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Offline WapitiTalk1

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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2019, 02:58:07 PM »
Absolute toad 3nails, a huge congrats. Makes me want to head out for an evening hunt  ;)
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #31 on: October 21, 2019, 09:05:32 PM »
Got this one Sunday afternoon. Seems like it gets tougher every year. One might think I am a bad hunter but I hear vey few shots fired anymore so I am not the only one struggling. 9 days hunting and this was only the 12th deer seen.
Not proud of the shot I made but the moment the scope covers came off the lenses were instantly plastered with rain. I had a very difficult time seeing horns which should have been very apparent. First shot was high, second in the shoulder and I could tell he was hit bad but with only a hundred feet to the brush I put a third into his shoulder to put him down.
Then about 2 miles with the cart.
I was really kicking myself for that shoulder shot but surprisingly little meat wasted.
In the freezer so the works done now. On to elk!
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #32 on: October 21, 2019, 09:10:15 PM »
Nice buck!

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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #33 on: October 21, 2019, 10:41:13 PM »
Nice buck Bruce.
It's the same in our neck of the woods. Opening day you would hear at 5-6 shots at first light. Last year I didn't hear one shot all day. This year I did hear 2 shots.  Its definitely not what it was even 5 years ago.
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #34 on: October 22, 2019, 11:56:41 AM »
Less hunters in the woods?  The stats say yes, though on my evening hunt last night, I got surrounded by five or six other rigs coming into the area after I settled in to a spot.  I was expecting to have the place to myself.   I agree though, many fewer shots at first and last light than in recent history. 

Nice buck Humptulips!  Congrats!

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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #35 on: October 24, 2019, 01:01:43 PM »
Well my 11 year old got it done . 1st year hunting and executed a perfect shot. FYI hunters orange was removed for the pics.  Couldn't be prouder of this young man .

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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #36 on: October 24, 2019, 01:56:05 PM »
Little 3x from the 20th. We double downed on 3’s that day.
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #37 on: October 24, 2019, 10:24:21 PM »
Good ones guys!
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #38 on: October 24, 2019, 11:46:51 PM »
Average Decatur Island deer, second day of archery season.

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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #39 on: October 25, 2019, 05:21:37 AM »
What happened the first day?
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #40 on: October 25, 2019, 06:45:31 AM »
Lokidog - the smile on your face says it all  :tup:
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #41 on: October 25, 2019, 10:09:30 AM »
Great archery BT buck Loki, congrats!
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #42 on: October 25, 2019, 12:29:27 PM »
Guy from work got this one last saturday.

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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #43 on: October 25, 2019, 01:05:10 PM »
Now that's a 3pt  :drool:
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Re: 2019 Blacktail - Post em up Here!
« Reply #44 on: October 25, 2019, 01:44:34 PM »
Well my 11 year old got it done . 1st year hunting and executed a perfect shot. FYI hunters orange was removed for the pics.  Couldn't be prouder of this young man .
Nice deer bigbore40 jr.  I don't see many spikes that tall in my neck of the woods.
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