I want a Deer Proof Bumper!

Jeger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:29 pm

Dear all who are working on bumpers for 05+ KJ's.

I just hit a deer this morning, thankfully I was not driving the CRD, the car I was driving has now hit three deer, 2 by me 1 by my wife. It had a dented fender a busted headlight the first time, bent up hood, scratches across the roof second time, and now it has a twice dented fender another busted marker light, no passenger side mirror scratches on passenger side, and deer poop in the door handle. :shock:

I DONT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN TO THE JEEP :evil:

So whoever makes the bumper that will best protect the front of our CRD from those pretty little deer that like to trash my vehicles, is the one that will get my money. (when I get it)

I have never been deer hunting...I think its time to start.

dirtykj · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:32 pm

What happened to the deer?

Jeger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:35 pm

dirtykj wrote:

What happened to the deer?

Oh, thats the best part, it got up and ran off, apparently with my mirror stuck in it somewhere, cause I couldnt find it anywhere.

LIBAR8R · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:50 pm

Jeger wrote:

dirtykj wrote:

What happened to the deer?

Oh, thats the best part, it got up and ran off, apparently with my mirror stuck in it somewhere, cause I couldnt find it anywhere.

FastTRX · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:58 pm

Jeger wrote:

I have never been deer hunting...I think its time to start.

LMAO!!

Don't you love it when they just decide last minute to run out in front of you?! Glad it wasn't the Jeep...that would have made for one bad day!

nolakj · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:15 pm

Jeger wrote:

and deer poop in the door handle. :shock:

Sorry to laugh but that is just about the funniest darn thing about the whole mess. Sorry for your bad luck with deer. I would definately start hunting them.

raceinfan · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:49 pm

nolakj wrote:

Jeger wrote:

and deer poop in the door handle. :shock:

if you were about to get hit by a car you'd poop yourself also :lol:

glad your alright though,I had an incident a few years ago at 3 am 6 of these buggers come running across the road I hit the last one ,it spun around in a complete 360 fell,got up & took off,luckily I had my truck at the time so no damage but scared the beejesus out of me :shock:

Edwin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:45 pm

That's what you call gettin the brown stinkies knocked out of ya.

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:18 pm

Last was one that I hit was about 3 in the morning, I was eating the tenderlions for breakfast, showed him! I think it took a week to wash off all the sh ** off the truck though. Of course the bumper, grill was trashed, but it sure tasted good. BAD PART, I had just taken a week off to deer hunt and never got a shot off! This was after the last day on the way home!

CaKJFreedom · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:12 pm

Well on the good side, you did come home with a deer.

moose · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:19 pm

CaKJFreedom wrote:

Well on the good side, you did come home with a deer.

That's what I need to add for the Moab BBQ!!!! Now if my daughter and I can just get one again this year...

Cowcatcher · **Posted:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:59 pm

I have about 15 in my pasture if you would like to come get them!!!!

I have never hit a deer.............but I have had two run into me. That sucks!

About 10 years ago we had an incident where a fellow was driving home from work one evening in a small car on a fairly crowded highway. A pickup traveling toward him hit a deer and it flew ahead into the other guys windshield and through it. Killed him instantly.

Back to the subject, I want a front deer filter on my CRD too.

desertkj · **Joined:** Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:24 pm **Posts:** 677

I'm so glad we dont have that many deer in AZ (the only ones that could really do some damage are up north). However, some friends of ours hit a cow in their F-150 while they were leaving the lake one night. The truck actually fared pretty well considering (it got repaired). But anyways, I thought that ARB was working on a brush guard for the newer front ends.

USAFCOP · **Posted:** Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:13 am

Well, as far as a deer proof bumper, that is like saying you want a bullet proof vest or rain proof tent... They will all be more resistant, but noe are "proof" For this purpose, I would have to say the ARB would be best as it sticks out the furthest, but If you want one of the others with the closer steeper approach angles, they may help you, but you will still most likely get a cracked grill at least... all depends on speed and size of animal.

Wasatch15 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:52 am **Posts:** 242

I have the ARB, have been in 2 accidents with it, the only thing that happened to my Jeep at all was a few scratches on the bumpers paint. If you want a picture of the first accident (damage to a Fifth Avenue car) e-mail me at wasatch15@aol.com

Ron

iceman7311 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:05 am **Posts:** 22

i want to see pictures and im sure others would like to also. can you post them?

Jeger · **Posted:** Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:14 am

iceman7311 wrote:

i want to see pictures and im sure others would like to also. can you post them?

I suppose I could, remember this car (it wasnt the KJ) has hit 3 different deer, no bodywork has been done to it. I have replaced the headlight and beat the hood till it would latch, and fixed the vacuum line for the brake booster due to hitting deer. Now I will have to remove/beat the fender so the passengers side door will open, but nothing has been "fixed", so it is not pretty :lol:

I will see if I can get some tonight or tomorrow evening.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:12 pm

Well if you want to start hunting deer the best weapon is a vehicle at night with the headlights on or find some high tech bullets that have headlights and only go 65MPH,that'll get'm good :lol:

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