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well long weekend I'm in the states driving i87 ny and a deer goes flying across the windshield in slow motion,turns out a tractor trailer nailed it and sent it in the air in front of the jeep. some trick driving and I just missed, I think the hoof just touched the antena.. was scary for the family, after that my daughters started counting the deer on the side of the road, when they reached 20 I pulled into a motel fir the night nit wanting to chance a collision.. thinking back it looked like the cartoon open season.I'll tell you what theirs no shortage of deer in ny state.. the next morning looked like a slaughter house floor for the next 100 miles. even saw those gov trucks loading the carcasses in the pick ups, stacked like cordwood.I think I'll need to get a heavy duty bush bumper.
 
In the state of PA the road kill annual count is greater than the harvest rates for all of Ontario's deer seasons combined! Travelling the U.P in Michigan and across the top of Wisconsin we considered it a miracle when I drove transport back in the late 80's if we made our weekly journey to Biwabik Minnesota to pick up our load w/o hitting a deer. We used to joke we were going to put kill marks on the drivers door and hood like the fighter pilots of WWII.....after a while we bought those whistle's you mount on a fender that they came out with that supposedly chased the animals from the roadside and we went a long long time without seeing anything. Maybe just coincidence but the only time we would see wildlife with those on the truck was when they clogged with bugs, snow or ice. I don't know if they still make them or not but I believe they do work from my experience.
 
I drove threw northern wisconson a few years ago, I think I counted 82 roadkill deer in 2 days, about 9 hours of driving. I couldn't believe it, seen probably 200 deer in fields off the road. They are polluted up there.
 
NY, PA, MI, WI all average 115 deer vehicle collisions PER DAY.

Obviously they all don't happen every day but they average that because they have over 40,000 of them every year.

Check the stats on the State webpages...
 
the spank said:
In the state of PA the road kill annual count is greater than the harvest rates for all of Ontario's deer seasons combined! Travelling the U.P in Michigan and across the top of Wisconsin we considered it a miracle when I drove transport back in the late 80's if we made our weekly journey to Biwabik Minnesota to pick up our load w/o hitting a deer. We used to joke we were going to put kill marks on the drivers door and hood like the fighter pilots of WWII.....after a while we bought those whistle's you mount on a fender that they came out with that supposedly chased the animals from the roadside and we went a long long time without seeing anything. Maybe just coincidence but the only time we would see wildlife with those on the truck was when they clogged with bugs, snow or ice. I don't know if they still make them or not but I believe they do work from my experience.
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i guy i know did the sticker thing :D he had 11 deer 1 gator and 1 eagle :eek:

thay pile up in the states big time ive hit one did not kill it right away only time i ever killed something with my hands called the game officer he taged it and i took it home
 
We were riding across Montana, Hwy #2 on the way to Sturgis. It was at dusk, and there were more frigging deer there, then there are seagulls at a beach picnic. Never have I seen so many.
 
laredo318 said:
We were riding across Montana, Hwy #2 on the way to Sturgis. It was at dusk, and there were more frigging deer there, then there are seagulls at a beach picnic. Never have I seen so many.
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We drove through from Missoula to Billings one morning a number of years ago and it was carnage on the highway. There was even a road killed deer in the mall area as you come into Billings. Of course, that highway is divided - one lane on either side of the valley with the river at the bottom between the highways. The deer were probably coming down for water.
 
My daughter and I were coming through NY State last week-end also and came upon two deer coming out of a ditch ready to jump. Luckily I saw them and laid on the horn which sent them back down into the ditch. Seems the deer did well this past winter.
 
Are people in the US not allowed to pick up roadkill (for food)?

Around here, roadkill deer don't last 5 minutes.

Yummm, venison sausage and pepperettes. ;)
 
Donny Fenn1 said:
I go as far as Fernie and we keep the kids amused by counting wildlife.
We have got as high as 400 deer and 280+ elk iirc?
It's awesome but some people just don't pay attention to wildlife at all...
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Your not even to the bad part yet. From Elko to Cranbrook or Canal Flats is the real roadkill alley. The highway runs right through the elk and deer winter range, so from October to may the highway is littered with animals. I see 2-3 dead deer every day on my 70km commute to work.
 
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