Marsh Buck
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:42 am
As some of you may know I am an avid waterfowl hunter. Come Dec and Jan I hunt 3 days a week atleast, and usually do very well.
Over my 8 or so years of waterfowl hunting, I have jumped NUMEROUS bucks from cattails & swamps, and have seen monster rubs in unexpected places.
Ive also personally jumped 2 giant mature bucks from beds in marshes where they chose to escape through the water! 1 was a big monarch 20 some pointer jumped from a public marsh and he swam across a river to an off limits area of woods.
The 2nd was last year. I new this buck was in my duck pond as ive seen him in years past and rubs like ive only seen a few times. I can not buck hunt here, thats why I never hunted him. I only waterfowl hunt at this property.
I didnt see the deer bust out, but Im positive where he came from.. he attempted to swim the width of a 2 mile wide river, only to turn back. I have a video on my cell phone of us coming up on him, and we gently forced him back to shore where he ran to another block of woods.
Notice the marsh reeds tangles in his rack.
Over my 8 or so years of waterfowl hunting, I have jumped NUMEROUS bucks from cattails & swamps, and have seen monster rubs in unexpected places.
Ive also personally jumped 2 giant mature bucks from beds in marshes where they chose to escape through the water! 1 was a big monarch 20 some pointer jumped from a public marsh and he swam across a river to an off limits area of woods.
The 2nd was last year. I new this buck was in my duck pond as ive seen him in years past and rubs like ive only seen a few times. I can not buck hunt here, thats why I never hunted him. I only waterfowl hunt at this property.
I didnt see the deer bust out, but Im positive where he came from.. he attempted to swim the width of a 2 mile wide river, only to turn back. I have a video on my cell phone of us coming up on him, and we gently forced him back to shore where he ran to another block of woods.
Notice the marsh reeds tangles in his rack.
