How to retrieve deer from river!

[Riflemanz]

My hunting buddy bryan shot an 8pt buck last night and the blood trail ran out.We went first thing this morning and did a sweeping pattern of the area.I came up to the river and i see what looks like a brown rock floating in the middle of it.I get closer and can see its a deer with horns below the waterline.I told Bryan i found your deer and how in the hell are you going to get it out of the middle of the river? He finds a large log near the bank and wakes up the resident racoon living inside it to vacate the log so he can go swimming.It took us 3 hours to get this deer back to our trucks.Thank GOD for Bryans honda 4x4 with winch to do most of the work.We had 0 blood trail after 50yds to go on.The deer was hit thru the liver and went 2 tenths of a mile.We looked long and hard and we recovered the animal.

[TrophyBuck]

LOL... can’t say I have ever done that before, nor would I like too. Congrats on the retrieval ya just never know where their gonna end up. My best one yet was the one that piled up beside my trailer.

[vixenmaster]

Congrats on deer & hard earned recovery. I swam out & got a Doe i had killed with my ML. She had went out into the lake in Dec. it were cold swimming naked!

[wabi]

Congratulations on the recovery!
Glad it wasn't my deer to drag out.

[B-Logger]

Nasty task but congratulations on the buck. Looks like a happy hunter too.

[tman74]

Awesome recovery! Thanks for sharing.

[Crispy]

Congradulations! Thats gotta be cold!

[VixChix]

Nice!!!!

There should be a thread on unique recoveries.... would make for some interesting reading, I'm sure!

[bob1961]

good recovery ....i had a liver shot doe that wound up in a beaver pond, but she died on the edge of it and only got my hands wet getting her......bob

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[strider23]

Congrats!!! Nice recovery!!!

Congradulations! Thats gotta be cold!

I'll second that comment.

[groundpounder]

Nice job! I used my kayak on my last one. I have waded chest deep without waders in some cold water before too!

[wheelie]

Nice recovery, even has time for a smoke sitting there. LOL

[Sandman]

Congrats ..

[GaryM]

Glad you got him out. That's one hunt you guys won't forget. I wonder how big of a Labrador retriever it would take to bring in a deer? Gary

[Adam]

Funny you mention that. The first week of bow season I shot a nice little 7 point. I was hunting approx. 25 yards from a fairly large river. Long story short, i put an arrow into this guy and he takes off, straight to the river bank. The buck pauses for a moment and then dissapears. I thought for a second he would be running along the river but I was not that lucky. I hear a large splash and take off after him. This guy attempted to swim his way across. Made it about 30 yards from me and keeled over, gaining speed as he is floating down the river. I run about 200 yards downstream drop my bow, cell, wallet and ditch the shirt and start wading. The water wasn't to bad 'till I hit my manhood, continuing to wade further out the water reached my chest. I managed to grab the buck by the tail as he was going by and this point I am shoulder deep. The fun didn't end there, I struggled to get this guy up the slippery bank and ended up getting the landowner to give me a lift.

I guess some you have to work to recover while some you just drive up to.

Adam