Deer/bear resistant front bumper, what do you like?

Just recalled, I was working in my garage one day and periodically had to check how the watering was doing in my garden. One end of my chicken pen was open to the garden as I'm between chickens. I scared up a young buck who ran into the pen. I went in, going around one side of the coup to scare him out. In the few seconds to get around the coup, the poor buck had tried to run through the chicken wire fencing and was kicking on the ground, scared to death I guess. Poor feller.
Duane

 

Sorry to disagree with you on this but I have had these on two different trucks and both have taken a deer strike. The Ranch Hand grille guard did more damage to the truck than the deer would have without having it. In my opinion it is full replacement bumper or nothing.

 

I have hit deer and a few pigs in Texas in a full size f-350 service truck. One of which destroyed the egr radiator and bent the bumper @ about 55-60 mph. I cant imagine the cost of a deer strike on my 2016. A stout bumper is on my list

 

One of the pigs actually got hung up on the underside for a bit

 

Made my own... The same style as my 2007, tagged 3 Upstate NY deer with it no damage to the truck.

 

I sent a message to Relentless in NV since they are close to where I live, production is way out there and checked prices, up there also. Will do more checking, this has gotten me moving. Too much going on, got that old persons procedure done yesterday, sold the Civic, have a meeting to get insurance going for April since I'm retiring early at 62.5 March 31. Gotta go camping on the weekends, busy boy.
Duane

 

Congrats, I'm 23 and ready to retire

 

So I did some digging on the ARB site : They don't have a 2016+ bumper listed .... is that ^ the first prototype ? ...or are there
some North American ARB dealers that have these already even if not listed on the ARB site?

 

Hogs are like hitting a concrete barrier they do some damage.

 

While we're on the subject of hitting animals in vehicles...

 

I noticed many online stores have no drop down for 2016 when selecting the year. I think a hog would be bad to hit, solid critters. In HS back when, we saw the damage a wild horse in NV did to a brand new Dodge. Killed the passenger.
Duane

 

yeah give it 6 months or so and more vendors will have 2016 bumpers, I think Demello has mocked one up already, ARB has made one too

 

I don't think that ended well for either of them.

 

This is most likely an isolated incidence...

 

Plane should have been equipped with a plate bumper.

 

You mean a plate wing

 

I was envisioning a front bumper that stretched the entire wingspan

 

Um, NO.. We call that a "Damage Multiplier".. Last deer I got, I watched the fuker do cartwheels in the rearview mirror, it was probably in the 300lb range. Waiting for ARB, supposedly sometime this month..

 

It's the prototype, ARB has shown it off but no release info yet.