Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Pond Boss Successful, But Expensive Deer Hunt....

Sounds like the "bigger caliber bullet is better" argument. If you hit them in the right spot with the smaller car they die just as fast! I swapped from a Diesel Suburban to that car because of the mileage: 20 vs. 50 mpg on my commute. I think the repair bill would have cost about the same either way!

When I saw the deer it was on the left of the road facing right. What went thru my mind in a split second was "If I continue going straight, and he runs, it'll come up over the hood and thru the windshield. If I cut behind him I might miss him, but I gotta stay on the road."

If I would have cut over another 2 feet to the left I would have missed the deer, but that would have put the left tires on grass, with a mailbox and a telephone pole not quite 40' past where the deer was standing. My only regret was not hammering the brakes harder (after learning to drive without ABS, the instictive thought is that I'll lock them up and if I slide, I'm screwed.)

I also thought "Damn, if I had to hit a deer, why couldn't it have a nice rack instead of a little basket rack?"