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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: deer whistles
- Message-ID: <11847@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:43:24 GMT
- References: <93019.141656DCW1@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- In article <93019.141656DCW1@psuvm.psu.edu> DCW1@psuvm.psu.edu (Denise Wagner) writes:
- >
- >Has anyone ever tried the ultrasonic whistles available to keep deer from runni
- >ng in front of your car? I suspect they are something like the mosquito repel
- >lers that don't work.
-
- My dad and my brother both have them, and neither have hit a deer yet!
- They both live in a county where more than a thousand deer were hit
- last year, but there are hundreds of thousands of cars so who knows
- what the odds are. I will let you know if either of them ever hits
- a deer, since only a counter example will really answer your question.
-
- I can tell you that even the manufacturer does not claim that they
- work at less than highway speeds. They would be of no help in the
- wooded neighborhoods around here where there are a lot of deer but
- you are only traveling 30-35 mph.
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