Don't hit the brakes if you are going to hit a deer and there is really no chance to stop. Hit the gas, the deer is less likely to come through your windshield.
Don't hit the brakes if you are going to hit a deer and there is really no chance to stop. Hit the gas, the deer is less likely to come through your windshield.
Brett_Murphy wrote: Don't hit the brakes if you are going to hit a deer and there is really no chance to stop. Hit the gas, the deer is less likely to come through your windshield.
Not recommended in a Jeep.
My mother was hit in the side of her Corolla by a cow once.
My brother OTOH managed to hit a state highway worker. (It was the highway workers' fault and the state paid to fix the truck)
In reply to Brett_Murphy:
That's gonna depend a lot on the shape of the car and how fast you're going, at double digit speeds in a typical car, braking is sound advice.
The only time I hit a deer, I had no time whatsoever to react. Deersmashwtfpoop was about the way it worked. I was on a gravel road with tall grass in the bottom of the coulee, and kablammo- Bambi was dead, and so was the grille in my 67 Impala.
I have never owned a car built in 1967.
I have owned car car built every other year from 1961 to 2012
I was built in 1967. 
I owned a 1967 Impalla for a number of years. I haven't covered even half of the rest of the years.
I was not in 1967.
Most of the cars that I want, and two that I own, are much older than me. I was built in 81.
I owned a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere II hardtop. I loved that car.
I was hit by a deer one month after buying my first-brand-new-car-ever Mustang. I was running 60mph and a 6 point buck charged me from the median. I snatched the wheel a little and nailed the brakes so he head butted the drivers front fender and bounced all the way down the car. Cost about 4k to fix as I remember. I lucked out for 3 reasons. 1 - the guy in the 4wd dodge behind me managed to slide ot a stop within inches of my rear bumper with tires locked up but he didn't hit me. 2 - the deer hit the same fender that I'd clipped two weeks earlier pulling out of my neighborhood into the path of an oncoming truck when I shouldn't have. I didn't file and was going to fix it myself but the deer damage took care of the problem. 3- It only wrinkled the sheet metal. For all the damage that car has suffered, it's never been hurt mechanically. Even after the 50' oak tree fell on it I drove it home from Atlanta and it drove and handled just the same as it always had.
Saw 2 deer in our neighborhood on my 6 mile drive to work today. Last week stopped to help a guy who FUBAR'ed a ram pickup on one two streets over. I see as many deer here as squirrels, and I'm in a 100,000 person town.
When my Dad graduated HS in rural south GA in 1957 only one whitetail deer had ever been shot there. It made the papers. The infestation of whitetail deer is a fairly recent problem.
It's December 31st already? 
Damn this year went by quick!!
I want a mulligan.
A deer hit me last month as I drove through East Texas. I was going well above the speed limit when he came charging across the road.
I hit the gas and aimed in front of him. He bashed out my passenger door window and scratched up the door just a little. I was shocked at how little damage he incurred. $40 at the junkyard and I was good as new!
Oddly enough I was on my way to get a Miata exhaust from GRM member
I had a 1966 Datsun that had the VIN tag stamped by the dealer as a 1967 Datsun. So I might have owned a 1967 Datsun except it really was a 1966 Datsun.
Datsun guys understand......
I have a stock miata exhaust system sitting around if anyone wants it.
Let me clarify:
If you know are going to hit the deer, don't slam on the brakes and risk losing control. If you are hitting your brakes and you realize you're still going to hit the deer, get off of the brakes.
I am not advocating speeding up to hit the deer.
1967 was probably my most common car year. '67 Mustang, '67 XR7 GT Cougar, '67 Jeepster Commando, '67 Triumph TR4A. Come to think of it, I've also owned cars from '77. '87, '97 and '07. Woo Hoo for 2017!
Toyman01 wrote: I was built in 1967.
I graduated from HS in 1967
My dad enlisted in 1967.
66 Fury, 67 Impala, 69 C10, 66 Delta 88, 73 510, 72 Dart Sport, 82 Z28, 72 510, 72 Vovlo142E, 70 C10, 75 Jeep J20, 86 Commanche, 90 Dakota, and then it starts to get weird. 35 or so Neons, a few Integras, Volvos, and all sorts of other stuff...
why do we celebrate making it around the sun one more time? Did we think that the cops would pull us over for drunk orbiting or something?
drunk orbiting
don't knock it until you try it. 
The way we seem to be going I think there is plenty of reason to celebrate completing another trip around the local star.
Streetwiseguy wrote: 66 Fury, 67 Impala, 69 C10, 66 Delta 88, 73 510, 72 Dart Sport, 82 Z28, 72 510, 72 Vovlo142E, 70 C10, 75 Jeep J20, 86 Commanche, 90 Dakota, and then it starts to get weird. 35 or so Neons, a few Integras, Volvos, and all sorts of other stuff...
How the hell does one go about owning 35 neons?
2015 already?
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