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re: Downshift's swamp navigation and sneaking aorund thread (TL;DR)
Posted on 8/14/12 at 10:58 pm to Boats n Hose
Posted on 8/14/12 at 10:58 pm to Boats n Hose
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Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:00 pm to wickowick
Boat's big grosbec arse is gonna be killin all the swamp donkeys if you don't quit giving him secrets 
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:02 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Boat's big grosbec arse is gonna be killin all the swamp donkeys if you don't quit giving him secrets
I getting ready to head to bed and I'm going to delete anything to help lurkers...
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:03 pm to wickowick
I was jokin. Hopefully he can put by blood dog to work.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:07 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I was jokin. Hopefully he can put by blood dog to work.
Was planning to do it anyway, google works too well on here, a little searching can go a long way...
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:07 pm to wickowick
Yea I'd hate to see another BR public ponds incident.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:14 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Dammit I missed whatever it was 
I've been looking at the map and figuring out where a lot of people hunt, or at least areas I know people hunt where exactly they can get to easily in their boat. That way I know where to stay away from.
I've been looking at the map and figuring out where a lot of people hunt, or at least areas I know people hunt where exactly they can get to easily in their boat. That way I know where to stay away from.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:16 pm to Boats n Hose
The absolute worst place is somewhere that a right of way hits a canal. They are flat out dangerous. There are people slinging 300 mag bullets down those things all day and half the night. Avoid them like the plague within a half mile of the canal.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:19 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
You mean like a powerline or pipeline clearing that crosses a canal?
I've actually seen some old box stands on google earth looking around, all on powerlines
I've actually seen some old box stands on google earth looking around, all on powerlines
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:23 pm to Boats n Hose
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You mean like a powerline or pipeline clearing that crosses a canal?
Yes. Stay the ever living frick away from it unless you want bullets zinging by your head. There are a whole bunch of dumbasses in mud boats with giant arse rifles. You won't see shite for bucks on it anyway. They get too much pressure. Those bucks know better.
Find your own little hole back there. Deer lay up in shuck grass around there like rabbits. It isn't hard to kick a few of em up.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:30 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Yes. Stay the ever living frick away from it unless you want bullets zinging by your head. There are a whole bunch of dumbasses in mud boats with giant arse rifles. You won't see shite for bucks on it anyway. They get too much pressure. Those bucks know better.
Oh I know this, not fricking with powerlines around here. If I did it would be in certain places where canals get close to them where people don't really go. I don't really like sitting on a powerline anyway. There's actually only one place I found I would even think about going sit along a long clearing, and I'd rather not do that anyway
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:32 pm to Boats n Hose
There's little secret openings everywhere back there. There's places in that swamp where you can see 200 yards through the cypress.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:42 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Wow. Thanks for the time it must have taken to write all that shite.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:47 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I know of at least one area where it looks like they didn't log, or at least not as heavily, and there's a bunch of really old cypress trees and because of that it's thin and you can see really far through it all.
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:49 pm to Boats n Hose
Yea there's stuff like that.
Edited the deer dragging section
Edited the deer dragging section
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:58 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Also, you want to tie the rope around the horns (or head if, heaven forbid, it's a doe), tie the other end around the stick, and drag the deer out that way
What stick?
Posted on 8/14/12 at 11:59 pm to Boats n Hose
Back to the damn edit button
Posted on 8/15/12 at 12:05 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Follow downshift's guide and never frick up
Part of why I want a nice harness, other than saving me from plummeting to my death or paraplegia, is to use it as a deer drag
Posted on 8/15/12 at 8:49 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
i hate that i missed this thread...
i rely heavily on my compass when walking through the swamp, i probably check it every 10-15 minutes or so, i don't bring flagging but it is a good idea...only other thing i would add is that i try to stay in clumps of cypress trees and try to walk from root to root, screw walking through an open plot of fouchettes (or however you spell it) when i walk i try to put my toe in the water first instead of walking flat footed, and ill stop and wait in any area that looks like it could hold deer, it probably takes me 10 minutes to walk 20 yards.
spotting them is also something else that's tricky (i personally believe that for every deer you see in the swamp there's at least 1 or 2 more in the area that slipped right by you), a lot of times they'll be bedded down in thick grass or right next to a cypress stump, the sun is your friend, a lot of times you'll see that reddish tint next to a tree off in the distance
i rely heavily on my compass when walking through the swamp, i probably check it every 10-15 minutes or so, i don't bring flagging but it is a good idea...only other thing i would add is that i try to stay in clumps of cypress trees and try to walk from root to root, screw walking through an open plot of fouchettes (or however you spell it) when i walk i try to put my toe in the water first instead of walking flat footed, and ill stop and wait in any area that looks like it could hold deer, it probably takes me 10 minutes to walk 20 yards.
spotting them is also something else that's tricky (i personally believe that for every deer you see in the swamp there's at least 1 or 2 more in the area that slipped right by you), a lot of times they'll be bedded down in thick grass or right next to a cypress stump, the sun is your friend, a lot of times you'll see that reddish tint next to a tree off in the distance
Posted on 8/15/12 at 9:03 am to AboveGroundPool
There's lots of times when I don't see em till they get up 3 or 4 yards infront of me. Scares the shite outta me every time.
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