Public Land Mature Buck Bedding Tour Part 4

This is Part 4 in the Public Land Mature Buck Bedding Series where I take you into a known mature buck bedding area and give you a visual tour. In this Part I am taking you into a swamp area with a feature I have discovered in numerous swamps in PA and NY...what I call swamp rims. I anticipate this feature would also be fairly common in MI, WI, MN and anywhere swamps are commonly found. These areas are usually surrounded by acres of nearly impenetrable shrubs making the areas impossible to hunt. But the rims themselves, usually very linear and narrow, sit just a few feet higher than the surrounding land affording trees to grow only to about 20 feet. They become beacons for deer to navigate and travel through. As pressure increases from hunters on the public land and the rut approaches mature bucks take up residency on the rim for security and mating purposes. The hunting in these locations is intense because all of it has to take place on the ground as there are no trees to hang a stand or saddle in.
In this video I will show you some of the terrain I navigate through to get to the swamp rim, the rim itself and the swales that surround it. I will show you a map of the immediate area for visual purposes. I also point out many of the challenges of hunting bucks on swamp rims including ground hunting, wind and thermals, how to navigate the thick swamps and swamp safety. Additionally, I will describe three hunting methods that are effective in hunting the swamp rim.
I have had at least a dozen mature buck encounters near this swamp rim despite the fact that the surrounding areas of this public property are highly pressured by hunters. While I have never harvested a buck 'from the rim' I have stared down a bruiser 8 point at eight yards for ten minutes (until the thermals betrayed me), watched a long-tined, heavy mass, 10-point slog his way through the next swale from me just out of range and had many other encounters.
You can find these buck-infested swamp rims if you have the knowledge and willingness to find them with intensive scouting.

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Previous Bedding Tour Videos:
Intro-   • Public Land Mature Buck Bedding Tour ...  
#1-   • Public Land Mature Buck Bedding Tour ...  
#2-   • Public Land Mature Buck Bedding Tour ...  
#3-   • Public Land Mature Buck Bedding Tour ...  

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