Is the Turbo a Deer Repellant

[Alan Reagan]

Coming to work this morning at 5:00 I saw two deer approaching the right shoulder. Normally they just dare one another to jump out there and trash a vehicle but they stopped and ran back into the woods. I wonder if the turbo has the same effect as those little plastic whistles that are supposed to stop deer from running in front of you. Anyone hit a deer with one of these trucks?

------------------
2001 HO 6 spd 2500, 4. 10 LSD, Towing Package, Electric Brakes, SPA EGT/Boost Gauges, Fog Lights, Real Backup Lights, Molded Running Boards

 

[Doc Tinker]

I did and it wasn't pretty.

The deer jump out of the path of a semi into my lane and BOOM! Ground deer meat was spread all over the place.

The truck in the other lane must have had a bigger turbo and the deer decided to go for the little turbo.

Doc

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I've hit deer twice with mine - 10 years in Michigan without hitting a deer, I get my dream truck and I hit two in a year and a half! I was thinking the turbo was a deer attractant! #ad


-Steve

 

[Alan Reagan]

Doc... You don't mean it. Steve... . say it isn't so. They dart in front of my wife occasionally up at the lake. Fortunately, the speed where she runs up on them is only about 35 so she has time to slow or stop and hasn't hit one. I hope I don't jinx myself here but none have run in front of me in that area. I thought it might be the whistle of the turbo keeping them away.

 

[Joe G.]

Alan,

A deer cost my insurance company $1100 to fix things last year so turbos definitly don't scare them away.

------------------
Joe George
Eureka, CA

'95 2500 CC auto 4X4,3. 54,Combo EGT/boost guage,custom switch panel,PacBrake,TST #5,DTT TC/VB,Automatic motorhome steps on both sides,Foldacover hard bed cover,Cummins chrome kit,Black steel grill guard,Front hitch receiver

 

[GeneA]

The best repellent I have used is to find a 18 wheeler going your direction at a speed you can live with and get in behind it--not so close as to p*** him off but just close enough so one of those bambi's can't jump in between .

------------------
98. 5 24v 3500 2wd 3. 54 lsd pyro & boost in A pillar DD1's E-brake by Jacob U. S. Gear over/direct O'Reilly Air Horns 105 gal aux tank 35' Prowler 5th wheel with three slides Firestone air helper springs

 

[Doc Tinker]

Steve StLaurent was behind me when I did the hit. I think it was a setup, but at least he got deer burger all over his truck. That was after he almost plowed into the back of my truck when I wore 4/32nds off my tires trying to stop. He was back there choking from all the rubber smoke and couldn't see my brake lights through the smoke.

Doc

 

[BLACKRAM]

#ad
#ad
Actually I think the deer know the Dodge is an awesome truck and just want a closer look. #ad
#ad


------------------
1999 2500 4x4, auto, 3. 54 LSD, HD241, Quad cab SLT, Blk Sport Pkg, 16x8 Eagles, 285 Bridgestone AT, Bilsteins, 100% Amsoil, 80/100w lights, Valentine One, DTT TC/vb, Mag-Hytek trans pan, DD2's, DD TTPM, Isspro gauges.
1992 SC400
1978 Mooney 201 IFR

 

[Bigsaint]

I rolled over a Whitetail, 3 days before my grill guard went on. Happily, no damage (to the truck, the deer was toast). Cabelas sells a electronic deer device, anyone ever tried it ? Just wondering, if you turn those plastic deer alerts around 180 degrees, would they attract deer? #ad


Scott W.

[This message has been edited by Bigsaint (edited 04-11-2001). ]

 

[DennyDay]

Bigsaint -- I bought that electric deer warning from camping world, and have used it for three years with good effect, won't work on cows but does annoy dogs, but squirrels just keep comming! (Goats don't like it either)

------------------
Denny
'99 2500 4X4 White short Q cab to much added to put here

 

[QRTRHRS]

I first used the deer whistles after reading about a rural police force reducing damage with them. Although no one has ever to my knowledge proved that they worked, I think they do. I used to run this run road that was akin to running the guantlet under normal conditions. Then a consortium of power companies built a reservoir and displaced a lot of deer. Still no deer hits. I used to see them munching along the road and look up as I came on to them. Oftem as not, they would head the other way. We got a guy who picks up the carcasses for the state here that claims just the opposite however. So who knows.

Anyway, I picked up a set for the Dodge after I bought it and promptly misplaced them. Perhaps I payed for that indiscretion last January when I creamed a doe doing about 70. $1600 later... Still didn't find the darn whistles either.

 

[illflem]

The State Patrol cars in WA state are all equipped with deer whistles, if that means anything. People I know that have them say they work.

 

[RKohn]

Steve,

It must be the neighborhood. Guy I work with lives in Sarenac and drives to Battle Creek has bopped 2 with the 1500 he's had since September.

He wants a CTD now because of the built in deer whistle. #ad


------------------
Y2K Red Stealth Sport 2500 4X4 QC SLT+, 5-spd, 3. 54 LotsaSpinDiff, 265-75-16 LTX's, DC's dead cow/vinyl interior and 4-wheel AnythingButStop brakes, Roll-N-Lock bedcover, Smittybilt stainless nerf bars. Silencer ring?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

It is at least somewhat the neighborhood RKohn. Doc hit his when we were going to a GLTDR get together in Indiana on I-69 S about 15 miles south of Lansing. I hit mine about 8 months later coming back from a GLTDR get together in Indiana on I-69 N about 20 miles south of Lansing!! That road is well known for deer strikes, you run the gauntlet if you drive that road in the early morning hours. That's why I let Doc run blocker for me #ad
!

-Steve


[This message has been edited by Steve St. Laurent (edited 04-13-2001). ]

 

[Alan Reagan]

This may be an error of correlation but it sounds like deer are only hit when you attend a GLTDR event. Maybe you should switch and come to an SETDR event. None of us have hit a deer going to or from a get together #ad
. Like those the other morning... they just ran up to the shoulder, looked at that whistling RAM coming at them and they stuck their little white tails in the air and ran back in the woods.

 

[Bad340fish]

You guys have to remove the silencer ring to activate the Holset Deer Repelant System. lol I have no idea if that works or not, I just noticed that nobody mentioned it.
Bigsaint, If they work both ways then we should have deer chasing us LOL. Glad they don't lol
Clark

 

[rmrc]

We have alot of deer along a strech of highway near the house. Over the years, I've accounted for two of the little (big) critters. I usually drive to work in the very early hours of the morning. One thing that I've noticed is if you keep your high beams on (and any other extra lights), it seems to put the deer into a momentary trance untill you pass by. Just watch out for the driver on the other side of the road!!!

 

[Doc Tinker]

Yeah... And Steve told me to drive 75 mph, so he could check his speedometer (likely story #ad
). If I drove like I usually do, I would have missed the deer and Steve would have hit him. Or maybe wwcd2 would have had a face full of deer. #ad


Doc

 

[Bigsaint]

Denny, thanks for the reply. I was thinking of adding one for my "deer erradication system" which now consists of a grill guard and Pyscotty air. I know the local dogs don't like the pyscotty, they go crazy when I pass with the turbo spooled up #ad


Bad340fish, LOL at them chasing us, but wouldn't that happen if we only drove in reverse ? #ad
Also, no good on cows ? How about horses ? We seem to have a regular problem with both getting loose from the local farms, although few ever get hit, fortunately.


illflem, we used to have all of our line cars equipped with those plastic whistles. Seemed to work okay but the eventually fell off and were not replaced. They seem to loose their efectiveness at high speeds, had one guy hit a deer at about 80 mph one night while in a chase (back when we still could chase). He escaped unscathed(sp), the car, a 1988 then new Chevy Caprice was destroyed and I believe the deer set a new record for the standing long jump after impact.

Scott W.

 

[DieselDoghouse]

Those little plastic whistles supposedly work but they get plugged with bugs pretty fast. I have tried a new device that's electric from a company called XP3 (the Hornet) supposedly used on alot of emergency vehicles (company's words) is continually produces high frequency that warbles as you drive. Am on my 3rd replacement now-supposedly I submerged-not soaked- the unit (would have needed a conning tower!) or it took a voltage spike ('cause they didn't design in surge protection??) so its now fed from an regulator chip I rigged. I think I shoulda just gotten a PA permit and let my pawed pals do the job!! Hey, what about a deer deterrent that does bark!!!