bowhunting for swamp deer

[lpcjon2]

Get hip waders and find a funnel of dry narrow land between two areas of water and get ready to shoot.

[GingivitisKahn]

Originally posted by hova:
as for crossings , very few people will cross even a small creek if they cant jump it or knock a small tree down. i always carry duct tape and 2 50 gallon trash bags. lightweight instant hip boots.

pull trash bag up , wrap around thigh with duct , wrap around knee once to keep it snug. wrap around top of boot , and run a piece or two over the sole of your boot area to keep from poking through the bag. i like to do the sole pieces first , then wrap around the ankle/boot and this keeps it all snug.

That is a *really* good idea.  Thanks for posting that!

[RC]

A good pair of hip waders have helped bring home lots of pork and deer for me.I do most of my hunting on food and swamp hunting is 90% of my hunting. An island with some swamp chestnuts dropping is as sweet as it gets where I hunt. Early season swamp persimmons and late season water oaks...Always good hunting in the swamp.RC

[Blaino]

This is a good post for me.  My favorit public land is just a few acers and I access it by boat. Shot my first trad deer this year. I saw deer every time I hunted and was blown away at how many deer got wet to come to the whitoaks.  It was a lot more work with the boat and all.  Not many people want to go through that effort and the deer know it.

[mrjsl]

Originally posted by lpcjon2:
Get hip waders and find a funnel of dry narrow land between two areas of water and get ready to shoot.

Down here where there is a lot of swamp, that is kind of counter intuitive. You have to treat water like dry land, because the deer won't go out of the way to avoid it unless it is an open area, such as crossing a river. Deer go through water pretty readily.

So, if you find a strip of land that is thick and the water is open, then your advice holds, but if you find that the water is thick with willows and the woods are more open, then the water might be the best place to set up.