if u could only choose one for the rest of your life?

[3nails]

 Blacktail. Most beautiful and most challenging.

[DBHAWTHORNE]

Blacktail. Most beautiful and most challenging.

 Chuck Adams once said “the Coues Whitetail is the hardest North American big game animal to take with a bow”.

Just sticking up for my whitetail. 

[grundy53]

Without a qsecond thought, Blacktail.

[blackveltbowhunter]

Blacktail. Most beautiful and most challenging.

 Chuck Adams once said “the Coues Whitetail is the hardest North American big game animal to take with a bow”.

Just sticking up for my whitetail. 

     Ever try hunting jackrabbits with a bow.  Besides im sure Adams was comparing coues to CALI blacktails. Thin necked ugly sob's

[blackveltbowhunter]

And its BT for me 

[DBHAWTHORNE]

Blacktail. Most beautiful and most challenging.

 Chuck Adams once said “the Coues Whitetail is the hardest North American big game animal to take with a bow”.

Just sticking up for my whitetail. 

     Ever try hunting jackrabbits with a bow.  Besides im sure Adams was comparing coues to CALI blacktails. Thin necked ugly sob's

But it looks like over the last decade Northern CA is the place you want to be if you are looking for big bucks:

Here is Boone and Crocketts 2000-2010
CA: 194
OR: 94
WA: 30
BC: 12

I am too hooked on whitetial but I can only imagine how tough those blacktail are to hunt. I do have a couple friends in Oregon that are regularly successful bowhunting big blacktail. They mainly use treestand and surprisingly use many of the same tactics I use with whitetail.


 

[blackveltbowhunter]

  Very true, as far as horns go, N. Cali has great genetics 

[DoubleJ]

I hate blacktail.  *censored*edd things make me sick

   Thats funny!    I dont care if I ever shoot another WT or MD.   

I like hunting them, until I actually have to hunt them.  I see 23042042390 of them everyday.  That is until Sept-Jan.  They are gone.  I hate them.  My freezer is WAY too empty to worry about trophy hunting or challenging myself.  When I have enough meat to make it a year without scoring, then I'll try a year of finding a special animal.  This year again will not be that year.

[Rainier10]

I voted mule deer since I always hunt for them, but when I do hunt whitetail they are delicious, I am glad I don't have to choose.

[Huntbear]

I have taken all 3.. have taken nice bucks of all 3 species....  Blacktails are the hardest to hunt..   Whitetails are the hardest to hit when running..

Muledeer are the hardest to eat if they are feeding on sage... 

That said, this state is the ONLY state you can hunt all 3...  If they try and restrict that... I will find another state.  Since this state just screws ya with a dried up old corn cob shoved right where the sun does not shine..

[fly4fish]

I believe you can hunt all three in Oregon as well.

I would choose Mule Deer. I like tall, wide racks.

[Miles]

Whitetail all the way. I would rather kill a 200 inch typical whitetail than a 400 inch bull elk. 

You're sick in the head.   

[DBHAWTHORNE]

Whitetail all the way. I would rather kill a 200 inch typical whitetail than a 400 inch bull elk. 

You're sick in the head.   

Perhaps.    I'm really hooked on those whitetail.

[Huntbear]

I believe you can hunt all three in Oregon as well.

I would choose Mule Deer. I like tall, wide racks.

Yes, you can hunt the Columbia Whitetails I believe..

However, Oregon does not have any Native Big bodied whitetails like we have in Washington state...

[DBHAWTHORNE]

I believe you can hunt all three in Oregon as well.

I would choose Mule Deer. I like tall, wide racks.

Yes, you can hunt the Columbia Whitetails I believe..

However, Oregon does not have any Native Big bodied whitetails like we have in Washington state...

They have some in the NE corner you can hunt (not the columbian variety)