dan wrote:Glubke,
There are definitely patterns on where the deer, especially the mature bucks, bed and travel during daylight. The main issue with the swamp your looking at is its features are so subtle, its hard to recognize. It can take years to master a swamp like that one. If there is an easier type of terrain around for you to hunt, it might be a better choice.
To master that swamp, your going to need to spend a lot of time out there finding the over looked spots, the preferred bedding areas etc. I would move around a lot during hunting season trying different areas, in the off season I would walk and scout as much of the swamp as possible. Try to find areas of transition. Such as scout the entire outer edge of the swamp. You may find some spots along the road that do not get hunted because everybody parks at a parking spot and goes out and no one follows the road edge, the outer edge of the swamp will also be a good transition for bedding, any portion of it that does not receive pressure, should have good deer bedding and thus daylight activity.
When you look for transitions within the swamp, look for tree type changes, such as height or age of trees (or brush) or grass/cattails meet timber, or cedar meets hardwood, etc. A lso look for slight elevations in ground height...
Bedding in a swamp will be best at two elevation locations, the highest spots, and the lowest. By lowest, they are just above water level. They will bed in spots flooded with water, but not actually in the water, they find humps of ground sticking out to lay on.
Very good information. I guess I just need to give it time and some hard scouting and I will get on the deer. It is just frustrating with marsh. I I know where they are moving and when I come back they switch there movement or go nocturnal. Which I have noticed that after about the fist two weeks of bow hunting the deer start smelling and seeing hunters and then they go to moving after dark.
But I will put all your tactics that you told on the video and put them to practice.
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