Birdstrike

[Funnyman141]

I hit a decent sized crow with my dads 102 whip on his s10 going about 80ish
hehe it was funny to watch it spin

 

[MountainMike]

I was driving in my dad's Cherokee and we drove through a flock of sparrows, (you know when a thousand of them come from one tree) and prlbably got a dozen bounce off various parts of the truck and 2 or 3 stuck in the grill.

 

[Nater]

Haven't hit a bird, but nailed a bat in the Mustang. He hit dead center on the horse in the grill. Didn't notice till the wife came home from work the next day and said my horse was missing...Went outside to look (german kids think it's cool to steal the Mustang emblem for some reason) and found a bat spread out so much it was covering the horse....Just another reason why my car got nicknamed the Batmobile....

 

[RedneckSTX]

I've had several bird strikes myself, a few small birds that didn't do anything. But then there was the time I hit a 23lb. gobbler that had a 10.5in. beard, ol' tom turkey totaly destroyed my windshield, but his breast tasted great. Then another time when I was young and dumb, I was hauling @$$ out an old gravel road and when I popped over a hump in front of some farm house I plowed through a flock of chickens, the guy who lived there was sitting on the porch and saw the whole thing happen, I got stopped, turned around, and went back. Nothing happened to the truck, but it was covered with feathers and blood, I felt bad and had just got paid so I gave the old man $10 per hen, he said it had happened before but I was the first person who ever stopped. Anyways I gathered up all my dead chickens, went home butchered the ones that were still good, put some in the freezer, and the rest made fryed chicken for dinner that night.

 

[RedneckSTX]

I just remembered another bird stike, this past mushroom season I hit a Ruffed Grouse with the wife's taurus when we were on are way home from mushroom hunting, it didn't do anything to the car but cover it with feathers, anyways we had grouse and morels for dinner that night.

 

[Doom's Day Custom]

my mom was driving her blazer in toms river and she hit a big old seagull lol it was pinned to the windshield until it moved to one side of the truck and fell off

 

[Hopman]

It wasn't me, but a while ago my dad was driving for a local coach company. Well, he was coming home and hit a seagull dead on into the passenger side shield. Thoe coach 'shield are big suckers.

 

[AllanD]

dang allan good thing you had your shades on!

what did you have at 125? surely not your ranger?

Naaa... my commuter car of the time, a real "sleeper", a 1973 Dodge Dart with a lot of suspension work and a steel crank BB400 engine
That car would literally go fast enough that the front suspension would unload and start to lift off the ground from aerodynamic forces, that happened at just over 140mph.... scary when it happened the first time.

I drove that car because it was essentially invisible to the police
unless I was doing something really rediculous, and even then I had
(at the time) a 30mph plus speed advantage

My problem with the turkey was that there was a whole flock
of them, twenty plus, they were all flying taking off in formation
and the whole flock turned into the wind and immediatly bumped
higher in altitude, I hit the one especially stupid one that turned
the other way and actually lost altitude from hitting the tailwind

AD

 

[crawlin91]

Ive hit a few birds in my time behind the wheel. Once the girlfriend asked if we had hit a larger one that flew real low in front of the car, I looked in the rearview and saw one of the tires painting a red streak on the highway, I said nope, missed him.lol

Check out this interesting story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...edded-fender-dragged-600-miles--SURVIVED.html

 

[Doom's Day Custom]

Naaa... my commuter car of the time, a real "sleeper", a 1973 Dodge Dart with a lot of suspension work and a steel crank BB400 engine
That car would literally go fast enough that the front suspension would unload and start to lift off the ground from aerodynamic forces, that happened at just over 140mph.... scary when it happened the first time.

I drove that car because it was essentially invisible to the police
unless I was doing something really rediculous, and even then I had
(at the time) a 30mph plus speed advantage

My problem with the turkey was that there was a whole flock
of them, twenty plus, they were all flying taking off in formation
and the whole flock turned into the wind and immediatly bumped
higher in altitude, I hit the one especially stupid one that turned
the other way and actually lost altitude from hitting the tailwind

AD

i am almost sure that turkey don't fly really far and definately not in a formation because turkeys don't migrate south for the winter or at all!!!

 

[AllanD]

The turkey I hit with the Ranger and it was probably only planning going
a couple hundred yards... it didn't make it...

The Starling I hit with the Dart came apart...

I've also killed a couple of owls... they seemed to be interested in atacking my
roof mounted two way radio antenna

The first bent the tip into a question mark.
The second broke the top phasing coil off the antenna.

a $115 antenna shot to hell...
AD

 

[77'cj7]

Hit an owl with my ranger at about 70 or 80 on a gravel road. Clipped the top of my bumper, left a streak up the hood, and spiderwebbed my windshield inside and out. Luckily didnt throw much glass though.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

i am almost sure that turkey don't fly really far and definately not in a formation because turkeys don't migrate south for the winter or at all!!!

You've obviously never hunted them before, they will take off in formation at times, although they only fly short distances (long enough to get them past what they deem to be a dangerous area).



I can't ever remember tagging a bird with anything but my choptop. Although I did tear the front bumper off an Explorer in a junkyard once and had a dead robin fall out from the plastic. The bird I tagged with my choptop was an especially dumb chicken... I came thundering up over a rise on a back road and it was in the middle of the road with a bunch of others, they all ran off the one side and this one turned around an ran back right in front of me. POOF! Feathers everywhere. It appears my front diff got it.

 

[dirtsquirt]

So I spent thanksgiving with my granfather who has brain cancer in Ramona, CA(San Diego Area) and took off toward Arizona at 3 AM. I was doing about 80(my trucks top speed ) about 10 Miles west of El Centro, CA in the Imperial Valley when the biggest bird I have ever seen met my windshield. Besides spilling my coffee on myself and thinking the windshield was broken momentarily I was fine. The pass side of my winshield, where the bird hit is completly covered in cracks. I pulled into a gas station in El Centro and cleaned a bunch of blood and feathers off my truck and discovered my radio antennea slightly bent. has anyone ever had a similar experience?

A good friend of mine had an Owl, come thru the windsheild of his kenworth.
it hit him in the chest he had some cut's and 2 broken ribs.

 

[Mark_88]

So I spent thanksgiving with my granfather who has brain cancer in Ramona, CA(San Diego Area) and took off toward Arizona at 3 AM. I was doing about 80(my trucks top speed ) about 10 Miles west of El Centro, CA in the Imperial Valley when the biggest bird I have ever seen met my windshield. Besides spilling my coffee on myself and thinking the windshield was broken momentarily I was fine. The pass side of my winshield, where the bird hit is completly covered in cracks. I pulled into a gas station in El Centro and cleaned a bunch of blood and feathers off my truck and discovered my radio antennea slightly bent. has anyone ever had a similar experience?

Buy a lottery ticket...last time I hit a bird I won $3,000...