Heading home from work tonight, got real close to home and doing speed limit at 45. Crested a hill and deer on side of road. It looked to turn around and go back. I speed up instead of braking and it decided to run out in front instead! Nailed a doe in the rearward area. Hit her with drivers side bumper area. Took out valence, black trim on bumper and marker light. Driver side tire locked up and I skid to a stop. Put a flat spot on tire too. Ugh...

 

Got out to assess the damage. Deer, dead. But she's PREGNANT. baby kicking in the womb. Wife freaking out. So I do the unthinkable. Drug the deer to the shoulder, cut her open and pulled the fawn out. Umbilical cord was severed and was not in the placenta. 

 

Did CPR for probably 30 min. Working on getting fluid out of the lungs by sticking fingers in mouth and hanging by the hinds. Compressions were difficult. I really thought I felt a heart beat at some points. Did breathes and got fluid out of lungs but still no response. I wore myself out on that poor little thing and dunno if I could have done any better or more. 

 

Really sucks to have not been able to get it resuscitated. I keep wondering to myself if it would of even had a chance in the first place. 

 

If the cord was severed and not even in the placenta, it seems like the truck did a fatal hit to the fawn.

 

Needless to say, I never thought I was actually ever going to give a deer or fawn for that matter cpr. Not to mention the first time I've ever had to put any of my training into action would be a deer!

 

What a screwed night... guess this reinforces the need for a better bumper now. 

Mike's gonna put on one of the old locomotive fronts so the deer shoot right over the truck

Edited June 25, 20168 yr by JAG1

@hex0rz Very impressive light bar. Just remember if its mounted above your factory headlights it not legal for the highway use as a rule of thumb. If it mounted below the headlights and you can aim the light bar properly then it can be used on the highway.

I use my Rigid lights every single day going to work @ 4am or coming home @ 2am on 28 miles of country back roads. From the video which is hard to judge lite looks like my Rigid 10 inch combo lite bar in the middle of the ranch hand plus a pair of D2 Dually lites aimed about 30* to the outside puts out about as much lite as the 52 inch light in the video.

When I see comparisons of other brands that stand up to the destruction attempt videos of Rigids and they keep ticking I will look into other brands but I have found no other company willing to put their products up to the same testing standards rigid does which makes the added cost worth it especially when using them to brand deer.

We run them on a most of our equipment at work and in about 5 years and having hundreds of them out in the field I have only seen one of them quit working in that time.

Edited June 25, 20168 yr by Wild and Free

One of the truck drivers I work with had a deer try to jump over his late model freight liner today. Hit the drivers side window and shattered it, showering the driver in glass. Had just a couple small cuts on his face is all. He was fortunate! Killed the deer. Didn't think to take a picture. 

3 minutes ago, Royal Squire said:

One of the truck drivers I work with had a deer try to jump over his late model freight liner today. Hit the drivers side window and shattered it, showering the driver in glass. Had just a couple small cuts on his face is all. He was fortunate! Killed the deer. Didn't think to take a picture. 

 

I've seen deer clear the top of pickups. Like in my example a couple of deer come up from the river 2 made before the truck the 3rd one made huge leap and lightly tapped the canopy shell on the back as it came down. I watch this whole thing happen before me. I pulled over with the truck ahead and we were both shocked to see a deer jump so flippin' high...

I only plan on using the light off highway in the rural area. I can usually see a vehicle soon enough to turn it off before it becomes a problem. 

 

There's a couple people that do the same thing already, just haven't seen them in a while. 

seems about one in 4 pickups have the big roof mounted lite bars anymore in my area. I have been fortunate to not have a deer jump but have had numerous grills taken out by Pheasants and jack rabbits in the days before I had the ranch hand bumpers years ago, those Jacks are the jumpin buggers that cause lots of damage too.

Edited June 25, 20168 yr by Wild and Free

I just bounced a grouse off my driver side headlight few evenings ago. No damage. Scared the crap out of me because I didn't see it till I heard the thud and the feathers flew up. Again in my case I was traveling slower than typical because of the dust hour.

blind em to death

three 55w hid up top for distance

two 32" led bars one is amber now

55w projector hid headlights

55w fogs

 

its actually saved my hide already with deer, saw them waaay before i got close so i can slow down

Just like my 100w aircraft landing lights...