Magic this is a very interesting post indeed. I have no reason to doubt any members that have had different experiences than I. However, I have hunted a lot right next to a lake and every deer that I have shot and went any distance at all have not went in the water. They could have vey well done so but did not. My father hunts on another big lake in another state and has never had one go in the water as well. Most every deer that I have had to track for a ways was found in a low spot, in a gulley, in a thicked, or next to a log.

Ed