Smartest deer?

[EastWaViking]

Nice bucks track-er so, what are your thoughts?

[EastWaViking]

Here are mine, the muley is Wyoming, but the other two are WA.  I'll have to scan my WA muley's, but the best one is just a 18" 4x

[Track-er]

I think whitetail are the hardest to hunt and I live on the west side.


                 Mike

[Kowsrule30]

all ive got is blacktails, white tails are to easy so i dont hunt them 

 

So true.... My Uncle quit hunting WT because they were too easy.... Now he hasn't got a deer in a while chasing Mule and BT...  

[Sneaky]

Seein as I've hunted blacktails more than whitetails and mule deer combined, and I've killed 5 mule deer, 5 whitetails, and 0 blacktails, I'd have to say blacktails are the toughest to hunt. HOWEVER, I have seen big whitetails do some of the weirdest things, those deer have a very keen memory and the big ones don't hardly let their guard down. They are near impossible to sneak up on and once they turn hard-horned don't often hold the same pattern for long/ in daylight hours. I missed a HUGE blacktail at 225 yards, and it stood there and let me poke at him four times (turned out my scope had been bumped and the mounts were loose  ). Blacktails a lot of the time act more like mule deer, but the terrain they live in and few numbers make them a harder animal to get IMO. Mule deer bucks get less credit than they deserve for their wits as well. An old muley buck can be smart before the rut hits.  

[EastWaViking]

Well put Sneaky, I pretty much agree with you 100% 

[Sneaky]

Well put Sneaky, I pretty much agree with you 100% 

Those deer in the big woods east of your place are some of the smartest in the country

[Firstlight]

IMO. All mature Blacktail bucks can read. They all pick up a copy of the regs, and know when to hide.
You always see them before the season gets going. Typical pattern every day. Same pic times on the game camera. Then BAM! GONE. The only thing we get going for us is when they are rutting hard.

[Dadbear]

Mature blacktail.

[EastWaViking]

Mature blacktail.

Your opinion definitely counts.  Post a pic of your big WT AND big blacktail!

(I said your opinion counts... not that it's correct) 

[WAPITIHUNTER]

Did anyone ever administer an IQ test to actually determine which is smarter. I wonder if you did laboratory testing and put rose bushes at the end of a maze which deer would get it figured out first?

[EastWaViking]

Did anyone ever administer an IQ test to actually determine which is smarter. I wonder if you did laboratory testing and put rose bushes at the end of a maze which deer would get it figured out first?

 

[Kowsrule30]

Did anyone ever administer an IQ test to actually determine which is smarter. I wonder if you did laboratory testing and put rose bushes at the end of a maze which deer would get it figured out first?

Definitely the BT... Ate all the tulips too... 

[BLR 243]

Blacktail no question. Shockey agrees.

[WAPITIHUNTER]

 

 

What the heck did that masher score? What a HOG!