Deer whistle

[gssuzukixxx]

I know of at least 2 guys who have had deer jump out in front of them causing them to crash. One guy was kill the other laid up in hospital for a long time.

Seem to me that there is some kind of whistle that you can mount on a vehicle that warns deer that you are coming. Does anyone know about this? Experience?

Brian

[UncleMike]

They don't work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_whistle

[bonanzadave]

When they first came out at $39.99 they musta worked. Now they're at the check outs for $1.99. Never had much faith in them.

Try this......(turn up your volume)

http://www.airhornsoftexas.com/Train_Air_Horns.php

[gssuzukixxx]

Thanks guys...I guess I will forget about that one.

Brian

[UncleMike]

Thanks guys...I guess I will forget about that one.

Brian

No problem. Just don't like to see money wasted on products from dishonest companies.

[OldVet66]

The good ones work for mules at least. I had a set om my Yamaha 20 valve cruiser years ago on each side of the radiator. We were on a poker run coming down a mountain, with a mule pen in a curve at the bottom. I'll never forget several hundred mule ears swiveling and tracking my bike like radar. They didn't react to the other bikes, so they must have heard something.

[UncleMike]

The good ones work for mules at least. I had a set om my Yamaha 20 valve cruiser years ago on each side of the radiator. We were on a poker run coming down a mountain, with a mule pen in a curve at the bottom. I'll never forget several hundred mule ears swiveling and tracking my bike like radar. They didn't react to the other bikes, so they must have heard something.

Were you riding the 1000? They just had good taste.

[makr]

Yeah, deer hitting is most unpleasant.

[tkent02]

I think the good ones work. One winter I used to commute over the Siskiyous from Oregon to California several times a week, mostly at night. There were deer everywhere. Mule deer and a few Elk, you really don't want to hit these big guys. I would usually see six to ten groups of them each night. Usually almost hit one at least once a week, a couple times it was way too close. I had installed huge wide angle lights to see along both sides of the road, but you can't see them all, especially the fast ones, and worse yet are the panicky ones. Installed some whistles, after that did not see many deer, maybe one deer every other week, and the few I saw were just standing there looking around, no hopping or running. Then as a test we went to a road along a field near where we lived where there are alway hundreds of deer around sunset, we had whistles in our hands, and held them up through the sunroof with about twenty to fifty deer in view. Every one within a few hundred yards stopped eating and looked around like WTF? Not panicking, not moving, just looking around trying to determine what the noise was.

I think probably the cheap copies don't work at all, they probably didn't even try to get the sound the same as the originals.

[Ricko19]

They used to have similar products over here in Oz for kangaroos. BIg problem on the highways at night, dusk, dawn. There used to be a product called 'Shooroo" you mounted on your front bullbar. Not sure if they had a version for bikes.

I have quite a few friends who have come to grief on the highway beacause of them - not good. Not quite as big as a deer tho!

[wkmpt]

A good friend's father told me that in order to get a deer, or critter of similar elk [sic--ha ha, get it? ilk?...anyway] to move away from you, you have to trigger any two of it's "panic" stimuli (sight, sound, smell, etc.). He explained that triggering one sense will, as you guys showed, get their attention, but not make them move away. So in essence, the whistles are only getting half the job done if there are deer near/on the road.

I was told your best bet is to flash your headlights/highbeams and repeatedly honk the horn because the doppler effect of the sound also gives a sense of motion, to spook them away from you.

Of course, all this means diddely if you come around a blind turn and there's Bambi's mom waiting for you in the middle of the road...

So that's what I've heard, anyway.

[themess]

Could be worse. In Arabia driving at night isn't recommended because camels cross the roads unpredictably. And camels are lots bigger than deer!

[tkent02]

I was told your best bet is to flash your headlights/highbeams and repeatedly honk the horn because the doppler effect of the sound also gives a sense of motion, to spook them away from you.

I suppose that might work for the ones you see soon enough. But they are not generally the ones you hit, are they?

Or do you just honk and flash all the way down the road, just in case?

[wkmpt]

I suppose that might work for the ones you see soon enough. But they are not generally the ones you hit, are they?

Or do you just honk and flash all the way down the road, just in case?

Well, I guess if we pass on the road of life someday, you'll know it's me...

...blinka honk blinka honk blinka honk...

[tkent02]

I was wondering who that was. :-)