Nothing Runs Like A Deer

James Howell · Jul 24, 2009

Last Saturday morning I was heading up near the Hunt Place to start mowing the Bahia hay.

About half way there, I came upon our twin fawns, two doe, and one buck.

Luckily the video camera was available and I started filming from the seat of "Vernon" our 56 model 70.

Decided to share another short video with y'all that shows <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVWrHKHRW4">nothing runs like a deer</a>.

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Goose · Jul 24, 2009

Good film, but I'm not in the mood for deer at the moment.

A couple of weeks ago, our daughter was visiting from DC. While she was here, she managed to nail a deer and total my car. I'd only had the car a couple of months.

She found out after the fact that within a mile of where her mishap was, there is at least one serious deer hit a week. The area is overrun with the stupid things. The State of Nebraska needs to have an unlimited deer season for several years just to get rid of the d**n things.

Between my wife and I, we've had four deer hits in the last several years. I have another car that has had both front fenders replaced twice, left headlight replaced twice, grille and right headlight replaced once, and the hood straightened, all from deer hits. You can slow down and keep your eyes peeled, and you still don't see the freakin' things till you hit them.

Kruse · Jul 24, 2009

I live one state to the south of you and it's just as bad here. My wife hit two deer within seven days with some major damage on each one. I've had several near-misses in the last couple of weeks also.
I need to just stop, take out a gun and start shooting, but there are so many it wouldn't help.

cj in wisconsin · Jul 24, 2009

I've hit so many in my life I lost count, even hit two on my snowmobile! Lucky to survive them. Have had two hit me while sitting still in the truck, I eat a lot of venison breakfast sausage, homemade of course. Good eatin!!! Still enjoy watching them though.

dhermesc · Jul 24, 2009

It's not any better in Kansas. I was running the grain cart for my brothers a couple harvests ago - part of my job was to pick up up the deer and haul them to the treeline while I was running back and forth to the truck. I thought they were joking - but the combine operator killed 11 that day with a Mini 30. He thought he might have seen about 80 or 90 deer that day and only took shots at them when they were in large groups and he could get three or four at a time.

Can't butcher them when you shoot them as pests so they get left for the coyotes - and they're starting to be a bunch of them around too.

Nancy Howell · Jul 24, 2009

Do any of the "deer warning" devices you can mount on your vehicle work?

omahagreg · Jul 24, 2009

Simple answer 'NO'. I had them on my FedEx truck, and 4 out of 5 deer that I noticed, did not stop and look, like they said they would, they kept running. The 5th one was already dead, so, my test says save your money for the repair! Greg

Anonymous-0 · Jul 24, 2009

In some cases the problem isn't too many deer, it's too many people. 50 deer to the square mile would be quite manageable if there wasn't a road near it. The deer seem to be able to adapt to an increase in people better than people to an increase in deer. Here in SW Manitoba we have a lot of deer (too many) but we're not very heavily populated (with people). In 42 years of driving I've run into one (and I'd just shot it's brother about ten minutes before).

cj in wisconsin · Jul 24, 2009

Simply put NO!!!! The cops in our county hit more deer after putting them on all the squads in the early ninety's. The deer herd is fairly constant here so it was a good test in my view.

IndianaRed · Jul 24, 2009

I think I might have to disagree, respectfully. Out at our samily farm in SE Kansas, the people poplulation, like most farm communities, has fallen drastically. Grandad said he hardly ever saw any deer when he was young, in the 30's/40's. Now they're everywhere, people hitting them all the time, like everywhere, and the human population there isn't 30% of what it was in the 50's. When I hear how much of the corn crop they eat, I couldn't believe it. If those were my fields full of corn that I bought seed for, ran my tractor through however many times, and had to combine, I'd shoot every deer I ever saw. Seems like between deer and coons they're losing 20% of their yield. And that's in KS where they don't get the big yeilds like in IL, IA, IN, etc. 200 bushels is almost unheard of.

Goose · Jul 24, 2009

I forgot, my wife hit one with our Chrysler mini-van last December.

An old high school girlfriend of mine who lives on the upland where deer are fewer told me once that deer are so beautiful and graceful she didn't see how anyone could shoot one.

I told her when you see what a herd will do to a corn or soybean field, it comes pretty easy.

Kruse · Jul 25, 2009

My county has about 3,000 people total and it"s a big county. Deer are everywhere.

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