Blacktail Success!

[Chromaflage]

Well, second to the last day of the season. I was sitting on my stand in my honey hole for about two and a half hours. This was the same place I got my deer last year. After not seeing anything, I started thinking too much as I usually do - what are the odds that I will get a deer in extactly the same spot as I did last year?

So I stood up and prepared to begin stalking. I know more than got my knees straightened and the woods came alive about 10 yards into the timber line. I saw several does bolt between the trees. Then nothing for about a minute. I kept watching.....two more does...then it happened - a lone deer peeled off from behind the does and came to a screeching halt right in the middle of the little clearing I was watching. Once he stopped, he started nibbling - didn't even know I was there. Not much for a rack (forked horn) but a mature body for such a set of horns. Nonetheless...stew meat and backstrap!



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[ 11-04-2003, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: OregonRedside ]

[KingFisher85]

Meats meat!

Nice buck! Gonna eat up real nice

[pdxkevin]

Congrats. That is a great looking buck. its godd to see more people wearing orange, too.

[Ras]

Hey Oregon Red;

Did you get that near home? Have an office at my dad's place just south of Persimmon, and looking forward to spending a couple of early AM's with my bow in a few weeks. Have a couple of areas scoped-out nearby, but lots of private.

He'll taste just fine!

Ras

[Chromaflage]

Ras - it's a private tree farm over in the Trask Unit.

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[Fish Hawg]

Congrats on the Buck , the larger the rack does not make backstraps taste better

[Chromaflage]

The next day we filled my dad's buck tag with a nice 2x3 and my son's doe tag.

All in all, when I took the three into the processor, total hanging weight was about 275#. About the same as one large muley.

It will sure eat up well, though!!

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[ 11-08-2003, 03:12 PM: Message edited by: OregonRedside ]