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Quote from: grundy53 on November 27, 2012, 03:53:16 PMI'm sure those old timers didn't shoot spikes or two points... Wasn't until 1950 that the Boone & Crockett club settled on a scoring system for the development of trophy status. I'd be willing to bet with few exceptions that prior to that meat was meat and you took what you could get without concern for the status of headgear inches. Just look at Alaska now. Few subsistence hunters shoot high scoring animals. It's the big city out-of-staters that tend to worry about such things.The culling of does and poor genes within the restaints of food and wintering areas is good sound management. If all hunters and the entire state was to go 4 point or better I bet there would be far fewer big bucks than we have now. Just look at Canada's 6X6 minimum for elk. The first few years it was amazing the animals it produced. Now the huge 5X5 bulls with poor genes that will never be bigger are doing the vast majority of the breeding. And there are fewer and fewer good bulls to be found. That tends to be an argument of the elitist's and not an argument of sound wildlife management.
I'm sure those old timers didn't shoot spikes or two points...
I was being sarcastic . The reason these huge bucks are surfacing so many years after being killed is because back then no one cared about score or size. They would cut the horns off and hang them in the barn or throw them in the rafters. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 20 sets of antlers of this caliber either sitting or were sitting in various barns around western washington.
Quote from: PolarBear on November 27, 2012, 09:26:30 AMQuote from: mtn.goat on November 26, 2012, 11:53:26 PMThe game dept. did some transplanting of mule deer into SW WA in at least two of the counties listed, in the early fifties. My hunting partners' uncle helped with transport and release. One of his buddies killed at least one in the top 10 WA blacktails, that he had scored at least.I heard from an old logger from Forks that they planted some mule deer in the Olympics back in the 30's or 40's but they all died of pneumonia. Your hunting partners, uncles, buddy? An old logger from Forks?! I don't know, sounds like some pretty reliable sources right there. Just sounds funny, could have happened, I don't know either way.
Quote from: mtn.goat on November 26, 2012, 11:53:26 PMThe game dept. did some transplanting of mule deer into SW WA in at least two of the counties listed, in the early fifties. My hunting partners' uncle helped with transport and release. One of his buddies killed at least one in the top 10 WA blacktails, that he had scored at least.I heard from an old logger from Forks that they planted some mule deer in the Olympics back in the 30's or 40's but they all died of pneumonia.
The game dept. did some transplanting of mule deer into SW WA in at least two of the counties listed, in the early fifties. My hunting partners' uncle helped with transport and release. One of his buddies killed at least one in the top 10 WA blacktails, that he had scored at least.
Hello I’m new to this site but I wanted to post the blacktail antlers that were harvested in 1935 out of Cowlitz county WA. a friend of mine owns them…
Seriously I cant even think of one 160" buck thats come out of WA since ive been alive. There may have been or two but nothing that comes remotely close to the top 3. Was there some sort of crazy wild fire that happened in the 50s that caused amazing horn growth? Trying to come up with some sort of reasoning for it.
There was a guy on here that posted several nice blacktail bucks one time and one of them was massive, meaning it had mass all the way out. And covered with those little burs that hold in the moss and bark when they rub. Anyone remember those pics? He was standing in his house holding up the racks from several different years.
