Smartest deer?

[tmike]

This year they all were!

[Woodchuck]

in my humble expierience the smartest deer hands down are Harvard deer, Yale deer in a close second

[1bowhunter1]

BLKtail hands down are the hardest!  If you chase the same Blktail day after day....you will find out that he knows what you are going to do.  They dont have a patern, at all!  Now if the Blktail is in full rut that is a hole new ball game....they make mistakes just like Men Do! 

[257 Wby Mag]

Mature deer of all species posses their own unique challenges, just a matter of capitalizeing when one makes a mistake....

[Pathfinder101]

in my humble expierience the smartest deer hands down are Harvard deer, Yale deer in a close second

Nope.  Westpoint Deer.  Or Naval Academy Deer if they are tracked for the Marines. 

They learn tactics...

[Axle]

Now if the Blktail is in full rut that is a hole new ball game....

The "ball game" being nadds and the "hole" being............sorry, just can't say it.

[EastWaViking]

I talked to a hunter yesterday, who summed it up better than anybody.  (and he's hunted all three species a lot.)  "The reason a big black tail is hard to find isn't because it's smart...it's because they are so dumb, most of them are shot as spikes and two points!"   

I think he's probably right, I remember little black tail bucks standing there at 30 yards or less letting me miss them several shots in a row with my single shot 20 gauge slug gun when I was little.


(there, that should restart this thread)   

[littlebuf]

nope sorry viking only piss poor hunters shootin the little guys. all ive ever shot is branch antler blackies

[alanger]

muleys got strategy. but i think mature whitetails are fairly smart. they spook really easy. think muleys are a little more curious.

[Track-er]

nope sorry viking only piss poor hunters shootin the little guys. all ive ever shot is branch antler blackies

Here we go again. I don't consider myself a piss-poor hunter and I have shot spikes and two-points and not felt bad about it.


                          Mike

[littlebuf]

sigh..... OK, to all you that take life waaaaaayyyy to seriously. i retract my comment, it was taken out of context and i have already "made up" with viking. i was trying to be a smart ass (believe it?) in return to what i saw as a smart ass comment from viking made in a mostly smart ass thread. i thought vikings was funny, you all got hurt feelings from mine. sorry. there its done

[littlebuf]

Ive removed my bickering at viking post but will leave up the other comment.

[shag]

The smartest bucks around are the ones that die of old age.  Period.   Seen some damn smart whitetails and blackies.  Flip a coin

[rasbo]

this guy wont let me find him,theres a lot of big bucks they just wont move sometimes

[Houndhunter]

hard to say, id say for sure a trophy blacktail is the hardest to kill because of the terrain they live in. whiteys are def more spooky, but they get so aggresive when the rut kicks in compared to other deer theyre can be pretty easy to shoot. seen some really tricky mulies too, so i really dont know