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Old 03-22-2008, 02:12 PM
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Default RE: do deer really go to water when they are wounded?

ORIGINAL: Splitear_Leland

I always fuigured blood loss caused them to dehydrate, making them thirsty. I have shot 4 deer that have died right next to a small pond after going for three or four hundred yards.

Exactly.
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