http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_3s-H0wIr4
A fellow worker flipped this story to me today.  Looks like it has been out there for a year.   If it is true, One nice story for the Holidays! 

Hey Rich W, welcome to the SR board.. Didn't check the link but glad you got some.. We here struggle for the few good things we have in New York

I saw this on the internet in 2012, great story.

It indeed is if it is true?  It is amazing what animals will do to survive!  
Tuna, thanks for the welcome, but I have posted before and was hoping to make a run up over the Holidays to Pulaski from NJ.  I agree with you on the comments on NY deer.  Saw few on my trips up in October-November to Steelhead fish.  We are overrun by deer in NJ, attached a picture of a 12 pointer taken in NJ over the weekend given to me by my neighbor at work.  Do not know the lucky hunter or where taken but it is a beautiful Buck!     Never posted a picture to the new site so I hope it comes thru

Stories and encounters like that is a main reason I don't hunt anymore.Thanks for posting that.

I've seen deer swim in  rivers and lakes, and once  in the ocean in Maine, but never brought on a boat. I've seen the link before, but the joy of getting older and losing your memory  is everything seems like the first time.....  Don't forget to post a report of your trip. The pic didn't appear to me, if you go to the  link posted by the administrators on how to post pics, it's pretty straight forward.  Make sure to open full version instead of the quick reply...

Thank You Fichy!  I always look forward to reading your Posts!   We have a warming front coming into NJ friday  which may melt allot of our  snow.    Was hoping to get a nice layer of ice on the local ponds for jigging by New Years.   Going to play it by  ear with taking a trip to Pulaski over Christmas week.   Looks like there is a bit of a warming font hitting there also at least for a couple of days.   When I was living in Niagara Falls,  I remember reading about an arrest made of a duck hunter who lasso'd a buck swimming  in the river,  out of season.  Sounds like he kept it and got caught.    Any way I think I figured out how to attach the photos of the NJ Buck.   I gave up deer huntinfg in the 90's.    We had a couple  8-10 PT Big Bucks roaming our office property in East Hanover.  In the spring,  I pulled a fawn off a sewer grate  on our street and it returned the favor by coming back to dine nightly in my garden.  Ate everything except the Zuchinni and Purple Kale!
I do not personally know the Hunter  pictured in the photo or where it was taken but is really an impressive Buck!
Kudo's to the Hunter!
 

RichW,it's hard to get angry at them for eating the vegs when they're that cute.That big buck reminds me of the one that I saw on my property 10+ years ago,had the same mass and tine length and it's body dwarfed the respectable 10 pt it was seen with.To my knowledge that monster buck was never harvested.Currently there is another bruiser in the area and have n't heard of that one being taken either,now that rifle season is done in my part of Penna. it may live another year.

Jack , I get pizzed when I do all the work in the garden , plant a row of sunflowers then have those four legged ( I use another 4 letter term) decide its time for them to harvest the fruits of my labor. Even tried planting right against the dog fence area , kept the stupid woodchucks away but the deer are smarter. I really need to start thinning the local herd and filling the freezer.

Well I plowed more snow today and sat inside the house playing with ice gear. Wish I was on the ice playing instead but I feel a fever coming on sat .. Screw work I'm going fishing ..
BTW:
Me and the grandson had venison burgers which I ground with bacon for lunch and it was delicious !!!!!

Rich try repellents on those Sunflower munchers (Mothballs,human hair,cayenne pepper,etc.) or string some line at various height and hang some tin cans with metal bb's inside,when they hit that they take off.Then there is always fencing.
My favorite venison was chip steak sandwiches made from the hind legs.