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RE: The Antlers of Ocampo - Beautiful Sunday
It is very fascinating how people live on different sides of the world. Must be a big deer to total a car during the collision. I'm thinking that a lot of vehicles there install bull bars to lessen damage to vehicles. You mentioned you saw deer grazing in a farmer's field. Hope they are not becoming too much of a problem for farmers.
The farmers build the deer into their business model. They lose so much per year on deer feeding, but they know that going in. And it's fairly predictable.
Yes, a good size deer can do some damage. My mother-in-law just spent $5,000 repairing her front end because of a deer. A lot of people just drive bigger vehicles. I hit one once driving a Suburban. A HUGE deer ran out in front of me, trying to cross the road, and I couldn't stop in time. I smacked him with my front grill. The only damage was a punctured radiator, which I noticed a couple of days later. The deer didn't walk away.