Hitch care

Oh boy you bring up a sore subject on deer whistles.  After my 4th deer kill with my '94 F-150 I was told by some locals, put on a pair of deer whistles, that will prevent you from killing all our deer (I had 4 deer kills in 3 years).  So I purchase and install them on the front bumper as per the instructions.  I truly believe (and the guys who sold me on this idea are now convinced) that it only exasperated the problem.  Like a trooper I continued to put on deer whistles on the front bumper after the previous deer kill would take them off.  Long story short, with deer whistles I was able to kill an additional 7 deer in 3 years and was out the money to keep replacing them.  So now here I sit with my '94 F-150 with 31 notches (deer kills) in the 18 years I have owned the truck.  I travel between 30-35 mph on my way to work (at 5:05 - 5:15 am) and only travel 5 miles to get to work, yet with 1 exception all the deer hit have been in the morning on this 5 mile jaunt.  And I'm not counting the ones I have hit and they limp/scamper/walk away.  Yes, I have killed more with my truck than with my rifle, kind of embarrassing.  At my place of employment the truck is appropriately called "deer slayer."  AND . . . . no more deer whistles.

Been there, done that.  After the first couple strikes, I was told to turn them the opposite direction, made zero difference.  Yes, these were auto deer whistles.  Funny thing, this is really a Ford tough truck, although my front bumper kinda looks like a twisted pretzel, I have never had it in to a body shop, even after 31 kills.  The worst damage I incurred was when I had just gotten the truck (company truck) and had it for 3 days.  It was during the rut and about 25-35 yards ahead of me I counted over 20 deer crossing the road, so I came to a complete stop.  During that time a deer came out of a cornfield on my left (traveling the opposite direction of the deer in front of me) and ran full tilt into the truck, just behind my door, made a pretty good size dent in the side.  It was laying down on the pavement, moving around in circles, I thought for sure it broke its neck.  As I got out of the truck, the doe proceeded to get up and limp off into the cornfield, as far as I know it lived.  I took the truck to the owners and showed them the damage, they shuddered as they hadn't put insurance on it yet.  I still am reminded of that hit today, as it never was fixed.  I have hit mostly all does, only a few were bucks.  Maybe I should try to get a few pics of this fine old truck and post it for you all to see.  It is in pretty rough shape but still runs fine after 307,000 miles with a 5.0 L V-8 and manual stick shift.

haha, my airbag has never deployed and it has one, when I got the truck in 1998 the airbag light on the dash was flashing on and off.  18 years later it is still doing it!  The guys at work have threatened to do that to the truck, at this point it would look like some of the football helmets with all stickers on them.  The owners of the golf course I work for haven't gotten me a new or newer truck because they know that one hit would probably toast a new truck.  This one has a heavy duty chrome bumper that is probably 3/8" thick steel, and it sits quite high as well, a bit higher than the new ones.

Deer whistles don't seem to do any good and they cause pan to lots o other wild and domestic animals.

Ah venison!!