Haven't hit a deer yet

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Whatever you do, don’t swerve hard to avoid a deer. My son did that last year while driving within city limits in an F250. His tire clipped a curb and his PU ended up on its side, stopped only 20’ from a large natural gas pipeline. He walked away fortunately but learned a scary lesson.

Too many animals will change mind and go from where they came. Something like running into the unknown when they know it was safer behind them.

Usually if they have a good lead to make it across past half way. Fortunately young'un had mamma decide to cross, which it saw was safest to go. At one time it contemplated going back when I tried to turn away into empty oncoming lane, from mamma.

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Last week in Central Oregon, I narrowly missed a chipmunk, a kitten, and a Bald Eagle. Darn collision warning never warned me!

 

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I've had great luck using my horn when I see deer. Normally you never know which way they are going to run but I've found over the years that using my horn gives them some kind of sense of direction and they always run away from the road and my vehicle. The first few times I thought maybe it was luck but I've been doing it for a few years now and it seems to be pretty effective. More so than the "hope" method anyway.

 

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I've had great luck using my horn when I see deer. Normally you never know which way they are going to run but I've found over the years that using my horn gives them some kind of sense of direction and they always run away from the road and my vehicle. The first few times I thought maybe it was luck but I've been doing it for a few years now and it seems to be pretty effective. More so than the "hope" method anyway.

The horn, yes at times it can make them make a decision to move on. Just so happens yesterday some guy in toiwn got a hold of a very loud emergency horn. Louder than what used by our towns emergency squad. He tested it all over in short bursts. It echoed within the small crater like valley here. He had a blast so to speak. I donno if deer will run out of their hide or freeze and have a coronary. Ha!

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