[javadog]

I had one year when I had three near misses, nothing before or since. Two were extremely close calls. The first one was in one of my quattros and the rear hooves of the deer kissed my windshield as it cleared the car. The second two were the same day, in the TR. One the way to dinner in a rural steakhouse 2 hours away, I passed through a herd of deer crossing an empty two lane road. Coming back, took a different route down an undivided 4 lane highway and had to do the mother of all swerves at 80mph to miss it. Left tire marks in all 4 lanes.

Nothing since, although I see them daily traveling to and from my sisters house that I'm remodeling. An entire herd live in her neighborhood, they're everywhere.

Worse than the deer was when I was in a group of 5 motorcycles doing warp two, nose to tail in the middle of nowhere on the nightly summer coffee run we did back in the day and an entire pack of coyotes passed through our group, running at full speed. Nobody hit anything.

Back in the 80's, when I managed the body shop at the dealership, I'd write at least one deer total a day this time of year.