Dman tags out, best blacktail ever

[billythekidrock]

Nice buck.  I'll call it a 4x4.  Looks like his brow tines are over an inch to me.

C'mon..it is a great buck. A great 3x3 plus eyeguards...

[jackelope]

it is a great 3x3, with or without eyeguards

 

[Dman]

Why are you giving bucklucky the credit.  I'm the one who gave you 105, he quoted 109.  Hell, I measured the whole rack from my computer armchair 200 miles away with my speial digital measureing tape.  I should get the $20.

 True, true, OK. I say you and Bucklucky should split Jack's $20.... Who Moderate's for Moderator's though?? 

 Seems we also need a "global mediator"......

[wannahunt]

Very nice DMAN. That looks a lot like the buck I took in that same area about three years ago. Same three point configuration but not quite as big as yours. Mine also was a very heavy buck for blacktail. Were you close to the around the powerline that we talked about?

[wannahunt]

By the way Dman if you go to the taxidermy link and look under subject "blacktail mount" you can see what a 110 blacktail looks like. I had it officially scored.

[Dman]

 Wannahunt, PM sent.

[Intruder]

Beautiful buck!  I luv the mass he has.... he just looks BIG!  I believe he's a 3x3 though.

[Dman]

 Eyeguard's are 1" and 2", respectively. I never did weight the buck, but I can tell you, I shot a buck up in old Champion/ Kapowsin around 1998, hanging weight at 178lbs, live weight approx. 235 and I packed it and loaded it up without too much difficulty. I could not budge this buck before it was cleaned out. I weigh 225 and it was MUCH heavier than myself. We trimmed so much fat off of the chest/ rib cage area, it averaged over an inch thick in places. I've also packed out a 185lb bear (cleaned out) on my back recently. After we boned out the mid-section, we split up the two bags of meat, Eric took the haunches and I took the front quarter's. Even at that we still ended up having to set one quarter down to haul the other out and come back for the other quarter. I would have included a larger body shot, but I hit him pretty hard in the mid-section, not pretty, didn't think it would be appropriate to post.

[boneaddict]

Darrell, I have to tell you that my father raised a gentleman, and out of respect for him, you, and the kind spirit of this board I have held my tongue, but you have to quite quoting numbers like these.  I'm about to pounce like a vulture on a dead carcass.  You packed a 185 pound bear on your back.  10 feet, a mile...what?  You are talking straight up with a large farm boy that has packed some amazing loads, including huge moose quarters that were scaled.......anyhow then the weight of a deer.  I mean no way for this to be a pissing contest, but I doubt my buck weighed 250 pounds.  I'm glad for you that you got a nice buck.  I'm even gladder that its your biggest, but quit ruining it by pounding your chest.  Its a very nice heavy respectable three point blacktail.  No record book deer, not the type you have security guards posted on,  but the type you can smile about.  I maybe making a fool of myself, but I call a spade a spade, fault me for it.  NICE DEER!

[arrowflinger]

Wow............It is a nice buck.

[YellowDog]

Very nice buck.  Who cares what it scored or how much it weighed.  IMO most people suck at judging the distance of their shots and it is probably even harder to judge the weight of an animal just by looking and trying to move dead weight.  I don't think weight factors into any scoring method anyway.  If it did, guides in baby blue shirts would be hauling scales around in their packs and trying to figure out how to get live animals to step on strategically placed scales before their hunters arrive. 

My buck had a lot of fat on him but I'm sure he didn't weigh that much but he damn sure felt like it when I was packing/lifting him.  Congrats on a great deer.  I love the color of the antlers

[Ray]

I agree the weight and score do not matter. At the same time... anyone suggesting their unweighed blacktail buck is 200+ lbs might as well expect to be questioned on the matter.

[Dman]

 I suck at all of the above. See, I didn't finish the story. This was a Hanford buck, retarded in to stupidity, that's the only reason I got him... I was using Verne Troyer's camera (That's why it looks bigger than the actual 62lbs he weighed). I was actually driving a road and hit him with a Buick, no skill involved there, elusive little sucker's in the headlight's though. I guess than, you can also tell by my numerous photos of my hunt, that I'm also a midget if the deer was 62lbs... Cat's out of the bag now I guess...
 
 Thanks all for the 'positive' comments -D

[YellowDog]

Huntwa, I agree with you (and Bone).  It is reasonable to question a claimed weight of over 200 lbs when it doesn't seem to have been weighed.  Its a nice big buck but doubt the claimed weight.  My buck also had a lot of fat on him but not enough to hit 200lbs.  I wouldn't even want to guess what he weighed. 

Dman, the buck is sweet.  I am in no way trying to take away from the skill necessary to kill that buck or slam you at all.  I shot my buck at about 50 yards.  Mine was not a hard shot to make.  People could debate what is more difficult, shooting a deer at 400 yards or stalking one to within 40 yards all day long with no clear winner.  You've had some great success and I you deserve all the credit for it.  Great job!

I worked retail sporting goods when I was going through college and I remember one indian guy coming in to buy ammo.  He was bragging about the bull elk he shot.  He said he missed 3 shots at 700 yards while the bull was standing still but as soon as it started running he made a perfect shot right in the vitals.  His conclusion was that he was such a great shot that he just couldn't hit an animal unless it was running.  WTF?? 

[Ray]

Dman, I wouldn't be upset it's just that I have never laid eyes on a blacktail buck that weighed over 225 lbs. I know that there are plenty of critters that break the statistical norms in one way or another but that's how I feel about the weight. It's not an attack... As I previously mentioned I thought it was a nice buck and being a person who has not filled their tag I am also jealous as well.