrapped around that thing.
He was pigging out.

They took off for a week,
Feeder went empty,
$20,000 damage to his fridge, kitchen and
Pantry when that bear pushed his dead bolt locked front door in and feasted in his kitchen.

I laughed my ass off !
He fed the bear alright, thought it was cute.

Metal sign over my fireplace reads,
“Can’t Fix Stupid”

since people think deer are cute people have basically stopped hunting them,when I was young a deer occasionally was a treat very little wasted.now since there are few dogs around,its impossible basically to raise a garden or even have fruit trees,these things breed almost like rabbits and are a nuisance and hazard these days now they have started raiding the bird feeder,neighbor had a pet deer which basically destroyed anything plant like,finally the game Warden came and tranquilized and carted the doe and fawn off.( these things are wild animals.leave em be!

 

[Timothyd]

That sucks the Maverick is a Total Loss but at least You can eat the Deer that took it out!!

I was wondering how it tasted. I suppose a lot of it was wasted from the impact.

 

[Aherpa]

If you buy what you want, if they don't like it, maybe they will not 'borrow' it for errands.

 

[Cherokee]

since people think deer are cute people have basically stopped hunting them.

Hahaha
A country boy I know shot a nice 8 point buck last season.
From his front porch,
Used a crossbow so the neighbors wouldn’t freak out.

It was funny, it ran into his neighbors yard then collapsed. He hauled ass over and dragged in into his yard.

Neighbor gets up to find a blood trail across his driveway, and Mike standing there hosing it off.
He still freaked,
City people got no business moving into the mountains.
Country boys can survive~~~~
:’P

 

[rclee]

Get the safety orange.

Tell them next time the deer will see you coming and get out of the way.

I don't think they can see that color. All the hunters wear bright orange and the deer don't seem to see them

 

[The Cyber Orange Guy.]

Happy that you came ok from that, sorry about your truck.

 

[dlivry7]

get the orange you want. tell ‘em they can walk if they don’t like it. (lemme know how that works out for ya)

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