We live in rural MO Ozarks and my wife works third shift. I bought an F150 that had been crashed in the right front. I banged out the fender pretty close to it's original shape. Two weeks later, a deer ran into the front right. I banged out the fender again. A month later a deer ran into the front right again. She ended up sliding in the snow and hitting a tree so we took it off the road and got a Chevy truck. Two weeks later, a deer slammed into the right front corner. We now have a Ford Focus and right after we got it, I grabbed a pair of noise makers that are supposed to alert a deer. Within a month, a deer slammed into the driver's door. When I worked in Springfield, a deer totaled an F150 work truck of theirs. A month later, one totaled a co-worker's Caddy. Yeah, we have some deer out here.
—”Yeah, we have some deer out here.”
A coworker that lived about 50 miles into the Illinois cornfields.
His choice was the Illinois $$$ TOLLROAD that is mostly fenced off and fast or driving a bit slower through the cornfields.
He was always on the lookout for mechanically sound larger cars with not so much of a body.
He liked to keep a backup ride for deer season.
Brother you are a deer magnet! I live in Springfield. I drive all over Christian County five days a week. I’ve never hit (or been hit by) a deer. I chalk it up to dumb luck rather than skill.
Sounds like Missouri needs to make F150s a legal hunting weapon.
B. F. Goodrich T/A KO2 LT Class C are not annoyingly noisy—but the deer really hear them and avoid the vehicle. Gives a much better result than “deer whistles.” Testimonial from wife’s driving experience with deer over a decade of use. No deer crash events whatsoever. They run away.
Not a mud tread tire as these do not clear gumbo properly—good to withstand the sharp broken shale backroads of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. Also the “three peaks” give excellent grip on the occasional snow.