Cameron Frowick has a very busy life. The 28-year-old Tyler resident owns his own business and when he does not have to work, there is a good chance he is on the lake fishing or in the woods hunting or preparing for hunting.
His preparations have paid off with a deer season where he took a pair of trophy East Texas bucks within a week of each other, and then guided his wife, Meredith, to a 130-inch deer. All of that came before Thanksgiving, allowing him to make a quick trip to deer hunt in Kansas and plenty of time to duck hunt before starting to bass fish.
His first buck of the year ended a yearslong quest for a 6 1/2-year-old Rusk County buck that was wounded by a neighbor hunting with an arrow last season and nicked by Frowick during archery season this year before he finally took it opening week.
“I had more than 65 hunts in on that deer,” Frowick said of the buck he had named TJ.
The buck lived its entire life on an 800-acre farm owned by Frowick’s grandfather, Marshall Treadwell. He started collecting pictures of the buck as a 9-point, 2 1/2-year-old and continued following its travels through this year.
“Me or my grandfather would go to the farm and make sure the trough he was going to would have protein or something in there 365 days a year. I run 20 cameras to define core area of this deer. I knew every year from when it was 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 when it would leave its summer area and move to its fall area,” Frowick said.
He especially had the deer patterned using one trail, but this year the buck abandoned that route from August until the start of archery season in October. Unfortunately for Frowick that is when the rains came, causing the Sabine River to rise and flood the property.
“I hung a set just for him, but with all the rain I had to wade to this spot in the bottom area. I waded probably 15 times. It was a lot of work,” the hunter said.
There was enough high ground that the buck held in the bottom and Frowick got a shot at him with a bow, but the arrow clipped a limb and grazed across the top of the deer’s neck as it ducked the arrow.
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