Author Topic: Goldendale Blacktails (Read 13329 times)

sss5358 · « **on:** November 12, 2008, 08:45:01 AM »

My buddy and I hunted the Goldendale Washington area. He ended up with a nice big 5 X 5 and I managed to score a nice 4 X 3. Lots of deer in the area. Trick is to get permission to hunt private land. Public land in the area we hunted is pretty scarce.

fc2038 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2008, 08:48:11 AM »

Nice bucks congrats!

blacktailer · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2008, 08:50:39 AM »

Man that's an awesome buck you got there. That thing's got to be real close to a book buck. Good Mass, Great Eyeguards, and very few deductions from what I can see in the pics. Get him scored. He might just go 135 B & C. Congratulations on one hellova buck man!!!!

NW-Eric · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:01:00 AM »

those are some nice blacktails

X-Force · « **Reply #4 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:02:03 AM »

it looks like you guys have a honey hole!

TeacherMan · « **Reply #5 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:04:36 AM »

Those are some great deer, hope you put them on the wall.

bowsandhose · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:05:26 AM »

sweet, congrats

Firstlight · « **Reply #7 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:26:23 AM »

That is a awesome Blacktail. You better put him on the wall. Looks like some good gene's where yer huntin. Congrats

Timberstalker · « **Reply #8 on:** November 12, 2008, 10:17:53 AM »

Good buck. Some of those buggers might be crossed up with muleys in that area

GWA Hunter · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2008, 10:21:19 AM »

One word...AWESOME!

bucklucky · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2008, 10:30:52 AM »

Nice bench buck !

mwhite · « **Reply #11 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:09:02 AM »

Nice bucks! If they were killed in Goldendale they can't be scored as blacktail though. Still dandy's!

Buschingc · « **Reply #12 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:21:08 AM »

sss5358 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:56:50 AM »

Quote from: Buschingc on November 12, 2008, 11:21:08 AM

Thanks.

Yes, that is too bad. Since it is a cross area it can't be scored. As far as we can tell it is not a cross, black tail, smaller ears. We have been hunting the area for years and for years Washington fish and wildlife had the area scored as Blacktail. Recently they changed that to Mule deer but allow you to choose Blacktail when you go in an report it. It is going be mounted though and my partner and I are convinced it's blacktail. We have not seen any mule deer around the area we hunt in all the years we have been hunting there.

sss5358 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:59:09 AM »

Quote from: blacktailer on November 12, 2008, 08:50:39 AM

Man that's an awesome buck you got there. That thing's got to be real close to a book buck. Good Mass, Great Eyeguards, and very few deductions from what I can see in the pics. Get him scored. He might just go 135 B & C. Congratulations on one hellova buck man!!!!

Thanks.

We thought it would be scored around that too. But, B and C will not score Blacktails from that region as it is a cross area. Even though we are convinced it is a blacktail. But that doesn't bother either my partner or me. It is a memorable deer and a great hunt.

Bofire · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:59:58 AM »

:)The game dept. says it aint a blacktail cause it is east of the Pacific Creast trail. Lord know they are never wrong, but I wonder how they taught the deer to read the map and game book.??
Carl

rasbo · « **Reply #16 on:** November 12, 2008, 12:10:23 PM »

envy envy yeah baby nice duo

rudedawg1085 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 12, 2008, 12:13:28 PM »

Great buck!!, I shot a blackie in Goldendale during the modern season. It was the only buck I saw all week and figured it was a nice little 3x3 to take down..we were up in ceadervalley road, a couple miles west of goldedale. Where did you hunt??

270Shooter · « **Reply #18 on:** November 12, 2008, 03:41:51 PM »

Great deer congrats

The deer on the top looks a lot more like a blacktail than the one on the bottom.

bow4elk · « **Reply #19 on:** November 12, 2008, 03:47:27 PM »

Quote from: Timberstalker on November 12, 2008, 10:17:53 AM

Good buck. Some of those buggers might be crossed up with muleys in that area

Yes, all the deer in the Klickitat/Goldendale area are cross-bred with muleys.

GREAT DEER!!

stlhdr1 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 12, 2008, 05:01:29 PM »

Bummer I notched my muzzle tag already, gonna be some nice bucks shot over there this year...

jae · « **Reply #21 on:** November 12, 2008, 05:12:49 PM »

Very nice Bucks, Congratulations!

blacktailer · « **Reply #22 on:** November 12, 2008, 06:03:02 PM »

Yeah, I didn't realize that was one of the "tweener" areas. That thing screams blacktail all the way from what I can see. Get him scored for fun's sake. You know it's a blacktail. Don't need to see your name in print to know you took a potential book buck. Great job!!!

nw_bowhunter · « **Reply #23 on:** November 12, 2008, 07:58:08 PM »

great buck.... good job

cascademountainhunter · « **Reply #24 on:** November 12, 2008, 08:08:59 PM »

nice blacktails..... are they all blackail or mixed?

sss5358 · « **Reply #25 on:** November 13, 2008, 07:08:15 AM »

Quote from: rudedawg1085 on November 12, 2008, 12:13:28 PM

Great buck!!, I shot a blackie in Goldendale during the modern season. It was the only buck I saw all week and figured it was a nice little 3x3 to take down..we were up in ceadervalley road, a couple miles west of goldedale. Where did you hunt??

We hunt east of Goldendale, east of highway 97 on some private land. Sometimes we hunt 3 creeks too.

sss5358 · « **Reply #26 on:** November 13, 2008, 08:27:02 AM »

Quote from: cascademountainhunter on November 12, 2008, 08:08:59 PM

nice blacktails..... are they all blackail or mixed?

Hard to say. The two we got appear to us to be pure Blacktails. Black tail, smaller ears and horn formation appears to us to be more blacktail than mule deer. My deer which to me looks more typical of an average blacktail over there was actually taken a few miles more east than my buddies on flat land,

skunkmaster · « **Reply #27 on:** November 13, 2008, 02:17:41 PM »

Beauty bucks you've got there!

andrew_12gauge · « **Reply #28 on:** November 13, 2008, 07:30:02 PM »

those are no different from the 30 inch blacktails that get taken in california only difference would be the way boone and crockett classify them that being said those deer and the ones in california are such a mux of blacktail and muley that now there are no pure strain in either place

fishunt247 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 17, 2008, 05:54:53 PM »

Great bucks nonetheless. I've hunted goldendale area since...forever. I've seen a boxey 26inch 4x4 muley-looking buck and a smaller 3pt with points coming off the main beam blacktail looking deer in the same push down there. They are a mix, with different characteristics showing up. But who cares, dang nice deer. Check out the post titled "buddies buck from this and his last years buck." Both are from the same area way west of highway 97 and they look totally different. They both had skinny mule deer like tails with black on them, and the racks...anyones guess.

firefighter4607 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 17, 2008, 10:44:09 PM »

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We hunt east of Goldendale, east of highway 97 on some private land. Sometimes we hunt 3 creeks too.
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Where east of Goldendale? My family owns land by Rock Creek, Oak Flat Road and also some land on the Columbia Hills above the John Day Dam.

sss5358 · « **Reply #31 on:** November 18, 2008, 11:02:14 AM »

Quote from: fishunt247 on November 17, 2008, 05:54:53 PM

Great bucks nonetheless. I've hunted goldendale area since...forever. I've seen a boxey 26inch 4x4 muley-looking buck and a smaller 3pt with points coming off the main beam blacktail looking deer in the same push down there. They are a mix, with different characteristics showing up. But who cares, dang nice deer. Check out the post titled "buddies buck from this and his last years buck." Both are from the same area way west of highway 97 and they look totally different. They both had skinny mule deer like tails with black on them, and the racks...anyones guess.

I checked out those deer. Man, they are nice. The area in the 2nd picture looks familiar.

Steve

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