Well yesterday I hit and Killed a DEER! The Jeep held its Owen at 65MPH. Wasted the bumper assembly and a few more pieces but not to bad. It could have been a lot worse! Now it is time for a new BIG Bumper like ROAD ARMOR or FAB TECH

 

whoa!! glad to hear you and your jeep are okay - well, for the most part anyway. fortunately, there are plenty of bumpers to choose from so let the shopping begin

 

We were driving thru Colorado last night.

There were literally HUNDREDS of deer on the sides of the road. Made for slow going, but safer that way. One herd (?) had about 25 all standing there getting ready to sprint across the highway. One goes, and the others follow. That would have been a disaster.

I always hear that if you are going to hit a deer, just hit the brakes and DO NOT swerve to try to miss it.

What did you (and others) do to walk away from this encounter?

 

WOW!!! Glad you are ok

 

Glad you're o.k. Sorry deer!

 

Interesting. I hit a deer in my Tacoma (1996) with a Warm Transformer grille guard at 50MPH and almost totaled it. If not for the guard it would have been a write-off. I put an ARB on it after that. Glad the Jeep held up better.

 

Glad to hear you are okay and the jeep is not too bad off.

Deer are bad to hit. They are just the wrong height when you hit them. Smaller things are usually plowed over and under, larger (say people) they go up and over, Deer they hit just right to be mainly impact without any of the reduction of the other two options. The two things I have always been told both start with drive through. A lot of the time the deer will be already on it's way across and get out of the way. The rest they are either too slow or just standing there. The reason I say two things is one school states keep speed hit it hard so hopefully it will bounce some causing less damage, the other states break as safely and quickly as possible reducing the speed thus the impact and damage. In my experience neither are better than the other because ususally you don't have that much time to react.

 

any carnage pics?

 

 

I will get some picks soon as i tear in to this project. And yes i was lucky the Deer went under instead of over the Bumper! Right now all i need is a complete bumper assembly But the grill has a clip off the lower side as well the turn signal this is the passenger side. They both may be Broke i will be tearing it down this weekend and see. The deer didnt know what happen i stopped and took some picks with my phone not to good i will try and load them soon. I am down to two bumpers Road Armor or FabFours.