I shot a few that started flopping around like a fish OUT of water!

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

Yes, Dr. Whiteman is an expert in amphibians, but as the head of Murray State's Dept. of Biological Sciences, he also knows a great deal about mamals as well.

And yes, the study did show that rats that went into hypovolmic went to a water bottle 99% of the time within a minute of shock. In Biology, theres always a margin for error as you know. Im not going to tell you that deer would perform the same test at 99% accuracy, but I would think it would be over 60%.

Charlie Alsheimer actually did test thisat a whitetail preserve in Michigan and wrote about it in Deer and Deer Hunting magazine. I cant exactly remember his results, I will try to find it tonight.

Charlie Alsheimer actually did test thisat a whitetail preserve in Michigan and wrote about it in Deer and Deer Hunting magazine. I cant exactly remember his results, I will try to find it tonight.


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Is this a joke?
I get it - Charlie Alzheimer.... I can't exactly remember

I've had two gut shot deer go for water, not many others have.

HHMMMM. Good question actually.
I have heard this tossed around before. I know that mortally wounded deer always go down hill. Is it coincidence that a creek is at the bottom? I don't know for sure. None of them have made it to the water.

Now that I think about this most of mine don't make it that far.

A gutshot deer or elk tend to head downhill and to water. Following creek beds until they hit a fence will often turn up that hard to find corpse.

Every deer i have shot has heaeded right for the river or to the pond in our woods.

I arrowed a nice 8pt two years ago andcouldn't find any sigh after 200yds. Didn't get full penatration and hit him high. I ended up finding him close to a half mile away laying in a thicket next to one of our big ponds. My arrow was still in him and I felt terrible that he had to go through that. It is the only deer that I have lost and hopefully will never happen again.[&o]