I agree with you.....Keep in mind that I'm talking about deer we were still able to recover....I'm almost looking at the ones I referred to as just the minimum of what's possible. There's been other ones we didn't recover that may have done who knows what. I've tracked a bunch of them where we suspected the coyotes of getting them up and pushing them and eventually we'd just have to call it off. I could easily see there being situations where a deer could go for miles if the yotes kept pursuing him and he didn't have any bodies of water nearby. Its possible that at a certain point they abandon their usual tendency to circle back and switch to a bee line in a straight direction as a last resort to get them off his tail. Again though,,,,don't get too hung up an any one example I'm throwing out.....The point I'm trying to make is just that there are a lot of very real possibilities for what could cause such a behavior to occur. Something just tells me that calling it a "walk about" and saying they do it "just because" like he's going on s spiritual journey to find his true self is just not accurately describing what's taking place...….. .