I with I had been driving my truck last night.

[In The Ten Ring]

I hit a black bear on I 64 last night about 9:30 PM. I drive slow, at 55 mph, as it gets me much better gas mileage and reaction time. I saw it with enough time to slow to maybe 30 mph before impact. My car still runs, I drove it home, but I'll need a new hood and bumper cover. It's 13 years old so I am fearful of insurance totaling it out. (Honda Accord).

Had I been driving my 1972 Chevy truck, with stock bumper, Luverne grill guard, and 1/2 ton height, would it have shrugged that 200 pound bear off, assuming I had slowed to the 30 mph I did in my Honda?

What do you guys think?

*A lady in an SUV hit it after I did, totaling her Chevy Traverse and killing the bear.

The bear, after the hit by the SUV and one round from a deputy's AR 15.



My car. Insurance paid for it all but I did pay the difference on an OEM hood.

[trac209]

Hitting a two hundred pound bear would have done lots to damage truck too,and which do you value more? Obviously the truck or you wouldn't be on here. I don't know how your insurance works there but I'd just fix it myself if it's not too bad. Depending on deductible and insurance rate hikes etc. I'd rather total my daily then hurt mine I know that

[jeffahart]

I think your truck would have fared well against a small bear. 200 lbs on all fours. You probably would have ran it over. Most of the bears around where I live remind me of a big fat dog. Not that you see them very often, they stay pretty well run off into the hills around here.

Glad you are OK though... have a great Thanksgiving!

[Ol Blue K20]

Glad you're ok, better the honda than the truck in my opinion. Didn't realize you had a lisp lol. I think you meant wish instead of with in the title..

[swamp rat]

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20

Glad you're ok, better the honda than the truck in my opinion. Didn't realize you had a lisp lol. I think you meant wish instead of with in the title..

ROTF! Well I can attest that he has no lisp, just a southern accent.

[In The Ten Ring]

You guys! I noticed the "with" in the title but I couldn't edit it after posting.

I do have a southern drawl, when I let it show.

It was a crazy event. And had things gone differently, someone easily could have been killed.

I think my truck would have been OK......like jeffahart said, "run it over." Its head hit my front bumper cover (I saw it hit there and I saw the slobber mark) and its shoulder hit my hood. My car, I love my car, but it's 13 years old so this may total it out. I am weighing my options. If I let the insurance pay it off, I plan to take the money and buy another 1999 to 2002 Honda Accord but EX and manual.

I love these cars that much. Stay safe out there guys.

[EARNHARDT#3]

You can with in one hand and thit in the other and see which one fills up first LOL

Originally Posted by In The Ten Ring

You guys! I noticed the "with" in the

title but I couldn't edit it after posting.

I do have a southern drawl, when I let it show.

It was a crazy event. And had things gone differently, someone easily could have been killed.

I think my truck would have been OK......like jeffahart said, "run it over." Its head hit my front bumper cover (I saw it hit there and I saw the slobber mark) and its shoulder hit my hood. My car, I love my car, but it's 13 years old so this may total it out. I am weighing my options. If I let the insurance pay it off, I plan to take the money and buy another 1999 to 2002 Honda Accord but EX and manual.

I love these cars that much. Stay safe out there guys.

[In The Ten Ring]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

ROTF! Well I can attest that he has no lisp, just a southern accent.

When have we talked swamp rat? I assume we have!

Oh ya the "got a deer, used my truck" thread was on my mind last night! I didn't really "get the bear," the utterly freaked lady that was hyperventilating and vomited on herself with the now-totaled Chevy Traverse "got the bear." I just knocked it down, she killed it.

[iostorm]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

ROTF! Well I can attest that he has no lisp, just a southern accent.

I though this was a thread by Mike Tyson....

[special-K]

Originally Posted by iostorm

I though this was a thread by Mike Tyson....

Thut up thupid or I'll bite your ear...Thucker!!

[swamp rat]

Originally Posted by In The Ten Ring

I hit a black bear on I 64 last night about 9:30 PM. I drive slow, at 55 mph, as it gets me much better gas mileage and reaction time. I saw it with enough time to slow to maybe 30 mph before impact. My car still runs, I drove it home, but I'll need a new hood and bumper cover. It's 13 years old so I am fearful of insurance totaling it out. (Honda Accord).

Had I been driving my 1972 Chevy truck, with stock bumper, Luverne grill guard, and 1/2 ton height, would it have shrugged that 200 pound bear off, assuming I had slowed to the 30 mph I did in my Honda?

What do you guys think?

*A lady in an SUV hit it after I did, totaling her Chevy Traverse and killing the bear.

I think you would have had damage to your truck too, recall the post about a month ago titled "I got a deer...with my truck" He lost a fender, grill bumper and what else?

I'd rather loose a Honda than damage my classic truck.

[AirSpeed]

Originally Posted by swamp rat

I think you would have had damage to your truck too, recall the post about a month ago titled "I got a deer...with my truck" He lost a fender, grill bumper and what else?

I'd rather loose a Honda than damage my classic truck.

Yea, it caused a lot of damage, grill, fender, core support, radiator, fender well, bumper, bent my hood, frame, cowel, door and it was only a 120/140 lbs doe at about 50 mph. Also knocked the front end out of alignment. The final bill was $7500. They had to repaint the front half of my truck.

[sawyerrm]

that's the funniest thing I've read all day ...

[cypressbog]

Glad you are okay!

[REEDS 72]

I don't know never hit a bear before lol.

[special-K]

Thmathing into a thmall bear would hurt the bumper thome I think. The bruth guard dothn't protect the bumper, really. At leath not very muth. I think it would have thaved the grille.

[In The Ten Ring]

Originally Posted by special-K

Thmathing into a thmall bear would hurt the bumper thome I think. The bruth guard dothn't protect the bumper, really. At leath not very muth. I think I would have thaved the grille.

Is your autocorrect acting up?

(I sit here, knowing you are mocking me, but I also sit laughing and smiling).

[fartblossom]

A 200lb bear would be really small, wouldn't it? Hell, I weigh more than that.

[In The Ten Ring]

Originally Posted by fartblossom

A 200lb bear would be really small, wouldn't it? Hell, I weigh more than that.

Internet jokes and even insults have to get pretty bad (ie, actual threats) for me to get upset.

I guess the bear was about the size of two full grown German Shepherds. Wild animal bones seem very tough though. I think since I was hard braking and my front end was pitching downwards, that's why the hood took the brunt. I was perhaps doing 30 mph when I hit it. I am just glad I cruise at 55 and that I pay good attention.

I had already decided to put on the grill guard when the truck is running, but this incident cements it! The 1972 inner grill is weak as can be.

[fartblossom]

Originally Posted by In The Ten Ring

Internet jokes and even insults have to get pretty bad (ie, actual threats) for me to get upset.

I guess the bear was about the size of two full grown German Shepherds. Wild animal bones seem very tough though. I think since I was hard braking and my front end was pitching downwards, that's why the hood took the brunt. I was perhaps doing 30 mph when I hit it. I am just glad I cruise at 55 and that I pay good attention.

I had already decided to put on the grill guard when the truck is running, but this incident cements it! The 1972 inner grill is weak as can be.

Sorry if I upset you in any way, wasn't my intention. I'm sure hitting anything 200 lbs would cause a lot of damage. I just imagine bears as big honking 600 lb things, so I'm guessing one that small would be under a year old?

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by special-K

Thmathing into a thmall bear would hurt the bumper thome I think. The bruth guard dothn't protect the bumper, really. At leath not very muth. I think I would have thaved the grille.

[special-K]

Not really mocking. More like rolling with it. Thith thite is thomething Thpecial. We are all friends (I think? )

[Husker]

There's a video out there somewhere where they crash tested a 50 something Chevy and a 2000 something Chevy. Which do you think fared better?
Ron

[Husker]

Crash Test 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air VS. 2009...

[cherokeejohn]

Did you at least get to keep the bear. the hide would make a cozy winter seat cover, lol.

About 3 yrs ago i hit a 265lbs sow on I68 in western MD at around 4AM. I was in a 95 Chevy 3500 repo/snatch truck. It ran across in front of me and truthfully , I was "haulin a**", around 85 mph. I stomped the brake pedal but there was no way. I was coming down a steep hillside slope at interstate speeds with a repo in tow. The bear caught the front bumper on the drivers side and it was a head shot, so it was "lights out for the sow". Now, I was by myself and I don't believe in wasting a good bear so I brought it home for meat and hide. I couldn't pick it all the way up to put it up on the boom deck so i did the next best thing. i put a tarp in the front seat of the repo and rolled the bear in to the front pass seat. In the morning, our lot attendant has to log in all the repo's from the night before and do a full condition report, " including belongings left inside the vehicle. I waited around that morning just to hear the scream, lol and a scream i heard. She said she opened the drivers door and sat right in to record the milage and looked over and saw her life flash before her. I "with" I had taken pictures, lol