Blacktail pics

birdhunter · 12-10-2002, 09:42 AM

Here are the pictures of my buck. Sorry they didn't scan better and the garage shot really doesn't do justice to the animal, but here it is.

Fish Hunter · 12-10-2002, 10:16 AM

That beats the buck your Dad nabbed out from under you

while we were fishing last year huh. Way to go!

RogueFishr · 12-10-2002, 10:19 AM

Nice Buck!

RF

Small Fry · 12-10-2002, 10:28 AM

Nice buck. I had a shot at one that big once. I started shacking all over and missed. Buck fever.

eightball · 12-10-2002, 10:52 AM

Super buck, you will be hard pressed to ever get a bigger one on the west side. Congratulations

:grin: :grin:

Firedog · 12-10-2002, 10:59 AM

Nice buck BH, gotta love those late season blacktails :smile: There are plenty of big bucks on the westside they are just hard to get :smile:

Beer Waggin · 12-10-2002, 01:47 PM

Nice!!

KingFisher85 · 12-10-2002, 01:49 PM

Thats a nice buck. Now were have I seen one of them before

Good shootin

Grantspastor · 12-10-2002, 02:31 PM

Just like the one I wanted to shoot. You ought to have that one scored. I've seen a couple of record book blacktails, and yours is certainly in the ballpark. Congratulations!

GutshotApe · 12-10-2002, 02:37 PM

Philosophically, its too bad, in a way, that you got that buck. Even though you are young, you will probably hunt the rest of your life and not get another blacktail buck like that one.

Born to Fish · 12-10-2002, 02:47 PM

Wow, what a trophy! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] Congratulations, and thanks for sharing the moment,

spinnermaker · 12-10-2002, 05:01 PM

Thats a nice buck :grin:

Elkhunter · 12-10-2002, 06:02 PM

Nice buck!!! [img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] Did you get buck fever?

WildHawg · 12-10-2002, 06:10 PM

WHAT!!!! YOU CUT HIS HEAD OFF AT THE NECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good God son! That is a true trophy, and should be on the wall intact--not as a horn mount. Heck, I'da paid to have it mounted for you if you'd let me keep it in my house long enough for all my friends to have seen it. I've got some dandy's, including a 20", 128" buck west of I-5, but nothing quite that nice. My friend did get one out of my honey hole this year I think'll make book.
I'm guessing he came from the Cascades, not the Coast or Valley, and probably from Southern Oregon. 21-22", and will score around 140 w/o deductions. If he's a true Blacktail, that'll get you in BC. Tell me what you can about your hunt--w/o divulging too awful much

blacktail · 12-10-2002, 06:19 PM

Great buck!! You should have him measured. I'll say about 135" before deductions.

Mike

OneLastCast · 12-10-2002, 07:30 PM

That is a beauty BirdHunter.

Forget what those other guys said, just make sure the one you shoot next year is bigger.

OneLastCast

Killertraylor · 12-10-2002, 11:07 PM

Wow.....

santiam slayer · 12-10-2002, 11:27 PM

very impressive! out of curiosity, what were the animal's measurements?

skein · 12-10-2002, 11:33 PM

Very nice! Congratulations. Thanks for the pics.

Skein

birdhunter · 12-11-2002, 08:29 AM

Thanks for all the nice comments. Posted the story on the hunt: here. Took me so long to get to him after the first time I saw him, most of my buck fever had passed. Calm easy shot. Had to sit down a while after I got up to him though. I haven't had the buck scored yet and initally wasn't planning on it, but now I might have changed my mind. He's 19 3/4 " wide and 14" tall. The pictures dont' show it real well, but he's pretty thick too, 5" circ. at the base of each antler. I've seen some southern Oregon deer that would make this one look puny, but this guy is pure blacktail. He was taken along the lower Clackamas River Thanksgiving weekend on a Willamette additional deer tag. Tried to drag him out in halves but that didn't work. Took long enough packing him out on my own. Seriously considered caping him out and doing a head mount, but I don't have the funds for it. Not to toot my own horn because this is definately a great buck and by far my biggest, but you should see some of the other racks we've got in our house. He'll fit in nicely on the wall.

TheRogue · 12-11-2002, 09:09 AM

Jeez, and I just got over the nightmares of the monster I missed on the last day this year!! Thanks!!