Anyone Hunt In a Swamp?
10-02-2007, 06:43 PM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
RE: Anyone Hunt In a Swamp?
I always get tickled when some hunters mention shoulder shots or neck shots and someone else asks why....You can tell who has hunted a swamp and who hasn't.....It ain't no fun sloshing around in knee deep water in December when its been getting down to freezing and trying to track a deer in that mess...I always drop them where they stand in that situation...
10-03-2007, 05:57 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
RE: Anyone Hunt In a Swamp?
Hunting the cedar swamps in Maine and NH is one of the absolute best places to be. It sure can be thick, wet and nasty but that's why the deer are there.
Swamps offer deer security from hunters as well as protection from the elements when the weather turns nasty.
The wetter, darker, thicker...the better the deer like it.
Swamps offer deer security from hunters as well as protection from the elements when the weather turns nasty.
The wetter, darker, thicker...the better the deer like it.
10-03-2007, 06:59 AM
#14
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 389
RE: Anyone Hunt In a Swamp?
ORIGINAL: dragonslayer1
Man, there aint a much easier drag than in the water! It may be a little harder to walk in the water, but that deer will just skim along, especially in knee deep water.A lot of ourswamps here in NW Floridaare almost impenetrable. I've hunted Illinois and several other midwestern states and seen what they call "thickets". Give me a break. We've got thickets here a snake can't crawl through! When ourYankee buddies come down to gator hunt or fish with us, theyfind out what a real "thicket" is.
Man, there aint a much easier drag than in the water! It may be a little harder to walk in the water, but that deer will just skim along, especially in knee deep water.A lot of ourswamps here in NW Floridaare almost impenetrable. I've hunted Illinois and several other midwestern states and seen what they call "thickets". Give me a break. We've got thickets here a snake can't crawl through! When ourYankee buddies come down to gator hunt or fish with us, theyfind out what a real "thicket" is.
