I figure this is grand of place of all to post this, being as i do have a V6, and am happy with the breaking distance of these trucks.

After dropping off my Fiancee last night i was driving home and what would come running out of the ditch right in front of me? A beautiful little fawn. Locked up on the breaks, came to a very prompt stop with my front drivers side tire on top of her foot. After a second she rolled over and walked away from the truck without limping but sure looking mighty confused. Took a nice 2 inch patch of skin off of her a§§ when she got pinned between the bumper and the tire. Got home and there wasn't one dent, scratch, or hair on the truck. But there was a nice little bit flying around the truck after i stopped.

Nothing like spending a 14 hour day doing a gasket replacement on the truck to see a deer step out in front of you to destroy your baby.

Truck: 0
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Deer: 0

Anyone else suffer similar, or worse run ins?

 

I've been close but not quite that close, I was able to stop before hitting her,
but still scared the crap outa me.

 

Truck: 1
Deer: 0

 

I pass deer standing on the side of the road on Hwy 58 in Virginia State Park all the time. You really can't see them unless you get in "headlight view". They stand in the grassy median between a four lane divided highway and eat the fresh cut grass the park rangers cut earlier in the day.

It's funny, when I drive by them they'll raise their head and just stand there munching grass looking at me with those beady illuminated yellow eyes like "wtf you lookin' at?" And where there's one, there's three or four more.

I've never hit one...yet. Knock on wood 3x's. I've seen big splotches of blood and hair all over the road in a few places. That definatley tells me to keep an eye out.

I have had a deer come sprinting out of a hay field, jump a fence, land in the road, and pass in front of my truck. I guess I was going 35 mph and I missed it by a hair. That's the closest I've came to hitting one.

Anybody else got any deer stories?

 

I live in Eastern North Carolina and with as many deer as we have here I am surprised I don't have a story about deer. My story instead involves a hunting dog.

I was following someone home one night in my truck. They were driving a late 80's Mustang. I was right behind them so I couldn't turn on my bright lights (still haven't figured out why they were leading when I knew where they were going).

Somehow the hunting dog ran in between our vehicles. The person in the other vehicle never saw the dog. All they saw was my headlights disappear and then my taillights.

I hit the side of the road trying to miss the dog and the back of the truck broke loose. I corrected and somehow pulled it back up onto the road and when the front tires hit the pavement I overcorrected and did a 180. Somehow I missed the mailboxes on the other side of the road. Didn't mess a thing up on the truck. I felt lucky after that one. From now on I am just going to run over the dogs. Insurance will pay for the new bumper.

 

Yeah, if your going too fast to stop in time it's best to hit the animal than to risk swerving out of control, or possibly worse like hitting another car head on because of a dog. Unless you know you can dodge it, hit it.

 

While mine isn't about an encounter in an F150, I feel it is still worth the telling. I used to go on the road with dad all summer. One year we were in West Virginia and as we were rolling with a load of Chemicals (he drove for KLLM @ the time) well we see this huge buck with a few does around him and as we pass (45mph zone) by them the buck lifted his head and ran up alone side the road. Well to make a long story short his rack got damaged but he lived, had to replace the mirrors (passenger side) as well as the small window on lower portion of door. Bastard woulda made some good jerky lol

 

To share another story, i do have one deer hit, but not KILL on my record.

Passed out at a friends house and woke up at 4am. Well, lucky me had to work at 8am the next morning and lucked the heck out by getting up. I stumble to the car and take off. I'm awake enough not to swerve and my eyes are remaining open. But let's face it, i'm not 100% there.

So, i come around a corner and see a brown blob on the side of the road. First though, deer. I don't do anything and it keeps walking right out in front of me from the left side of the road. As it gets completly in the other lane an alarm goes off. DEEERRRRRR!!! Thump and bump was all i saw and heard. When i got home, i had a toung print on my front window from when the head got smacked by my A Pillar. Body took out my drivers side rear mirror, and the deer spun around and got it's back legs both run over, and most likely broke, but i never did find out.

I hit the thing doing 55 mph, hit it clean in the HEAD, and it walked away into the night, it's body easyily visible in the snow covered field in the full moon. And my *** wide awake with only 2 hours of sleep and due to work in less then 4 hours.

In that case,

Deer: 1
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Escort: 1
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Driver: 0