RE: BEAVER, sink or float
I've shot more beaver than I care to count and it all depends on the shot placement and the water they're in if they sink or float. I quit shooting them in the water a long time ago, because the shots and the recovery are so much harder. Beaver have terrible eyesight so if you just watch the wind and sit still on the edge of a pond they'll eventually come out and walk around. Once they're on land it's a piece of cake to light them up and retrieve them. I once took nine in a row one evening by just waiting by a series of slides and soon enough they'd start waddling out onto land. I wouldn't recommend swimming after them either. I did that once and just about got circumcized by one of those buggers. I shot him with my bow and then ran out to retrieve my arrow and he turned on me in about knee deep water. I just about walked on water trying to get out of there. I just considered that arrow a goner.