My 9-year-old boy Mason knows hunting isn’t always a slam-dunk. Baggin’ his first deer in AL (a state record spike) and then shooting a few does in GA, he has seen first hand how aggravating hunting bucks in the southeast can be. Around Thanksgiving Mason and I hunted for 5 days straight on my lease in GA and never even saw a deer, making his earned trip to TX a certain treat.
TX is a lot of fun to hunt for adults and especially kids, as a matter of fact; starting last year I use an annual trip to TX, as a hunt to work for. Mason has to get straight A’s and good conduct in order to go.
Well this year Mason rocked out on the A’s in school so off to TX with went with the Flextone Game Calls crew.
After 3 days of hunting, Mason connected with an old 130 inch 11 pointer, and his first Javelina with his Remington 7mm-08! He also smoked him a big doe with a crossbow!
We had a blast hunting together and the whole experience was captured on tape for a Bone Collector show episode. It was funny seeing how hard it was for me to keep Mason’s safety on, because he was ready to shoot everything that came out into the food plots.
I just hope now he will still find the fun in hunting GA, he says he wants to now more than ever since he scratched his finger in the lone star state.
10 Responses to “Straight A’s in School and Mason Waddell Goes to TX”
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March 13th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
way to go mason me be 18 i can relate because my first deer was a big 8 point dry scored at 135 is still fresh in my memory and i know you have those memories dont let go of them because they get you threw the hard times and that you can relate to.
March 13th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Great job!… It’s always wonderful to have a successful hunt and you earned it with straight A’s! Great job!
February 20th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
WTG Mason! We just watched the episode of the TX hunt…Totally awesome! Excellent shot on that Hog.
February 15th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Good buck and good job in school, work first play later! Your dad is the coolest so just listen and keep at it you will have plenty of chances to bag big ones.You are still young and have alot of hunting left. Hey I enjoy the shows and hope one day to be doing it myself. Maybe you will be hearin about No Excuses Hunting one day.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
wow good job mason way to go !! I remember last year I bagged a 10 pointer with a 6inch drop tine i was shaking so bad but me and the hoyt mt sport got the job done.Love the show bone collectors and real tree roadtrips!!!!! keep up the good shouting those records haha good luck.
January 28th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
[...] “TX is a lot of fun to hunt for adults and especially kids, as a matter of fact; starting last year I use an annual trip to TX, as a hunt to work for. Mason has to get straight A’s and good conduct in order to go. Well this year Mason rocked out on the A’s in school so off to TX with went with the Flextone Game Calls crew. After 3 days of hunting, Mason connected with an old 130 inch 11 pointer, and his first Javelina with his Remington 7mm-08! He also smoked him a big doe with a crossbow. We had a blast hunting together” – from Straight A’s in School and Mason Waddell Goes to Texas [...]
January 17th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Thats awesome. congratulations. Cant wait to see the footage.
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January 7th, 2010 at 7:56 am
Great Buck Mason! That’s awesome with th All A’S! Keep up the good work!tell your daddy that you want to go to the Milk river if you make all A’s the whole school year! Way to GO!
January 7th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Way to go mason good job. That is a great buck and keep up the good work. I know what it is like not to see deer here in michigan I didn’t see a deer for 15 days but hey that is why they call it hunting. So keep your head high and aim for the sky.
January 6th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Hey Mason,
Good job on making those A’s.Thats a great buck!I live in the southeast to over in AL.I know how tough the hunting can be but hang in there.Cant wait to see the show of your hunt.