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This is a deer-infested area, too, with critters up to 300 lbs. Then there's the Moose. A guy on a motorcycle hit one at the end of a 10,000 mile tour, 3 miles from home. He's permanently messed up. The 1st local vehicle I ever rode in got $3k of work done to a deer strike on one side, and two weeks later, got totalled by one on the other side.
I don't drive very often, but I saved my car with evasive action once, loosing only a parking light, but then lost the fender when one jumped into it from the side, from a ditch, behind a bush, with the sun at his back. Even if I'd seen it coming, I was on a low-traction gravel road. I'm figuring on adding a strong tube just behind the middle of the windshield to keep it moving the right way if I get one head -on.
Deer have zero traffic sense, and in rutting season, no natural caution either. If you see one, don't stare - scan for the others nearby.
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