Lippy!

[Turbogus]

Decades ago when I was a ner'do well, just out of the military I was driving from town through a dark wooded area known as Highland Dell. My best friend and I were sharing a bottle of Vodka and just as we were in the Dell I felt a bang (didn't see what it was 'cause the bottle was in my face) I said "Damm Mike, I don't remember any potholes on this road!" he said "No, you just hit a deer!" Peering over the hood it was covered with the hairs of the deer, but not wanting any trouble and only a couple of miles to the farmhouse we headed in.

Following us by about 20 minutes was our friend Max, a little guy with bright red hair and beard and as redneck as they come. When he came along Highland Dell he saw the deer we hit, loaded it in the back of the J20 and headed our to the farmhouse. Speeding along the way the county Sherrif trailed him and pulled into the front yard right after him.
Peering into the back of the J20 the Sherrif asked Max "What's this deer doing in the back or your truck?"
Steely eyed Max said "This deer come in the yard and got lippy"......

Thanks to the angle iron/expanded metal brush guard the P.O. had mouted to this old Jeep CJ5 all that the impact did was ding a fender on the Steppenwolf Jeep

 

[mtnwhlr]

Great story. reminds me of a guy I knew some 30yrs ago he had a cabin way up in the mountains and drove a J20 with a big cattle guard on the front and going up and down the canyon he would go out of his way to hit a deer then throw it in the back and take it home those was some crazy times.

 

[tinhorn]

...he would go out of his way to hit a deer...

Not that hard--the darned things are suicidal. I used to live in deer country and when I spotted a herd off to the right, sure enough, they'd run toward the road and cross just ahead of me. Scary when it was too foggy to see them in advance. More than once I'd be straining to see the line in the road and--POOF--some stupid deer would flash through the headlights.

I only hit one deer. One night there was glare ice over EVERYthing so I was driving my 4x4 LUV with Goodyear F32s at about 30 MPH. Sure enough, I came over a small hill and there was a deer standing right in the road. I didn't dare brake but I did let off the gas and laid on the horn. Think the idiot deer moved? Heck, no. It just stood there (suicidally) staring at me closing in on it. (Now if I had been on foot carrying a rifle it would have been in the next county.) When I was about ten feet from it, it finally decided to get out of the road. Hahahaha! It couldn't get any traction on the ice! It's legs were pumping like pistons but it didn't move! Hahahahaha! Kapow!--knocked it right onto it's stupid deer butt.

 

[mtnwhlr]

I was driving my 4x4 LUV

I had one too it was my frist 4x4, had a lot of good times with that truck when I sold it the only things from the original truck was the frame, seat and the back bumper that had a dent from backing up a steep hill into a tree to let a 4x4 by on a trail.