any blacktails today

[farfrompar28]

Dropped this guy yesterday at 2pm to while my buddy was gutting his deer. It was a tough 10 foot shot.

[fishnfur]

That looks like the one I missed yesterday in your neighborhood.  Came in to a rattle, peeking at me from behind a Christmas tree.  All I could see was his nose/eyes, black crew cut, and a bit of bone.  Stupidly, I tried to shoot him in the nose at about 35 yards and choked on the shot!

I'd like to see the old fat boy that left these tracks last night.  Looks like he was following a doe and fawn in and out of 15 year-old reprod.  Splayed toes, even on firm substrate, presumably from dragging all that weight around for so long.

[JDHasty]

Dropped this guy yesterday at 2pm to while my buddy was gutting his deer. It was a tough 10 foot shot.

I did that once.  My buddy and I were gutting a deer and both of us looked up and saw a big two point coming straight towards us.  We snuck off into the brush and just let him keep coming and when he was twenty feet away I gave him a load of 00 buck in heart/lungs.   

[JDHasty]

Nice Buck!  There are some very old bucks in North Bend area that never get bigger than a 2 pt, you can tell that boy is a old mature animal

Nice old blacktail!

I agree, I have seen some great big, heavy rack, two points.  They are not "that" common where I hunt, but there are usually a couple hanging around if I really go looking for them.  One year I am going to have one mounted, I think they are great looking especially when they lack brow tines.

big old 2pt

That's what I am talking about!  Big mature two-point blacktail bucks are pretty classy looking deer.