Southern Sportsman
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This is in a section of river bottom hardwoods. Most of it is leveed and flooded now for duck season. There is one higher section that basically makes a 20 acre island. The water is shallow enough that deer can come and go wading through the woods, but the dry ground is getting pretty heavy traffic. I waded out to it last weekend and put up a camera.
I like this deer a lot. Short tines, but he's wide and has a lot of main beam. More importantly, he's old and secluded deep in the river bottoms. He has to wade through chest deep water to work this scrape. Obviously not easy to get at. I've got a plan, but it will involve a kayak, a climbing stand, and a pair of chest waders.
This is the exact same corner of woods where one particular turkey kicked my @ss every time I tried him this past spring, so I hope that doesn't carry over.
I like this deer a lot. Short tines, but he's wide and has a lot of main beam. More importantly, he's old and secluded deep in the river bottoms. He has to wade through chest deep water to work this scrape. Obviously not easy to get at. I've got a plan, but it will involve a kayak, a climbing stand, and a pair of chest waders.
This is the exact same corner of woods where one particular turkey kicked my @ss every time I tried him this past spring, so I hope that doesn't carry over.
For exactly a decade now I have owned a place along the Hatchie River that has a 500 acre swamp on it and I can show you THOUSANDS of pics of swamp daddies that would blow most folks minds (including them swimming, not wading, nightly in rising water) and the heaviest I have killed was weighed by Buford at exit 56 at 270#. But I gotta admit, I've never seen one THAT old nor built like that. WHATTA ANCIENT WARRIOR he is! 
His rack isn't the trophy with that crafty old webfooted professor! I killed a 7.5yr old buck in south TX back in 1999 that looked like George Burns but he looked nothing like that old swampasaurus!
