I had a near miss years ago in north Alabama when we lived there. I was driving a little bitty Chevette, this deer ran across the road so fast I didn’t even have time to take my foot off the accelerator. Luckily the deer was going so fast I must’ve missed it by an eigth of an inch! Scared the hell out of me! But one of my sisters lived in Colorado for a while, had a good friend of her’s hit a mule deer. This guy had a big truck, the mule deer’s back was even with the top of his hood. Totalled the truck, he wasn’t hurt but the mule deer was killed. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!
This is a another good reason to carry a weapon. You could save the animal needless suffering if you need to.