Thursday evening, I hit a nice six pointer with my 4-Runner. Don't really know if I hit him or he committed deericide.
Was going about 30 on a gravel road and he came up out of the draw and I didn't see him until he was nearly in front of me. I got about 4-5 feet of hard braking, which probably made the deer hit square on the front instead of on the corner.
Bumper is bent in the middle and both sides of the frame rails, valance is thrashed, the lights in the bumper are busted, and the right fender is bent back a little at the bottom. Grill was fine, headlights are fine, corner lights are fine. Left headlight is out of adjustment, I figure because it is attached to the fender that moved back.
We have a farm/ranch and have bought enough parts that I have a wholesale account at a body parts store. I was thinking about just ordering a bumper, lights and valance and putting them on myself and when everything is apart, just pulling the fender back out. It doesn't have a hard crease in it.
Truck has less than 90K and is/was in excellent shape.
Anybody else had similar experience and any recommendations?
Thanks,
Kirk