Who else has hit a deer, moose, cow or other large animal while pulling a boat?

[gim]

15 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

That’s a heckuva way to get a set of rattling antlers! 

They aren’t a huge set of antlers, but I have used them for that purpose on occasion.

[Bluebasser86]

Got real close to hitting a big bull pulling my boat down a country road at night once. It was a new moon, pitch black. My old truck had dim lights, even when the brights were on. One of those situations when you think something doesn't look right but not quite sure what you're seeing. The bull was jet black, head down and quartering away so I couldn't see any horn. He just blending it with the blackness around him. The alarms were already going off in my head that something wasn't right, so I'd already slowed down thankfully, so when I fully realized what I was looking at I didn't have to lock up my brakes. 

[Bubba 460]

7 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Got real close to hitting a big bull pulling my boat down a country road at night once. It was a new moon, pitch black. My old truck had dim lights, even when the brights were on. One of those situations when you think something doesn't look right but not quite sure what you're seeing. The bull was jet black, head down and quartering away so I couldn't see any horn. He just blending it with the blackness around him. The alarms were already going off in my head that something wasn't right, so I'd already slowed down thankfully, so when I fully realized what I was looking at I didn't have to lock up my brakes. 

 

Well this is no bull but I know that feeling and experienced that situation while driving one dark night. I was headed home after searching for Civil War relics. Pitch black night, you could not see your hand in front of your face. No other cars coming or going, no houses, not a electric light in sight. There was a person walking down the road on the edge of the asphalt with their back to me. They had on dark sweats pants and a dark hoody, virtually invisible. I was doing 65 mph (the speed limit) in a double lane county road.  I came within an inch of taking this dim-wit out. Scared the daylights out of me, never saw them until I was right on top of them. I swerved to the left but had they had been one inch closer it would have been all over. Still think about that night....