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Deer Crossing

Bigger pucker factor when you see them run up onto the highway at night when you are doing 100km/h and some decide to go back from whence they came. I much prefer to see them way off the road. ;)

Pete
 
I try to eliminate night driving.
Once had a Moose come at me from the side of the road and it brushed the truck and ran alongside for a bit before heading back into the bush. A real pucker moment.
 
When the short days of winter are just over eight hours long the night driving can't always be eliminated.
I never argue with a moose. They want the right of way, they can have it. Fortunately around here there are no moose. Further north for sure.

Pete
 
I hit a deer just before Christmas
Theyre the same colour as the hedgerows in dipped beam and this one was running alongside my van before diving out in front.
I managed to get down to around 15 mph before knocking it down
I stopped and walked around to survey the carnage.
It was lying on the tarmac but looked at me got up and bolted off.
No noticeable vehicle damage.
Announcement today theyre possibly going to licence shooting them.
About time as they have ruined so many trees around here with several main herds of 60 ou more plus all the splinter groups.
They used to be a magical rare sight but now are as scarce as seagulls.
Looking forward to some bambi burgers..
 
I guess you just stunned it, very seldom do you get away without damage to your vehicle.
Around here if the deer or moose die due to a collision the police will do their report and call someone (locals) to take it away for their own use.
 
If you have the presence of mind and you know you are about to hit one broadside a lot of people have been killed as the back of the deer comes through the windscreen after it’s legs are taken from under it by your car, so if you are ever in that situation as you hit the brakes dive down below dash level.
Ian
 
fuse said:
I hit a deer just before Christmas
Theyre the same colour as the hedgerows in dipped beam and this one was running alongside my van before diving out in front.
I managed to get down to around 15 mph before knocking it down
I stopped and walked around to survey the carnage.
It was lying on the tarmac but looked at me got up and bolted off.
No noticeable vehicle damage.
Announcement today theyre possibly going to licence shooting them.
About time as they have ruined so many trees around here with several main herds of 60 ou more plus all the splinter groups.
They used to be a magical rare sight but now are as scarce as seagulls.
Looking forward to some bambi burgers..
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Not quite correct, Martin. The current law already provides for licence applications to shoot at night. What the draft proposals are suggesting is to allow shooting without the licensing requirements. Scotland are going one step further and proposing to have no Closed Season on bucks. Lots more opportunities for gralloching
 
RogerS said:
Not quite correct, Martin. The current law already provides for licence applications to shoot at night. What the draft proposals are suggesting is to allow shooting without the licensing requirements. Scotland are going one step further and proposing to have no Closed Season on bucks. Lots more opportunities for gralloching
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I read that somewhere as well. Apparently deer cause a lot of damage to trees and numbers (deers 😁) all over the UK are increasing at at an alarming rate as there are no longer any predators to keep them in check. The other option of course is to bring back the wolves..... - Rob
 
Inspector said:
Bigger pucker factor when you see them run up onto the highway at night when you are doing 100km/h and some decide to go back from whence they came.
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I don't know about deer but there is an old wives tale hereabouts that elk will never turn back, so if an elk runs into the road ahead of you then try to drive behind it. Perhaps it is unusual but I have seen elk turn round and retreat. The funniest was one elk who ran into the road ahead of me, slipped on the icy tarmac and fell over, then slinked off back the way it had come.
 
Headlights confuse deer and they panic. They may stop, bolt ahead or double back. I think they see them as stars and realise too late that they aren't and are in danger. If I have time I try to turn off the headlights and tap the horn. They won't panic as much. A few years ago on a one mile stretch of the highway near here 14 died over the course of the winter. The ravens and magpies feed on them during the day and the coyotes and fox at night. All trace of them are gone in a few days.

Pete
 
Venison is a tasty alternative to beef
Every time I lose a tree I visit the local butcher for some revenge.
With the associated pollution caused by traditional farmed livestock and the oversized uk wild deer population problem surely someone could do a 2+2 calculation?
 
At the moment (🤞🤞🤞) I've had one incident with a red deer (possibly a Hind) that decided to run out from my righthand side (UK driver) on a narrow road and jump the bonnet of the car. It caught the nearside side mirror, breaking it from the bracket. All I recall to this day is the windscreen going dark, hearing a bang and seeing the rump end as it ran off and jump a barbed wire fence...

Stopped to survey if the deer stopped before checking out the damage to the car. No scratches on the bonnet only the broken side mirror - repair ost around £175~£250...?

After stopping to check things I realised that a group of people with loose dogs must have disturbed it just as I was driving past - the deer having nowhere else go when in flight mode. Could have been mighty dangerous and a very different outcome taking into mind what Ian (@Cabinetman ) has said in #7...

Place of this happening? Returning home down the narrow road from Alfred's Tower, Stourhead woods in Wiltshire - part of the National Trust 'empire'.
 
Years ago, when I used to lead out motorcycle groups, we were coming home at dusk one day across Ashdown Forest and a deer jumped straight across the petrol tank. Just brushed me. Super lucky as I never saw it coming.
We were having a deer chat last night in the restaurant with a customer who does shoot deer. As it happens we had superb fallow deer on the menu. He says we have a deer population that is four times bigger than it was pre-covid. Overrun basically. Hardly any shooting went on during covid apparently. There are now not enough people capable of shooting them safely, and not enough vets to certify the meat.

The season will end soon as the rut will soon arrive. The shooters will still kill the prickets (young fallow males 12 -24 months old) to reduce in-breeding, but not the females. The meat from young males is much less desirable to chefs (not mature enough and the loins are thin) and during the rut can be very gamey and tough. It will go off our menu in April, though prior to that I will take delivery of half a dozen loins to cure.

We also have a glut of wild boar around here.
 
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