Interesting, but sad

[yaktamer]

Coming home from Montana about a year ago there was a stretch of I-15 through Utah where we saw about a dozen roadkilled deer, one every ten miles or so. Kids and I now refer to Utah as The Roadkill State.

 

[yaktamer]

Nothing wakes you up at midnight like cresting a hill and having a couple of dozen elk standing on both shoulders of the road with their front hooves on the fog lines ready to cross.

 

[31FordA]

Southeast PA is overrun with deer. Not a day goes by without passing several roadkill deer. The deer have even moved back in to the urban areas.

So far I have hit one deer. Back in 2012 I hit a deer in the fog with my gov’t Ford Taurus. The car was a week from retirement, the deer did $4,000 in damage and was DOA.

One of my colleagues was stopped at a stop sign, once again in a gov’t Ford Taurus. A deer leaped off an embankment right into the side of the car. The county spent $8,000 to fix that car, needed both doors replaced. Once again the deer was DOA, and the doors never did close right on that Taurus again.

 

[Kevin J.]

When I was 14 years old, I got my first elk with a Remington model 30 Express in 30/06. My 16-year-old daughter got her first elk with a 1984 Jeep Cherokee. Same results, dead elk. Mine cost me 29 cents. Her's cost her over $5,000. I win.

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[prairieviper]

Here in cornfields and cows country, seeing road killed deer on a daily basis is commonplace. When I was still on the job, we installed deer whistles on our squad cars. The cars with the whistles hit just as many deer as before we installed them. We even tried several different brands. After a couple of years, we ended the deer whistle experiment.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Many years ago, after our golf league, my brother brought in two crock pots of venison chili.

Someone piped up and said: "Dave, this is outstanding! What did you take it with?"

Dave: "a '77 Dodge Magnum."