How to Hunt a Swamp Buck
If you hunt in or around a river bottom, swampy area or coastal marsh, read this: Biologists worked a project in southern Delaware for four years, capturing bucks and then collaring them with GPS. They separated the deer into two age classes–4½ years old and younger, and 5½ and older—and monitored their movements around swamps and marshes. They found that the oldest bucks hardly ever left the swamps until cover of darkness. The younger bucks not only left the marsh on occasion, they also readily used nearby upland forests and crop fields. The 5-year-olds routinely avoided those areas. The scientists wrote, “Not using wetland areas increased a buck’s risk of mortality by 2.7, meaning he was nearly 3 times more [...]