Tonight I was calibrating my Predator on our local back roads. It had been a glorious warm, sunny fall day with temps in the 70's.
At 8:22 PM, after coming out of a sharp 90 degree left hander with the autostick in second gear, I blasted into the night darkness flat out and pulling hard in third gear when it happened.
A white-tailed deer, a large buck similar to the pic below, trotted out from the left into my path.
God bless HID lights!
I swerved right onto the narrow gravel shoulder and just as quickly back up onto the asphalt. Even with the ESP partially disabled, the big SRT8 never missed a beat. One more Deer - Car collison avoided. That buck must have run well over 250 lbs!
Fortunately, for the deer and me, we both escaped the blood, guts and gore that too often happens on our roads here at this time of year. A few years back a good neighbour died, when a buck was thrown through the windshield of his large BMW SUV, and impaled him in the neck.
One never knows what each day will bring . . .
