Deer Hunting.....

**rick130** · 10th January 2008, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Jeff

Don't think it can't happen here folks. I was travelling through Willow Tree on the New England Highway late one night when a medium sized deer stepped in front of the Land Rover. It was that close I braced myself for the impact, we missed by millimetres.

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Jeff

yep, they're all over the range here. We often see a few hit each year, often outside of Emirates.

Nearly cleaned a few up on the Putty road too, about 30km north of Colo Hts. Mostly Fallow through there.

**Bigbjorn** · 10th January 2008, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Jeff

We had already hit a huge wombat on the way up near Nowendoc, lucky we were in the Land Rover, in a car it would have ripped the front suspension out.

Jeff

Hit a fat wombat with a Ford Zephyr long time ago. Shoved the LH wheel and McPherson strut up under the car next the front LH door. Phuqued the wombat as well.

**Chenz** · 10th January 2008, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Hit a fat wombat with a Ford Zephyr long time ago. Shoved the LH wheel and McPherson strut up under the car next the front LH door. Phuqued the wombat as well.

Many years ago - before I owned a Defender, we were coming back from a hunting trip with the Toymota and a Suzuki on the car trailer behind us. Between Coonamble and Walget at about 5am a cow decided to wander up from the table drain and stop in the middle of the road.

My cousin hit the skids (thank god he did not try and swerve with the trailer or we could have really got hurt) and after a skid, measured later at 78 metres, hit the cow full on the centre of the bull bar.

Had to take the bonnet off and jump on it to get the bananna out of it. Pull the radiator out and solder it up with some lead we got off a cow cocky down the road and fix the front suspension that was bent rather badly. Worked from the prang till lunchtime to get the thing going. Top speed after the hit on the way home was about 55kph. Any faster and you could not hold the wheel. Had to get back to Sydney the next day for my sister's wedding.

Mrs Moo went about 10 metres in the air and landed with a thump. We had to unpack a rifle to finish the poor thing off. I will trade a fallow deer for a Santa Gertruda anyday!

**loanrangie** · 10th January 2008, 08:53 PM

Years ago we were coming home from hols with my parents and we came across a sandman panelvan that had the misfortune of hitting a horse head on, horse had escaped and wandered onto the rd at the wrong time and we dont think the van had any time to hit the brakes as there were no skid marks. Was in the bottom of a long downhill section and no doubt the van was hooting along, horse went straight thur the screen, decapitated the driver and was half way thru the van.

**VladTepes** · 10th January 2008, 11:58 PM

well that sucks.

**crash** · 11th January 2008, 10:53 AM

My mom was very lucky, one night driving to work through the local indian reserve she drove through a pack of horses that ran out infront of her. Mom was in a '74 Ford LTD Sedan. Hit a colt broad side, crumpled the front end in, but did not break any headlights or turn signals on the one side. She killed the colt when she hit it and they had to put down three or four other horses that had been injured in the crash. The car was repaired and drove it for another three or four years without any problems.

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