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Quote from: Griiz on November 02, 2015, 11:56:26 AMThe buck in the attached image was a lowland blacktail from Jefferson County. If you look at the picture, you can see he was built like a bull and is my largest bodied blacktail, although I have shot a few that were close to his body size. He weighed 190lbs hanging with his skin, head, front feet, bloodshot and fat trimmed off. If you estimate the weight of the removed body mass, he was easily 250 plus pounds. I think like people, deer from the same species come in a variation of sizes, even from the same area of harvest.That's what I'm talking about. There really are some really massive blacktail bucks out there and this is an excellent example of one. I've seen two and heard of a few more, they are not common at all, but they exist. You say this one is built like a bull, that sounds a lot like the massive one I have seen the last couple of years, he looks like a Welsh pony standing next to another mature buck and a mature doe standing next to him looks positively diminutive.
The buck in the attached image was a lowland blacktail from Jefferson County. If you look at the picture, you can see he was built like a bull and is my largest bodied blacktail, although I have shot a few that were close to his body size. He weighed 190lbs hanging with his skin, head, front feet, bloodshot and fat trimmed off. If you estimate the weight of the removed body mass, he was easily 250 plus pounds. I think like people, deer from the same species come in a variation of sizes, even from the same area of harvest.
Quote from: JDHasty on November 02, 2015, 02:17:36 PMQuote from: Griiz on November 02, 2015, 11:56:26 AMThe buck in the attached image was a lowland blacktail from Jefferson County. If you look at the picture, you can see he was built like a bull and is my largest bodied blacktail, although I have shot a few that were close to his body size. He weighed 190lbs hanging with his skin, head, front feet, bloodshot and fat trimmed off. If you estimate the weight of the removed body mass, he was easily 250 plus pounds. I think like people, deer from the same species come in a variation of sizes, even from the same area of harvest.That's what I'm talking about. There really are some really massive blacktail bucks out there and this is an excellent example of one. I've seen two and heard of a few more, they are not common at all, but they exist. You say this one is built like a bull, that sounds a lot like the massive one I have seen the last couple of years, he looks like a Welsh pony standing next to another mature buck and a mature doe standing next to him looks positively diminutive. The thread is about San Juan blacktails, but this deer is from the mainland is it not? Seeing a deer this size in the San Juans would be extremely rare.
No skeptism on other areas, other than a blacktail deer hanging at a butcher shop with no head, hide, guts or legs. To answer the question asked by the thread starter, the san juan island area bucks are dinks and don't compare to mainland or south sound bucks, in order to do a head mount a taxidermist would have to use a coyote head. They really are that small.
