I've managed to hit one in my current state of NC, in the wifes minivan, it didn't have insurance, the deer, not the van. Two close calls on motos when I lived in NY, in one instance, I actually went under the deer as it leaped into the air looking for an escape route, it was on the Taconic I believe, notorious for deer strikes due to it being narrow, and closed in by trees, the second was a near hit, avoided by liberal applications of vinyl swallowing, sphincter clenching braking, IIRC that was on Bear Mountain. Both on my old GS850. I really really hate forest rats.
*Took out a racoon yesterday, in the jeep. I felt the bump.....