Author Topic: Two Whatcom County BT's down! (Read 9264 times)

shanevg · « **on:** October 21, 2012, 10:31:20 PM »

My dad and I had our family's most successful weekend of blacktail hunting in years. Saturday night (while I was down in Seattle with my wife while she took her Medical Assistant certification test - she passed by the way) my dad made it out to one of our hunting spots and found a monster old regressed buck chasing does around. Unfortunately I didn't get any good pics as I was out of town, I'll upload some of his if he ever gets around to downloading them off the camera.

His main frame was a 3x3 with eyeguards but he has a gnarly third antler growing out of his forhead with 3 points on it as well. Pretty cool buck! He is getting a euro mount of him so he should look pretty cool!

This morning, I headed out to a different spot that we hunt. When I left the house it was 37 degrees and overcast. The forecast called for .05 inches of rain for about an hour in the morning. Instead, it rained close to .75 inches and I was drenched and freezing cold. Early in the morning I had 2 does (I think) walk by at less than 40 yards and I had my gun on them and never could tell for sure if they were bucks or does because the rain was coming down so hard and thick I couldn't see clearly through it.

Around 8:30 I was about ready to call it quits as my hands were so cold I couldn't move them anymore. I actually started walking the logging road back to my truck when I looked up and saw something that looked "deer like" about 175 yards away. Sure enough it was a buck standing broadside looking at me. The rain had started to let up a bit and he had got up to start feeding. I was hoping to get a big 3 or 4 point this year but it was one of those times when you're so cold and miserable that when the buck stepped out it never even crossed my mind not to shoot it! I dropped my bipod and got a perfect heart shot at 175 yards and dropped him in his tracks!

He's not the biggest buck on the mountain but he is my biggest blacktail to date so I am thrilled.

(Yes I was wearing hunter's orange I just took it off for the pictures because I think they look better without it.)

All in all it was a pretty good weekend! I took my brother out this evening to see if we could make it a perfect 3 for 3 but we struck out.

The rut is definitely starting to kick in. My dad's buck was chasing a doe around a field and mine definitely was starting to get a swollen neck. With all this cold weather and mountain snow it shoudl be a good final week of the season!

ellensburgpo · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2012, 10:44:33 PM »

Great bucks, congrats to the two of you.

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2012, 10:47:00 PM »

Awesome! Good looking bucks!

Austrian Hunter · « **Reply #3 on:** October 21, 2012, 11:06:35 PM »

Nicely done!!! Congrats to both of you!!! Awesome bucks!!!

buglebuster · « **Reply #4 on:** October 21, 2012, 11:13:18 PM »

congrats to both of you! and your wife as well

Widgeondeke · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2012, 12:20:22 AM »

very nice bucks.

Ripper · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2012, 04:54:46 AM »

Good job guy's, I'm happy for you

Lunchbox1981 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 22, 2012, 05:01:50 AM »

Congrats to you, your father and wife too. Your dad's buck is aawesome looking gnarley old dude. Those are my favorite.

BIGMIKE · « **Reply #8 on:** October 22, 2012, 05:02:46 AM »

Awesome bucks

ICEMAN · « **Reply #9 on:** October 22, 2012, 05:54:15 AM »

Wow, nice couple of deer. Congrats!

wackum · « **Reply #10 on:** October 22, 2012, 06:29:49 AM »

Nice Bucks Congrats.

Kioti · « **Reply #11 on:** October 22, 2012, 06:31:19 AM »

Nice couple of bucks for wet Whatcom County!

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #12 on:** October 22, 2012, 06:49:15 AM »

Nice looking bucks!

blacktailer · « **Reply #13 on:** October 22, 2012, 09:15:41 AM »

Way to go Shane. Congrats...

X-Force · « **Reply #14 on:** October 22, 2012, 09:48:44 AM »

Great lookinging weekend!

Congrats to the wife too!!

NoBark · « **Reply #15 on:** October 22, 2012, 10:10:54 AM »

Tell the old man Congrats.........and no more complainging about the shoulder ( for a few days )

lol.

blackveltbowhunter · « **Reply #16 on:** October 22, 2012, 01:31:01 PM »

WTG! Nice buck!

Kowsrule30 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 22, 2012, 01:37:30 PM »

Can we get some more pics of 3 horn?? That buck is a toad.... Congrats to all of you....

baker5150 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 22, 2012, 01:38:18 PM »

Nice lookin deer.

More pics would be sweeeeeet!

AKBowman · « **Reply #19 on:** October 22, 2012, 01:46:18 PM »

That's a beauty!

I want to get out so bad it's killing me. This weekend should be good, I'm hell bent on getting one with my bow during rifle season so the only thing getting me out of the tree stand during daylight this weekend will be to track my buck.

If you count last late archery and this yrs mod season I have 19 days in the field without a kill. So far this yr 18 hrs on stand without seeing a deer. I know their around I have the pics to prove it! I have my eye on the massive 4X4 with eye guards I have velvet pics of in my trail cam thread labeled "4 month soak west side"

Too bad those dufasses stole your trail cam, thanks for posting and great quality pics. Sure is a pretty deer

JohnVH · « **Reply #20 on:** October 22, 2012, 02:47:58 PM »

nothing wrong with that! meats meat! Im jealous!

blacktailcody · « **Reply #21 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:50:04 PM »

Congrats to both of you.

dbor · « **Reply #22 on:** October 23, 2012, 06:59:17 PM »

Nice looking bucks...I would be happy to tag that forky...

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