blacktail deer pre-rut

[fishnfur]

My little brother saw a huge forky with eyeguards in the middle of a clearcut that was fairly new. Unfortunatly he somehow couldn't tell that there was a rock in front of its chest at 40 yrds with a scope. long story short, the deer got away and my brother is kicking himself.

My brother was in the same spot today, heard a shot and saw the same buck run over the hill and fall dead. had a huge spread. not sure who shot it, but hopefully they post it on here.

Hope that's not the same incident.  One shoots, thinks he missed - deer got away.  Another hears a shot, sees a buck running and fall dead - not sure who shot it.   Hope somebody retrieved that deer.


Heavy rains coming this afternoon.

[fishngamereaper]

  Sitting here drinking coffee at home. Kid doesn't feel like going out this am to try and fill is doe tag. He's getting pretty down about the amount of miles and lack of deer. I don't blame him. Full moon all night and quite morning so Im not totally bummed about not hunting. Maybe hit is this afternoon before the rain.

[flyfishWA]

My little brother saw a huge forky with eyeguards in the middle of a clearcut that was fairly new. Unfortunatly he somehow couldn't tell that there was a rock in front of its chest at 40 yrds with a scope. long story short, the deer got away and my brother is kicking himself.

My brother was in the same spot today, heard a shot and saw the same buck run over the hill and fall dead. had a huge spread. not sure who shot it, but hopefully they post it on here.

Hope that's not the same incident.  One shoots, thinks he missed - deer got away.  Another hears a shot, sees a buck running and fall dead - not sure who shot it.   Hope somebody retrieved that deer.


Heavy rains coming this afternoon.

different days, but he waited until the guy that shot it came over the hill and found it.

[fishnfur]

Good news!  Hate to see a nice buck wasted.

Had this young three in the back yard this morning.  He's spitting a red apple in the first pic.  Green are preferred, for whatever reason.  Had a doe with a yearling in the yard the night before.  It's not red hot in this part of Stella right now.

[blackveltbowhunter]

Weather had them on thier feet last night. Hunted some alder benches and finally cut the track and rubs of this big bodied buck, on a ridge above an old cut grade. With the weather I hoped he would be  in the open and moved to a over grown flat and caught him in the bottom of a cut on the edge of a deep draw. He was stinky and pretty swole.  He should have put some of that body fat into head gear.

[fishnfur]

Nice job.  Looks like big bases on a forkie?  Hard to tell.  Way to get 'er done!

[Birdguy]

Nice job on a good blacktail. The weather and mood has them moving!! There are literal skid marks in my brothers yard from bucks mounting does and the doe taking off. Not one but we found 8 or 10. The BUCKS are ready even if all the does are not. Good luck and be safe out there!!

[rudysts]

Was out on the golf course today at Mchord JBLM and this buck was stuck to a doe would not leave her another across the fair way was chasing

[blackveltbowhunter]

What a stud!

Nice job.  Looks like big bases on a forkie?  Hard to tell.  Way to get 'er done!

Yes. He has thick bases and thick heavy body. Not sure why he is stunted upstairs. Based on measurements he stacks up as a mature buck in this area. Not sure at this point if he would have been amazing in a couple years or just a big fork. Not that it matters at this point  But I will likely get this one tooth aged, out of curiosity.

[grundy53]

The switch flipped this morning where I was hunting. Very few deer were being seen let alone killed before this morning. Today they were moving. Had a big buck bird dogging in the middle of a mainline before day light. I shot a little 2x3 at about 9 am. I know of 6 other bucks that were also killed in the area all throughout the day.

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[flyfishWA]

My brother shot a mature big forky today and its neck was all swollen up and tarsal glands had almost black fur around them.

[RadSav]

We had one of our worst weekends in awhile.  Early rut doesn't usually get effected by the big rush of people.  But not sure if it was the 100 trucks that went by while I waited for the wife to finish her walk or if we were just in the wrong spot wrong time.  Think we saw less than a dozen deer.  Only two bucks and those were too small for what she was after during early rifle season.

[Spuddieselwwu]

Dropped my buck off at the butcher today... they had 35 bucks hanging by 3:30pm. Heard a ton of shots over the weekend, Saturday AM especially.

[grundy53]

Dad shot a big 2x3 today that weighed 203 lbs without the guts.

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[blackveltbowhunter]

Nice! That's a tank of a body!