RE: patterning flat land big woods deer.
Ok. Now I don't understand.
you say that its flat land. nothing, but oaks, no hills.
Then you say its swampy and drainages everywhere?
Well....in that case.. I would hunt the drainages. Hunt the edge of them where they transist into the mixed forest.
like i said. i am hunting a spot like that right now. i move from the flat land (oaks) to the drainages and see deer at both locations.