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Author Topic: Hunting from a canoe???  (Read 1682 times)

Offline weasle

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Hunting from a canoe???
« on: February 12, 2007, 11:19:00 PM »
Does anyone hunt from a canoe? Do any of you have any tips on getting close to game with a canoe? thanks for the help.
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2007, 11:21:00 PM »
There is a thread on here somewhere about exactly that. Ron LeClair has some real nice pics in it also.
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Offline GrayRhino

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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2007, 04:03:00 AM »
In Bill Langer's dvd "Traditional Adventures II" there is some good footage of moose hunting in Maine using a canoe.  I've never done it, but it seemed to work pretty good for them.
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2007, 08:09:00 AM »
Deer many times bed close to the river.
Drift with the current, paddle as little as possible using the paddle as a rudder. Keep an arrow on the bowstring and be ready.


 

   

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2007, 08:26:00 AM »
An important thing to remember, keep your bow tip outside of the canoe when you shoot.   :archer:

   
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2007, 08:38:00 AM »
The worst mmmmmmmmmiss I ever made was from a canoe. If you're gonna do it, practice sitting crosslegged for two hours in the rain then take a shot.........

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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2007, 10:08:00 AM »
Some times the canoe can put you where others can not get to.

 

 
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2007, 01:28:00 PM »
Been talking about doing this for years.  Guess I'd better get on it and try.
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2007, 01:35:00 PM »
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The worst mmmmmmmmmiss I ever made was from a canoe. If you're gonna do it, practice sitting crosslegged for two hours in the rain then take a shot.........
 
Biggie, did that canoe have an outrigger on it?    :biglaugh:

   
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2007, 03:44:00 PM »
I have hunted from a conoe and a kayak for waterfowl.

The kayak was fun but I have since upgraded to a old town discovery 169.

When your hunting in a conoe its like your part of the stream. Its something that is just special.
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2007, 03:52:00 PM »
HaH! No outrigger but the freeboard was less than 2"
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2007, 08:53:00 PM »
I was in a canoe with less than 2" of freeboard once ...but there was half a moose and all my gear in it with me.   :biglaugh:
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2007, 09:17:00 AM »
I heard about a guy hunting in Maine who missed a moose from a canoe at 10 yards...by about 4 feet!
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« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2007, 09:43:00 AM »
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I heard about a guy hunting in Maine who missed a moose from a canoe at 10 yards...by about 4 feet!
Ray, was it anybody we know?   :rolleyes:
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2007, 10:05:00 AM »
There is a movie - Lost Antlers - about a fellow Lance Goodwin going deep in the backcountry on a moose hunt in a canoe. One of the better trad hunt movies out there. Always gets me wanting to do a long float/hunt. A buddy of mine and I have talked about doing a late season float in Alabammy, but haven't gotten around to it quite yet. Maybe I can find a nice creek in TN and hit it in early October this year.

This is the movie link...
 http://www.3riversarchery.com/Product.asp?c=4&s=33&p=46&i=7817-1
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2007, 02:31:00 PM »
Ray....it was 15 yards.........

I just led him too far.

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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2007, 04:16:00 PM »
I hunted whitetails from my canoe once,,,    :thumbsup:
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2007, 06:02:00 PM »
I've not hunted from a canoe but I have used one to reach my hunting area.  Its a nice way to access places where walking just doesn't cut it.  Bought a short kayak last summer, may do the same with it.
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Offline Ray Hammond

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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2007, 07:17:00 PM »
Ron,

I am absolutely certain its someone we know.   :goldtooth:

Biggie, I wasn't going to tell a soul, buddy!!!
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Re: Hunting from a canoe???
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2007, 02:59:00 PM »
Are we talking canoes, hunting deer and adventures in cold November waters?    ;)  

Well, let's just say that one should never go canoeing with a novice who might grab a branch hanging over the shore to stop the canoe.   :scared:  

ESPECIALLY if there's a couple of bows in the bottom of the canoe that might (did) get away.  :eek:    :eek:  

P.S.-I've never bow hunted out of a canoe.   :wavey:
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