Who has shot a deer and have it jump in deep water and expired . Did it float or sink?


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Sinks at first... then floats.

Mine all floated right away. Hollow hair, you people who tie flies and poppers know what im talking about.

And you ask this question because????

Ummm this isnt a genral knowledge question

I just put up a stand on the bank of the illinios river ,I know I'll kill a good buck there.It is the only cover for a mile and the deer tracks tell me they enter the river alot and do not come out so I know they are crossing there.There is a good chance he may try and cross after the shot and expair in the river.This has had to ofhappened to alot of hunters .I have seen it 3 times ,every time the water was shallow enough to expose a part and I was able to wade out and retreive them .but the deeper water I do not know about. I think I'll carry a ceap raft in the truck justin case.

im not an expert, but i have heard that the way Police determine when a body is dumped in the water, or if it drown... is by float or sink..
i think, that if your deer goes in.. still alive, and breathing.. and he breathes enough water into his lungs.. and actually DROWNS before he dies from the actual Bullet/arrow wound.. he might sink. with water in the lungs.

A buddy hunting with me shot a nice buck a few years ago, and we trailed it to a pond, and then lost the trail at the waters edge. I looked into the pond thinking the deer may have gone into the water, and there was nothing. We spent 2 hours looking for blood around the pond to determine where the buck had gone, and nothing to be found, then as we were getting ready to leave and retrace out trail, I notice the deer floating in the pond, he sank for a while, then floated back up.

Sink at first, float at later would be my guess.

Lost a nice 4x4 a couple of years back when after he was shot he ran into a swamp. Heard the spash and waded near my crotch for over 2 hours and never did find him. They sink like a rock.