I figure they were between 150-180 lbs.

 

Yeah, their tiny out here. I had a few close calls late night in the poudre canyon coming home from Mishawaka (outside fort Collins) back in the day. those deer were freakin huge.

 

haha, dang... that stinks

 

18 years driving my truck, never hit a deer (jinxed myself now!!).bought an itty-bitty car for good gas mileage and my wife put a deer over the hood one night (less than 3000miles on that car / was brand new). ditched the little car (sold it) and will never drive a car again.

 

guess i am the only one with a good deer story. 87 corvette in high school, girl was umm... anyways, deer ran into the side of the car. T-boned my freakin corvette! I was more in pain than see what hit me because of.... she got startled.
but it made a scratch on my transistion moldings, the ones that run down the side. I went back to being cared for after that.

 

Yeah screech we all hate when they.... "get startled" lol...




the deer was probably surprised too...



what happened to the 'vette?

 

ouch.... double ouch

 

good thing somebody didn't lose an eye!

 

As an ex Lusbian I know all about them deer up there. They are all over the place. Glad you didnt get hurt!! Hey did you by chance go down to Solomons Island for the 4th. Love the fireworks display. We had a few across the river on the Saint Marys side just past the mouth of Town Creek.
Jim

 

You need to get a deer whistle bro. Unless your a hunter then its not so good.

 

We went up to the one near Chesapeake Beach on the 3rd. The 4th was spent relaxing around the house~

 

I've heard those deer whistle things actually are'nt so good... they attract the deer out of the woods to the edge of the road to see what the fuss is before it gets loud enough to drive them away... but by then you are on top of them and they may spook right in to the road in front of you...
anybody hear different on these things?

 

living in PA all my life, I have seen MANY cars with these on, smashed in on the front end, with some hair and blood on the remains of the bumper. a huge waste of money in my opinion, it will cost you even more. Good explaination Aviator!

 

Insurance companies have done studies on the whistles (it's a billion dollar+ per year expense) and found ZERO affect. The lucky jerk who designed them sure made out, though!

 

This is one of those goofy things where the theory behind it makes sense [I mean make noise in the bush when hunting and see how many deer you see... not many right?...] but the practice does'nt work... and why would it? after all that "ultra sonic" whistle thing is the same idea they say "attracts" dogs [though I've never seen one of those work either] so why would it not "attract" other animals as well...

 

Those things suck...I had a buddy that put them on the corner of double sun roofs on a van. Once you get up to about 55 you could hear the things screaming!!!! Terrible things they were. And I also have seen a few cars with the bumpers all bloody with fir and the smashed whistle on the front.

 

but an Exocage should help out quite a bit