Blacktail bucks don't weigh squat

[Palmer]

Nice buck again Kent hunter, glad I missed out on the GR-A tag this year afterall....

 Got my meat back from Stewart's today, 102lbs processed off my buck. According the all the butcher chart's I can find, with an error margin of 10-15lbs, the buck was between 224 and 260lbs. Pretty broad range but gives a ballpark anyways.

Yes!!!  That's what I'm talkin' about.  Nice Buck.  I wish you had a full photo of him.

[Palmer]

You can walk right up to them, even if they're whitetails.

when they're tame you can...

Afraid not.  When there's weather comin' in and they're on the move, I've tracked 'em and walked right up to them, bucks included.  If you don't smell like a human and you give them a doe grunt, the young ones will stand there and stare at you.  I'm talkin' about in the wild.  Last year I walked up to within' 15 - 40 yards of 2 groups of whitetail deer within' 1 hour - a doe with two fawns and a 1 1/2 year old buck with two other deer.  I could have thrown a rock at them.

Last summer I was observing several blacktail.  The forkies and spikes will stare at you for minutes from 30 - 40 yards away.  Whenever I came across the 4 point he bounded off.

Rule #1 Don't let them smell you as everybody knows.  All the other tips are worthless without this one.

[bucklucky]

Somebody keeps changing the title on this post! This may sound like B.S. but Iup where I hunt I can get pretty close to does and small bucks using "The Can". I could have touched a doe with my rifle once, another time I saw a doe about 75 yards ahead of me so I hit the can  and kept hitting it as I walked towards it , got to about 5 yards and she moved to the side of the road, then another doe came off the cut bank right in front of me, went over to the other doe nudged her with her nose . They both rared up and started girl fighting with there hooves. This was within 5 yards of me. They broke up and the one doe went back behind me and the other one just stood there. Ive been able to get within 5 yards of does quite often doing that. The doe that I could have touched with my rifle is still around too. She never spooks when I come up the road.  I did call in my drop horn buck using the can that same year.

[Palmer]

Somebody keeps changing the title on this post! This may sound like B.S. but Iup where I hunt I can get pretty close to does and small bucks using "The Can". I could have touched a doe with my rifle once, another time I saw a doe about 75 yards ahead of me so I hit the can  and kept hitting it as I walked towards it , got to about 5 yards and she moved to the side of the road, then another doe came off the cut bank right in front of me, went over to the other doe nudged her with her nose . They both rared up and started girl fighting with there hooves. This was within 5 yards of me. They broke up and the one doe went back behind me and the other one just stood there. Ive been able to get within 5 yards of does quite often doing that. The doe that I could have touched with my rifle is still around too. She never spooks when I come up the road.  I did call in my drop horn buck using the can that same year.

Doe grunts or the can are very effective and a ton of fun.  I've had lots of luck that way as long as I use scent free detergents and sprays. 

[Dman]

  We do have wild deer on our SW Washington 75 acres, bordering timberlands and only three miles from NF lands. Cut up an apple and see how popular it makes you when there around. One time I could hear them, not even a deer in view, I cut up an apple I was about to eat and left an apple trail up to the fire where my cuz and I were sitting after we had been working for the AM. after about five minutes, one, two and a 3rd buck came out following the apple trail to within 30 -40 feet of us. They stood there a while until his dog freaked out and started barking.....

[Skyvalhunter]

For me the weight really only matters when I have to pack the thing out on my back!!! A nice heavy buck is fine and dandy until you have to bring a fork and start eating because you got it in your so called honey hole.

[Bigshooter]

In the town of Randle they use to have a big buck contest.  It wasn't the biggest set of horns that won it was the biggest bodied deer that won.  If your deer didn't field dress over 300lbs you didn't enter it.  The biggest one that i remember hearing about was 365lbs.  My grandpa and dad killed a few that were between 280lbs and 240lbs and they would not even enter them.  But the year my grandpa killed the one that weighed 280lbs, the deer that won the contest that year weighed 272lbs.  That was the lightest weight that ever won the contest.

[jackelope]

Somebody keeps changing the title on this post!

wonder who that could be bucklucky...

[bucklucky]

Gee, I wonder. Someone that got beat up alot in school.

[jackelope]

« Last Edit: October 31, 2007, 07:41:58 AM by bucklucky »

[bucklucky]

Thats bullchit! I changed it back to 200lbs

[Dman]

 I've heard of some brute's from Randle area too.

 -Lope, I did hear once of a 648lb blacktail buck shot down near Peachfuzz, somewhere in dipsnit County, story goes the hunter shot it in the leg real bad -it bled gravy.................     

[Palmer]

Does    er, oops, I mean Bigshooter know that he must have his Elk stories mixed up with his Blacktail stories.   

[HuntingFanatic]

the hunter shot it in the leg real bad -it bled gravy.................     

mmmm....venison gravy!

[billythekidrock]

the hunter shot it in the leg real bad -it bled gravy.................     

mmmm....venison gravy!