Our son Wade shot a Washington Blacktail through the heart at 355 range-finder yards.
This was his second buck this year, as he scored in Oregon week before last with a 2-point Mule Deer. Across a steep canyon, it took us over an hour just to reach the 4-point. To avoid a 100 foot sheer drop off just below where the deer stopped rolling, we had to drag the big-bodied animal 150-yards across the hillside to reach a reasonable downward path. Not long after starting down, the buck got away from us and rolled over 75-yards down the canyon, which shortened two antler points. At one point we literally rode him down a rock slide for over 150 feet – me holding the head to insure us not break any more of the rack. The ride down the rockslide started out fun but ended with our behinds cut and bruised. At the canyon bottom was where we hung the buck in a tree and boned him out for the pack. This was the type of hunt my son and I will not soon forget.
We were hunting in the WDFW Klickitat Wildlife area - public land.
Here's our Oregon bucks:
Deer Hunting 2008
Bluefinn
. Congrats!!!!
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