Let’s see your best Washington buck

[kirkl]

2015 Special permit buck

[Karl Blanchard]

My best from 2021.

Awesome buck! Curious how the mass measurements would be done on a deer like that with double eye guards? I have a deer with similar stuff going on

the second eye guards are considered an extra point so the H2 measurement would take place at the narrowest point between the G1 and G2 just as if the second eye guard wasn't there.

[HUNT JR]

My best from 2021.

Awesome buck! Curious how the mass measurements would be done on a deer like that with double eye guards? I have a deer with similar stuff going on

the second eye guards are considered an extra point so the H2 measurement would take place at the narrowest point between the G1 and G2 just as if the second eye guard wasn't there.

 

[Pathfinder101]

I think I posted this buck before on the forum but don't remember where? This is the only photo I have, taken by the newspaper, I didn't have a camera with me when we were hunting. I was in my teens, I had watched this buck many times through the summer and was lucky enough to see him on the second Saturday of early season. A single texas heart shot as he was running straight away, but he went a little ways and it took an hour to find him, one of the worst hours of my life. After watching him through the summer and then being able to find him during season, this is still one of my most prized trophies.

There were two other bucks of roughly equal size with him, but my friend (on his first day going hunting ever) got buck fever and tried to shoot but forgot to take off his safety.

That's a bruiser Dale!  The whitetail I posted on the first page was mounted by Scott's Taxidermy as well.  He did good work.  Almost 40 years later mine still looks pretty good...

[High Climber]

My best from 2021.

Awesome buck! Curious how the mass measurements would be done on a deer like that with double eye guards? I have a deer with similar stuff going on

the second eye guards are considered an extra point so the H2 measurement would take place at the narrowest point between the G1 and G2 just as if the second eye guard wasn't there.

Makes sense 

[jackelope]

2015 Special permit buck

Every time permit application time rolls around, I think of this picture. Such a great buck.

[Pathfinder101]

2015 Special permit buck

Every time permit application time rolls around, I think of this picture. Such a great buck.

...makes it a little easier to spend that $13 plus change...

[chukardogs]

I've only seen one other buck over the years that had double horizontal stickers like that on Kirkl's buck. 2005, mid-August, my hunting partner and I were looking for a new spot to camp and were about 5000 foot elevation on the mountain we've been hunting for years. We had a buck come tearing down a trail, stop stare at us and turned around and went back up the trail. The double stickers almost identical to that was what caught both of our eyes. That's the only other buck I've ever seen like it. A few years later, my hunting partner found the skull and horns in a watering hole below our camp and though he was just a shell of what he once had been, he still had the double stickers on his frame. We hoped he passed those genes on but we never saw another buck similar on the mountain. What a dandy! That's a true, "buck of a lifetime!"

[jackelope]

2015 Special permit buck

Every time permit application time rolls around, I think of this picture. Such a great buck.

...makes it a little easier to spend that $13 plus change...

I’d spend $26 and change if that’s what it took.

[bearpaw]

I think I posted this buck before on the forum but don't remember where? This is the only photo I have, taken by the newspaper, I didn't have a camera with me when we were hunting. I was in my teens, I had watched this buck many times through the summer and was lucky enough to see him on the second Saturday of early season. A single texas heart shot as he was running straight away, but he went a little ways and it took an hour to find him, one of the worst hours of my life. After watching him through the summer and then being able to find him during season, this is still one of my most prized trophies.

There were two other bucks of roughly equal size with him, but my friend (on his first day going hunting ever) got buck fever and tried to shoot but forgot to take off his safety.

That's a bruiser Dale!  The whitetail I posted on the first page was mounted by Scott's Taxidermy as well.  He did good work.  Almost 40 years later mine still looks pretty good...

That's great, my buck still looks good too!

[dvolmer]

My daughter Leisha’s and my daughter Kayla’s best Washington bucks. Both grossed over 180. Some of ya have seen these before. I can’t make up my mind on my best Washington buck.  I’ll keep thinking……

[jjhunter]

Some great bucks on here! 

Sadly, I’ve never killed a big buck in my home state.

[92xj]

Some great bucks on here! 

Sadly, I’ve never killed a big buck in my home state.

I don’t believe that statement. No big whitetail in the past few years?

[jjhunter]

Nothing like on this thread.  Washington does have some impressive deer!

When I was in high school, we had a kids move to Colfax from Entiat.   He would always try to get me to go back hunting with him…you could still hunt in November back then.   He was not a particularly good hunter, but one year he came back with a “migrator”.   It was 30” wide and probably an upper 180’s deer.   I wish I would have done that but I was too caught up in the local Palouse deer hunting community.

[92xj]

Nothing like on this thread.  Washington does have some impressive deer!

When I was in high school, we had a kids move to Colfax from Entiat.   He would always try to get me to go back hunting with him…you could still hunt in November back then.   He was not a particularly good hunter, but one year he came back with a “migrator”.   It was 30” wide and probably an upper 180’s deer.   I wish I would have done that but I was too caught up in the local Palouse deer hunting community.

The thread is “your best buck”, not the biggest bucks in the state  .   From what I remember, your buck was/is a freaking tank of an eight point and I want to see another picture of it, dang it!
And don’t we all wish we could go back in time and take up someone on a hunting offer.   I was caught up in a whitetail hunt for a few years that I was dedicated to, that ended roughly and during that time had offers to go do elk things.   Looking back, should have done the elk stuff and had a chance at some large bulls.  Still haven’t killed a bull or huge buck, plenty of cows and deer though.  One day…hopefully