Don't Forget Deer Whistlers.

[Bigfoot]

I don't think he needs any help at all in finding things to run into Jeremy.

[Montreux_Blue]

I'm just trying to toughen him up a little....

[TexinMaine]

The Maine State Police tried them for about 5 years and then discontinued using them. Their study showed they hit just as many deer with or without them.

[Rstyduck]

I will not put Deer whistles on my bike or truck.
Ive ran them on my 18 wheeler and saw more Deer jump in front of me than ever before.
My friends also agree with this. I drove truck for 20 years.
But with that said, all it takes is one bug in it to stop it from working, so if you have them and theyve been on for more than a few days chances are they no longer work anyway and your telling people how great they are. LMAO

[madmax-im]

worthless crap! I'll tell you what works...my aftermarket exhaust! Every critter I see is running away from the sound especially when de-accelerating and the pipes do some backfiring...

[LoHo]

Riding along the PCH last year I saw the front of the SUV in front of me just explode, then two legal bucks scampered across the road to a meadow. I thaought, "Those are some tough deer! Get hit like that and keep going!" In a minute I saw #3 which was in a crumpled heap a few yards in front of all the shards of plastic work that fronted the SUV.

The whistles are like the guardian bells HD guys put on their bikes to ward off gremlins, mostly faith-based. They work great until you hit a deer.

[DGXSER]

I figured they were like hitting sticks together to keep the local alligators away!! Work great around here!! (The sticks that is)

[tcoop]

I figured they were like hitting sticks together to keep the local alligators away!! Work great around here!! (The sticks that is)

Thats why there are nomore alligators in Cincinnati(Or Ohio for that matter)

[Dragon Tamer]

Electronic Wonders

Yup,
Bought one of those electronic deer chasers a year or so back. They work just absolutley fine!!!!!!!! Had it on a switch that was on the fairing for something else and could turn it on or off easily. The first evening out we saw two deer standing in the ditch just watching the traffic, I turned it on and they started for the road right away to see what that noise was, if I turned it off they would stop and stare at me, turn it on and here they came again. Tried it several other times with the same results. I took it off the bike and it is now installed on my deer hunting rifle!!!!

[roadrider]

deer calls

I would love to try those deer calls , but in Montana you can't use deer calls

[Geezer]

Yup,
Bought one of those electronic deer chasers a year or so back. They work just absolutely fine!!!!!!!! Had it on a switch that was on the fairing for something else and could turn it on or off easily. The first evening out we saw two deer standing in the ditch just watching the traffic, I turned it on and they started for the road right away to see what that noise was, if I turned it off they would stop and stare at me, turn it on and here they came again. Tried it several other times with the same results. I took it off the bike and it is now installed on my deer hunting rifle!!!!

So where did you get this?

Geezer

[Kronk]

Don't work!

I am a voulenteer firefighter up here in Grande Cache, Alberta... A quiet little mountain town without another town within 2 hours. Last week we got a call, and when "MVC (motor vehicle colision) 67km south on highway 40, deer vs motorcycle" comes in over the radio, we always expect the worse. This old guy, around 65ish hit a deer, it came up over the front of his bike, hit him in the chest, bent him backwards over his backrest, landed on the pavement and died. He had 8 broken ribs in the back, 2 broken ribs in the front, a broken nose, he killed a deer with his chest, and managed to keep the rubber under him, and his face off the pavement... He drove another 5 minutes before finding a pullout, calling 911, and waiting for a half hour for us to get there!!! HE KEPT THE BIKE UP?!?!?!?! He was furius at his new electric deer whistles, and found the strength to pull them off and throw them on the road before we got there.

[Dragon Tamer]

There, let that be a lesson to them deer. Never fool with an old fart, if we ain't in the mood to fight, we will just kill ya.

The unit that I had emitted a warbling sort of sound that was supposed to run from the subsonic to the ultrasonic range and back down every few seconds. You could hear it as it passed between the inaudible frequencies. It sure got the animals attention but surely did not scare them. It was actually worse if you got near a flock of turkeys, they would turn into a flock of kids chasing the bell on the ice cream truck.

Geezer, as I recall I got that unit from Pep Boys or Checker Auto or one of those big box auto parts stores.

IMHO, I think any of the "deer chasers" make the whole situation worse as they lull you into a false sense of security. I have an old fashion "klaxon" type horn on the Fire Dragon and that seems to work as well as anything as long as I see the deer first!

[Geezer]

Now I want one even more. Were you able to make yours portable by running it of D cell batteries. This sounds like the best game call out there.

Geezer

[Ken Talbot]

"Back in the day", we used to resurrect the issue of deer whistles for our work fleet about every 5 or 10 years or so, usually when we got some new blood on our local safety committee. These were applied in pairs, with the theory going that the slightly different frequency of each whistle created some sort of harmonic beat frequency that would be heard at a greater distance, had more effect on the deer, etc.

If you blow into a brand new whistle, you can hear its sound, and the different frequency of each whistle. This is all well and good until the first time a bug goes up the throat of a whistle. That is the end of that whistle's sound, and any chance of harmonic frequency generation. Over the years, I've used a toothpick to remove bug bodies from more than a few whistles.

Recently, I've experienced riding in a group of four bikes, with one of the bikes with a set of brand new whistles. We did go by a few small herds of deer on the side of the road, and each time, the deer did seem to perk up their head and ears when the bike with the whistles came close.

Personally, I think the whistles may actually work if they are kept clean, and for the relatively small cost, they can't hurt. At the same time, I would not consider them as any kind of insurance, and will continue to scan the roadsides ahead.

YMMV...