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wannafish · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject: 12 point Swimmer

Heading south this morning just after sunup, I saw a strange site.A nice 10 or 12 point buck swimming to the natl seashore Shocked

Grabbed the camera and circled him a time or 2 snapping some pics, I'll post as soon as I get developed.
Fish,just a couple of keeper specs Sad

Vern · Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

Cool, I hear there are some pretty nice animals on there, but I have yet to see anything but coyotes.

Hardhead · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:27 am Post subject: PINS deer

I have seen the deer running along in the water several times but the darndest thing was the one that TW, Little Floyd & myself watched as it ran from the dunes into the water but then watched for several minutes as it headed to Cancun...We watched the buck swim out over 500 yards I guess, It went completly out of site. I looked for the next few days for a carcass along that area but never saw any sign of it. I havent a clue as to why a deer would do that.
Hardhead

ShawnQ · Guest

I wonder if they eat sea weed?

We saw a nice 10 or 12 pointer last weekend, thick antlers. He was running through a shallow flat. I would think that he would avoid the water, but he didn't. This sunday evening there were two does down by the water on the drive back from the mansfield jetties. They spooked once we got close to them in the truck. I was suprised at how fast they could run in the sand...I guess they put it in '4-high' and plow right through it...

I haven't seen them in the water yet.

hadaclueonece · Guest

I had a buck cross a river on me while bow hunting...Three $5 arrows it dawned on me...duh, what would I do if I hit it?

tyler

We were headed down at dark to camp and saw a couple of does run out and swim past the wade gut. I assumed they were getting away from something as there were no mosquitoes we assumed it must have been coyotes though we did not see any.

Tyler

rio nueces · Mud Minnow Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 16

Ticks can make deer behave strangely. I had a doe nearly stumble on top of me while I was fishing down in a creek on our place in Frio County. She got stuck in the mud and floating limbs right beside me. When I pulled her free I noticed that she was covered in ticks and fleas. the ticks were really thick inside her ears. The game warden told me that those ticks in the ears can drive them crazy or make them easy prey for the coyotes. Maybe this could explain the deer in the surf?

Big John at Work · Guest

When I was 8, me and my old man were fishing the north laguana, about bird island, in the channel in the winter. Here comes a nice 8 point buck swimming across the channel. He continued untill he reached land on the island side. Pretty weird stuff. Once I was old enough to understand the behavior of deer a little better, I figured out he was a. looking for doe upwind of him or b. running from a bigger buck on the bluff side.

Hardhead · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:09 am Post subject: This doe didnt make the swim

While coming back from Mansfield jetties Lynda and I ran across this doe that was to slow. The Coyotes had it caught in the water and had eaten the back end out of the deer. The coyotes were eating the entrails as we arrived. A large amount of the hind quartes had allready been eaten. Hard to believe the doe was still alive and standing. I gave the deer a helping hand and carried it back into the dunes so the coyotes could finsh their meal in solitude. This deer was coverd with fleas and had several sores over the body form the infestation. I think it simply was to weak to go any farther.

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject: Choke Canyon Swimmers

C.H. and I were several hundred yards south of the point on the west side of the Four Fingers area at Choke Canyon Reservoir about 7 years ago when we saw some brush sticking up where none had been before. As we motored closer, we saw the brush was actually the ears of two deer headed south across the widest part of the lake towards the South Shore boat ramp, which was at least a mile away. We used the boat to turn them around, and both made it back to the north shore okay, although one was temporarily hung up in the crotch of a dead tree he should have dodged. Nearly fell out of the boat laughing. Very Happy

When we got the boat on the trailer, we stopped one of the park wardens to ask him what the slot limit was on deer. Told him that since one of us had a hunting licence and the north shore of the reservoir sometimes has been open to deer hunting, only the doubt as to whether they were too small or too large to keep prevented us from dipping one up. He thought we were pretty funny, but said it wasn't that unusual to find them swimming way out in the lake.

We've talked for years about putting grasshoppers on the poles sitting outboard in our rod racks and trolling for turkeys down the roadways of the Calliham Unit at Choke. With shark rods and corn, I bet you could even troll up a few javelinas. Razz

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 2:12 pm Post subject:

Supposedly their coat helps them float pretty well.

The doe picture above is pretty disturbing....I'm suprised it could even stand. It sounds like the deer on PINS have a bug problem...

Guest · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject:

HAD A NILGAI COME BETWEEN OUR CAMP AND THE DUNES ONE EVENING

animal · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

hey hardhead.... did u help put the poor doe out of its misery? .... i know i would have.
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hadaclueonce · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:57 am Post subject: 12 point swimmer

25 years ago while bow hunting for deer in Indiana at a resevior, I found a dead dog floating in the river. The top of its skull was crushed in, I suspect it was chasing a deer, the deer walked out in the water until the dog had to swim and the buck used his front hooves to smash his brains out.
From a tree stand I have seen wild dogs chasing a Buck, the dogs didn't have a chance, the buck would get em going in a circle and stand back and watch em.

The Trout Scout · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:37 pm Post subject:

I've seen it twice. Both were bucks.

First time fishing with my dad about 10 years ago a buck was swimming out in the middle of Copano Bay. Didn't looked stressed, fatigued or anything, just cruising along - steady as she goes.

Two years ago I saw a buck swimming west to east across the ICW from the WildLife Refuge to the spoil bank islands while I was cruising to San Antonio Bay.

I've also seen them along the banks at St. Joseph and Matagorda Island's along the Cedar Bayou cut to the Gulf of Mexico.

I've always had good fishing days when I've seen deer moving on the way to the dock. Wink

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