How High Can a Whitetail Jump?

[msinc]

I have shot a few near a fence that would slingshot them back in play. Lol

Deer stats:
Run 45mph
Leaps 30’
Jumps 11’

This might count for being slingshot back into play...Many moons ago I shot at one with my bow. I was about 6 feet away from this buck and I missed {ought to be ashamed to tell it!!!} the deer ran face first into a big white oak and fell there...graveyard dead. Talk about going from feeling down to feeling happy in a matter of seconds.....it had to break his neck because he never moved when he piled up.

 

[snert]

I can't attest to how high they jump...but...
My Sheriff once responded to a motorist in distress on a county road. Upon arrival he learned it to be a simple car/deer (doe) accident. The doe lost. He parked and was talking to the motorist when he heard a loud thud. He looked back at his SUV and a buck had run from the woods and slammed into the side of it, denting the passenger door , breaking antlers and discombobulating the buck.

We got a lot of cartoon mileage out of that one.

 

[DirtySteve]

I saw a large buck running full speed up a steep him jump a 8 foot fence with out a problem. He was motivated by my cousins German Shepard(King) chasing him. King was towing a logging chain and a cement block at the time. The block was moments before holding up the back end of the chicken coop. He was a hell of a dog. He not like my dad. lol..

 

[DirtySteve]

I can't attest to how high they jump...but...
My Sheriff once responded to a motorist in distress on a county road. Upon arrival he learned it to be a simple car/deer (doe) accident. The doe lost. He parked and was talking to the motorist when he heard a loud thud. He looked back at his SUV and a buck had run from the woods and slammed into the side of it, denting the passenger door , breaking antlers and discombobulating the buck.

We got a lot of cartoon mileage out of that one.

I had a young buck run into the side of my car while driving. Knock the deer simple. lol.. It may be more common than we thing.. Ever get an unexplained dent?

 

[thekriebles]

I had a young buck run into the side of my car while driving. Knock the deer simple. lol.. It may be more common than we thing.. Ever get an unexplained dent?

Had a similar experience with a doe running into my moving car on the passenger side. She hit hard into the rear edge of my front fender well, bounced off, and then continued running in the direction she came from. I was going about 50 mph, and she didn't skip a beat. It's amazing what they can endure.

 

[luckeeshot]

I was driving in Idaho a few weeks ago and saw an extraordinary event. You know those drivers who drive way too slow until you get to a passing lane, and then they take off like a bullet so you can't pass? It was one of those situations where 4 cars didn't quite make it past the lead car, so they were all bunched up together at the top of the hill when the lanes merged. I stayed a ways back, waiting for some type of collision

Unbeknownst to any of us, there was a good-sized buck in the woods next to the merging lanes, and he was running for his life. He leaped over the guard rail into traffic just as the last two cars arrived, and I hit the brakes. No sooner had the buck landed when he jumped again to avoid getting hit. Without any momentum and going slightly uphill, that buck cleared a newer model VW beetle going at least 60 MPH and landed on the other side unscathed. There was at least two feet of daylight between the buck and the roof of the car. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it.

I was thinking of putting up a 10-foot fence around my future garden and orchard to keep the deer out. Now I'm thinking that might not be tall enough.

this is easy , don't allow 60 mph VW's scaring the daylights outa deer

 

[KMart]

This might count for being slingshot back into play...Many moons ago I shot at one with my bow. I was about 6 feet away from this buck and I missed {ought to be ashamed to tell it!!!} the deer ran face first into a big white oak and fell there...graveyard dead. Talk about going from feeling down to feeling happy in a matter of seconds.....it had to break his neck because he never moved when he piled up.

You must be a meat hunter. You didn't mess up any meat!!

Did you have to use a tag, since YOU didn't kill it?

 

[KMart]

I had a young buck run into the side of my car while driving. Knock the deer simple. lol.. It may be more common than we thing.. Ever get an unexplained dent?

Yes on the dent. But usually alcohol induced.

 

[Immike]

This might count for being slingshot back into play...Many moons ago I shot at one with my bow. I was about 6 feet away from this buck and I missed {ought to be ashamed to tell it!!!} the deer ran face first into a big white oak and fell there...graveyard dead. Talk about going from feeling down to feeling happy in a matter of seconds.....it had to break his neck because he never moved when he piled up.

Had a older buddy shoot one with his crossbow and it ran downhill on ice right into a hedge Apple tree. I saw the impact from another ridge and had to get over there to see the damage. It knocked a antler off when it slammed into the tree, what a bloodbath on the ice you could see every drop. I followed it back to his stand and said come on we’re done! Last day of the season and was his last kill. Damn exciting day!

 

[msinc]

You must be a meat hunter. You didn't mess up any meat!!

Did you have to use a tag, since YOU didn't kill it?

Yep, I had to check it in. But really it was a matter of that being the "easiest" way. I probably could have fought it, but since you can harvest something like 36 deer a year here....it really didn't matter. I usually only kill one nice deer a year anyways.

 

[blackwidowp61]

I can't attest to how high they jump...but...
My Sheriff once responded to a motorist in distress on a county road. Upon arrival he learned it to be a simple car/deer (doe) accident. The doe lost. He parked and was talking to the motorist when he heard a loud thud. He looked back at his SUV and a buck had run from the woods and slammed into the side of it, denting the passenger door , breaking antlers and discombobulating the buck.

answer 1 - Maybe the sheriff shot a relative of the buck?
answer 2 - Refer back to the aoudad story...maybe the buck just wanted to plow his way through the cruiser to the other side of the road?
answer 3 - Did the cruiser just get a wax job? Maybe the buck saw a rival and...
answer 4 - With some LEO vehicles getting more and more graphics to stand out, maybe this one was camouflaged or had a deer on it?
answer 5 - Was it a K9 unit? Maybe the dog barked something the deer didn't like?

 

[North Fork]

Well if you have moose in your yard they don't jump over the fence they just knock them down

 

[clunker]

Well if you have moose in your they don't jump over the fence they just knock them down

Yep! I've seen that with my own eyes too. A friend of mine in north Idaho has an orchard with a 10' chain link fence, and supplemented by electric wires. A huge moose cow and her calf were feasting. She just walked right through the fence. That's the first time I've ever seen an animal so large that it had to lower its head to eat the tree. I don't really have a strategy for keeping the moose out until I figure out how to tame a dragon.

 

[Webster]

I was driving in Idaho a few weeks ago and saw an extraordinary event. You know those drivers who drive way too slow until you get to a passing lane, and then they take off like a bullet so you can't pass? It was one of those situations where 4 cars didn't quite make it past the lead car, so they were all bunched up together at the top of the hill when the lanes merged. I stayed a ways back, waiting for some type of collision

Unbeknownst to any of us, there was a good-sized buck in the woods next to the merging lanes, and he was running for his life. He leaped over the guard rail into traffic just as the last two cars arrived, and I hit the brakes. No sooner had the buck landed when he jumped again to avoid getting hit. Without any momentum and going slightly uphill, that buck cleared a newer model VW beetle going at least 60 MPH and landed on the other side unscathed. There was at least two feet of daylight between the buck and the roof of the car. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it.

I was thinking of putting up a 10-foot fence around my future garden and orchard to keep the deer out. Now I'm thinking that might not be tall enough.

http://wildlife.ohiodnr.gov/Portals...ructions/NASAPlumbrookArcheryInstructions.pdf

Years ago I read an article about the NASA Plumbrook Research Center near Sandusky Ohio (6400 acres). I believe the research center has been closed for many years but it is still owned by the NASA. They chased all of the deer off of the site and put up a 10’ fence. Several years later the grounds were infested with deer. They have a drawing for bow and gun hunting on the facility grounds.

I have personally witnessed while bow hunting a deer jumping over a cluster of bushes about 7” high and about 8-10” wide without any effort. A 10' fence would probably work. There's easier grass to eat.

 

[Immike]

A runoff ditch gives most of the trouble to the big pen guys. Debris can wipe out the wire during a rain and let them all out. I agree ^ 10’ would keep them from trying.

 

[onelastshot]

They cannot only jump incredibly high, they can also jump extreme distances. I was up in a tree stand when a few doe came through. Off to the right of the tree stand was a tree blow down that had to be 15-18 feet across. One of the deer decided that something was wrong, snorted and jumped the blow down. Three other deer followed. I just sat there shaking my head, I had no idea they could jump that far.

 

[Bojo]

Amazing at what they can do. I've also seen them swim Redbank creek during flood stage in the spring . They cross it like it's nothing .

 

[Tommie]

Know which animal can jump higher than a house?

All of them. Houses can’t jump.

 

[rebel]

Maybe one of these would keep them 'maters safe

 

[Bojo]

Maybe one of these would keep them 'maters safe

Need these at the new wall when it's built