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ORIGINAL: velvetears
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If i ever cannot avoid hitting a deer, do i brake or not?  i have heard some say braking hard will land the deer through your windshield. Others say differently. i think it's a matter of time before i probably hit one myself.  i did hit one, but it was dead laying in the road already. By the time i saw it, i had seconds to either swerve or run over it. i didn't want to topple my caravan so i gripped the wheel and ran it over - had i been in my other vehicle i would have had major repairs to make.  This is different than hitting one standing up though.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

There are schools of thought, that believe that as deer(or any animal)are killed/die,that leaves an "ecological slot" open for another deer.

In other words,it`s the food supply,that controls the numbers.In rough terms,when we shoot one,that only leaves more food to be eaten by another dear,which are being put ,"on-line" by the tens of thousands every year as new-borns.If true,we could shoot them by the thousands and that wouldn`t change the road danger dilemma.

Has anyone heard about chemo-technology that makes deer  infertile?Food left out, that when eaten will keep the females from conceiving.

That could be much more affective.

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ORIGINAL: Celeste43

A State Trooper who used to hunt my land said that most deaths occur because people swerve. You swerve, you wind up in a ditch or wrapped around a telephone pole. You hit it straight and although the car will need several thousands of work, the deer will slide up and over your car, and not going through the windshield. Never swerve for animals on the road. Ever. Brake yes, swerve and lose control, no.

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ORIGINAL: Celeste43

I'm two hours from Manhattan, hardly the most rural of areas. But the major cause of death here is from car/deer meets. I don't know anyone who hasn't had a major deer accident. One of the things that keeps our town police busy is searching the woods for wounded deer after a car accident.

Yes, I'm pro hunting. Around here, you can get two doe permits per season; bow, rifle, black powder. Plus one buck over four points per. That means nine deer possible. Although the odds of getting a deer with black powder seems to be slim and none.

A State Trooper who used to hunt my land said that most deaths occur because people swerve. You swerve, you wind up in a ditch or wrapped around a telephone pole. You hit it straight and although the car will need several thousands of work, the deer will slide up and over your car, and not going through the windshield. Never swerve for animals on the road. Ever. Brake yes, swerve and lose control, no.

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If i ever cannot avoid hitting a deer, do i brake or not? i have heard some say braking hard will land the deer through your windshield. Others say differently. i think it's a matter of time before i probably hit one myself. i did hit one, but it was dead laying in the road already. By the time i saw it, i had seconds to either swerve or run over it. i didn't want to topple my caravan so i gripped the wheel and ran it over - had i been in my other vehicle i would have had major repairs to make. This is different than hitting one standing up though.

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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael

If you eat meat from a restaurant or buy it from a supermarket, the cruelty you cause by supporting factory farming is FAR worse than anything the drunkest, most lowbrow and cruel hunter ever did to a deer.  That goes for chickens, where most often the baby male chicks are sent down a conveyor belt to a dumpster to die, or cows that are slaughtered while still half alive, or worse yet, factory farmed pigs.

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I never really cared for the concept of deer stands.  If I'm going to hunt then by golly I'm going to HUNT, and for me that means going out and doing a bit of tracking, stalking and using natural cover. 

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Interestingly enough I find that hunting wild turkey is more of a challenge than either deer or bear... old Ben was right, they're a wily bird.