This past season I shot 6 deer with the Barnes Vortex Tripple Shock ammo. Every single one of them was DRT.

Last night I hit a whitetail doe with a Nissan Titan. She dedided to Kamakazee into the front of my truck somewhere in Hwy 36, not far from Caldwell, TX.

"It was the last day of the hunt and we'd been hunting on the fillintheblank ranch".

(cut away here one of the other hunters) "Yeah, ryan had really been trying for this doe all season. We'd seen her several times on camera but she just wouldn't show herself."

(camera back on me)
Her head hit my bumper at 70mph, I thought I had her for sure but the dang thing came to after about 5 min and ran off. After it messed up my front quarter panel and door.

Flame me if you want, but I've never thought much of front quarter panel/door hits. Too many deer run off to die elsewhere and you are standing there looking at a dangling sideview mirror.

No sir, from experience I can tell you that front grill is a much better POI. If you can double headlight them, all the better. Only thing you got to be careful of with the full-on grill shot is an over-the-hood-ornament situation.

This just perfectly illustrates my view to "use enough gun". You're obviously a "stunt shooter" by using a Nissan. The last deer I hit was with an 18 wheeler. Now that sucker was "DRT". Turned him into goo.

Slowpoke you have the wrong attitude ! Skill and practice will enable you to kill the deer with little or no damage to the meat and little damage to the vehicle . I use a F-150 and last one just cracked the plastic grill a little bit !

Your Nissan needed a little more velocity!

What was the sectional density of your projectile? Those Texas does are pretty tough and need a premium projectile to put one on her back...

I haven't hit one in about 12 years. Actually got two with one shot! One hit the front quarter panel and the second hit the rear quarter panel of my little Ford Ranger. Truth be told they hit me! The only evidence left at the scene was a little slab of skin that was left in the seem between the door and front quarter panel. No penetration at all!!!

I must be missing something somewhere here! The only deer I have been able to get with a truck, the deer was hauling ass across the road and hit me in the drivers door. I didn't think it was fair cause I wasn't ready. I didn't even see it so I couldn't get lined up.

(wistfully thinking back over the hunt as I talk to the camera)

I guess if I'd just been a little more patient and give her another second or two I could have hit her dead center. But you know, that's huntin'.....I still want to thank my sponsor Ratchetwidgitthingy for goin' along on this hunt....

Thats why you never go for head shots

I don't care who ya are, that right there is funny

BTW I did the front quarter/door combo a couple years ago with my Dakota, didn't fair any better

I think that was an unethical hit.You should not have tried it.High fence or free chase????Did you look for a blood trail???Hope you were not poaching.has this happened more than once???Hope not !!!! Next time use enough Truck.Maybe a F350 Dually

Olbiker,
It was a free chase deer but there wasn't a blood trail. I thought she was dead at first, I even touched her eye with the toe of my boot. (insert footgear sponsor shot here)

However, after a few minutes she came to and started to get up.

I think I had the velocity, it was just a badly placed shot. I was going at least 70 and that is a 5.6liter V8, but it's only a half ton truck so that might have been my problem.

(cut away to another hunter talking the the camera)
"yeah, we tole Ryan he needed uh euF-3fiddy with a grill guard on the front and Bone Collector sticker on it if he was to want to kill more deer".....

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Originally posted by Ryan Campbell:
Olbiker,
It was a free chase deer but there wasn't a blood trail. I thought she was dead at first, I even touched her eye with the toe of my boot. (insert footgear sponsor shot here)

However, after a few minutes she came to and started to get up.

I think I had the velocity, it was just a badly placed shot. I was going at least 70 and that is a 5.6liter V8, but it's only a half ton truck so that might have been my problem.

(cut away to another hunter talking the the camera)
"yeah, we tole Ryan he needed uh euF-3fiddy with a grill guard on the front and Bone Collector sticker on it if he was to want to kill more deer".....

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Originally posted by Slowpoke Slim:
This just perfectly illustrates my view to "use enough gun". You're obviously a "stunt shooter" by using a Nissan. The last deer I hit was with an 18 wheeler. Now that sucker was "DRT". Turned him into goo.

Yup,

Ford F-350, tipped with a Ranch hand bumper welded to frame with four 1/2 x 4 x 12 steel plates.



I've yet to have one critter walk away.


GWB

Geedubya, I've got a Ranch Hand grill guard on my truck too, and it'll withstand a 70 mph deer impact, no problem!

I think it is those frangible Japanese bullets. Good looking, good velocity, but explode on the surface.
I hit a deer in my Toyota truck (back when they only made the truck that became the Tacoma). I was going about 45 and hit her right at the bumper/headlight/fender area. Buckled my bumper back up under the wheel well to where it was jambed up against the tire and I couldnt turn the wheel. Had to tie my tow strap to a tree and back up in low range to pull the bumper off the tire. $1,200 damage to my truck and the deer got up and ran off....

Might be over kill, but I,ve always liked a Kenworth with a moose guard a lot better.
Been prety fortunate in regards to disputes with moose over who has the right of way.
Did have a run in with a deer in the middle of the night in upper BC a few years back. May have been goin a lot faster than I should have been, did,nt end well for the deer.

Ryan,

Wanted to tell this story yesterday but I was driving and I just couldnt get it done on my iphone...

About 15 years ago I was working as a bartender in San Antonio and got off work around 2am. I drove home the back way and was going down a Farm to Market road that my grandfathers ranch was on to see how much the bucks had developed. It was late July and I had not yet been scouting.

Long story short, a doe runs out in front of me and I missed her but a young doe was following her and ran into my door and I though she had broken her neck. It was 2:30 in the morning, not a streetlight or house within miles. I was in the middle of nowhere! I got out my knife to kill it so it didnt suffer anymore and I had backed my truck off the road to give me a little light. The young doe was laying on the double yellow line. I was wearing a pair of shorts, and a white polo shirt and had no shoes on. I am also about 6'4", weighed 240lbs and at the time had a shaved head and was pretty well stacked. I kneel down, cut the throat of this doe and thats when I realized she did not have a broken neck. All hell broke loose! For some reason I never let go of the ear I had ahold of and she bled out all over me. It seemed like eternity as I was holding on to her but it probably didnt last 10 seconds but I stood up and was looking down at her as I was covered in blood. Literally head to toe, I had to look like something out of a horror movie and it was at that time I saw the car coming around the curve in the road.

I will never forget the whites of the guys eyes and the look of sheer terror on his face as he went by my and floored it.

We were headed from the Ruby to drop a friend at the Billings airport, just at dawn. A friend was driving my '99 GMC 1/2 ton. I was in the back seat and saw the 4 x 4 whitetail coming up the bank. Friend wasn't watching well. Mr. Buck took off the starboard side mirror rather cleanly. Friend was irritated when I told him I would pay half. Nice Chevy dealer in Billings had us on the road in an hour. Poor shot placement, pure and simple.

All i can say is some of you guys need to work on your aim!
When you can pick out one bird out of a covey of quail flying across the road and his him with the passenger side mirror at 80 mph, then you can call yourself a good shot. hehehe

Blew that bird away. All i found was a wing stuck to the front of the mirror and some guts on the passenger side window.

Now considering that i saw all the birds on the ground, then take flight, and start making a turn to fly across the hiway, you would think that I'd have been ready for the impact. Not quite! Then there is the passenger in the truck. Well, lets just say that it scared the sh!t out of my older brother, whom was asleep in the passenger seat.

Does an owl stuck in the passenger door mirror frame of a Freightliner count?

Birds ? I did lose a headlight to a grouse .The lucky hit was when I had my Alfa Romeo -85 mph, Nebraska ,pigeon flies across . I stop and look ,not windshield or grill /radiator damage !Incredible but not even a scratch only a 4" red stripe of blood along the length of the fender on my white car .

I hit a songbird once with the front aluminum wheel of my motorcycle.Guy behind me said it looked like a feather pillow exploded.

Songbirds and grouse? Mere childs play.

Now this guy knows how to do it up properly!



No tracking necessary. Good penetration too!

I took a bird strike from a raven right in the windshield of my 18 wheeler 20 odd years ago. It didn't do that much damage, but it did spiderweb the glass all the way across.

That guy must have downloaded a full pantload when that turkey hit.

I knocked a doe deer off her feet in an older body style Chevy caprice patrol car once. I "almost" stopped in time. It messed up the trim around the headlight, and broke the headlight lense, that was about it. She was up and gone before I could even step out of the car.

Ah geez. Another wild turkey and coke?..

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Originally posted by Muttly:
Ah geez. Another wild turkey and coke?..

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