So once I got in the woods yesterday I realized that all around my stand there was about a foot and a half of water, on my way into the flooded swamp I kicked up two decent bucks, once I got up in the stand I was sitting there and tried to imagine trying to track a deer through all this water if I got the shot. I ended up not seeing anything, but I told myself I would only take a shot within 25 yards to ensure that I had a clean kill, would you guys take a shot here? how difficult do you think it would be to track through this swamp? There was some spots of dry land almost like little islands going through the area and about 60 yards to my left there was normal woods.
have one area flooded this year and would do the same, stay with close, high confident shots. my area has a fair amount of brush to catch blood so expect some blood trail.
I've hunted swamps before, and now in the NW with all the dead pine needles covering the ground making the ground almost the color of blood, following a blood trail is next to impossible... don't take questionable shoot, watch em run as far as you can, then listen to see if they maybe change direction... a wounded deer won't generally run more then 100 yards (if that far) before looking for a place to hide and lie down as long as they aren't pushed.. give em at least an hour and half (more if you think it was a poor shot) then go to the last place you saw/heard then clearly, and start searching fanning out in the direction they were going at the time... I normally find them with 10-20 yards of that spot... haven't not found one yet
