First MA buck on the ground
Contributors to this thread:Massachusetts
From: TexBow
18-Nov-17
Finally put a buck on the ground after 3 years of tag soup. Z11 and a couple of long canoe rides later. He was cruising the down wind side of down bedding, 7am on the 16th. Crossing East to West doe trails from South to North with a SE wind.
From: TexBow
18-Nov-17
From: mrw
18-Nov-17
Great buck Texbow! Congrats on that swamp donkey!
From: Jimbo
18-Nov-17
Nice buck, Tex! That you went after him in a canoe is very cool. Congratulations!
From: Bowhunt3138
18-Nov-17
That's awesome !! Congratulations!! Nice shot
From: spike78
18-Nov-17
Awesome buck, awesome shot and awesome method! Is it safe to assume you have that spot all to your self. That is some hard work and effort with the canoe!
From: Moons22
18-Nov-17
Nice job!!
From: Dthfrmabove
18-Nov-17
Great job. Like the canoe hunt
From: hookee
18-Nov-17
Fantastic bud - great work an story
From: Jebediah
18-Nov-17
Congrats! The picture of deer in canoe could be in a magazine, just great!
From: brokenarrow
18-Nov-17
thats definatly a cool accomplishment, takin a ma deer from the ground after a canoe trek! your inspireing me to get my canoe out and into those hard to get to spots
From: Rooster
18-Nov-17
Very nice!!!
From: SloMo
18-Nov-17
Very nice . Love the pic of him hanging out of the canoe . Congratulations
From: Ungie01201
18-Nov-17
Awesome. Congrats!
From: UrbanHunter
18-Nov-17
fantastic!! love the canoe work....hard core....hope you took tons of cool pictures. congrats. I can barely stumble from bed to truck to woods....can imagine adding cold water to the equation!
From: Pi
18-Nov-17
Well done .
From: TexBow
18-Nov-17
Thanks all! It was def a great feeling of accomplishment. I appreciate all the learning and sharing here.
From: DeanMan
18-Nov-17
Well done. Tremendous amount of work with the canoe.. Have a buddy take a pic of you coming down stream. Bad ass
From: EBow10
18-Nov-17
Awesome congrats way to get it done
From: stillhunter
18-Nov-17
love it, grate job
From: Belchertown Bowman
18-Nov-17
Very nice.
From: huntskifishcook
18-Nov-17
Nice work! I love hearing about how the buck was cruising in relation to doe bedding, trails and wind.
From: Cougar
19-Nov-17
Nice work Tex, I'm pretty sure you paddle past me last saturday in that canoe while I was freezing my ass off lol. tip of the hat to getting it done in beast mode
From: spike78
19-Nov-17
Tex, can you tell us about the area? Was it an island or were just using canoe to get to the back end of large woods or? Just curious on the canoe application.
From: TexBow
20-Nov-17
Cougar that was indeed me. It was quite a cold morning. The most hilarious part of that for me was that you were in the exact tree I was planning on hunting haha. Did you end up seeing anything? Spike, I was on a small river/creek that cuts through a marsh. There is a bend in the creek that connects to a line of trees that form a natural rut funnel for bucks cruising downwind of doe bedding.
From: bowandspear
20-Nov-17
Well earned, congrats TexBow!
From: Will
20-Nov-17
That's really cool - the whole canoe entry strategy is really neat. AWESOME!
From: Cougar
20-Nov-17
hahaha I knew it by the smirk you had on your face!!! I saw a buck cruise by at daybreak doing basically what the one you shot was... about 75 yards out, unresponsive to calling. then a couple does ran thru at about 7:45. Gonna make a late season play on that spot and Z11 in general. I switched jobs and moved to western mass which has me doing more driving than hunting. Got some time off mid to late december tho so I'll be after 'em.
