Crawling Blacktail Bucks

[Huntboy]

Fairly common.

[BULLBLASTER]

Whitetails will do it too.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Sounds like a new hutin technique to try.

[PolarBear]

Whitetails will do it too.

[frogman]

I have seen this happen.  to avoid people I watched a blacktail crawl into a gully.  very intuitive little buggers

[jmx369]

I had it happen also. I jumped a buck and saw it go into some thick brush. As I approached the brush, I could hear something moving inside of it, but it was too thick for me to see through. I laid down on the ground to get a better view farther into the thicket. That's when I saw a deer crawling through what looked like a rabbit tunnel in the brush. All I could see was legs and belly. I couldn't tell if it was the buck or not. Even if I was able to tell if it was the buck, I would not have shot him out of respect for his cunning and clever survival tactics.

[Bofire]

 :)seen them lay thier head down flat on the ground too. stretch out like a snake.
LOL
Carl

[asl20bball]

Never seen a BT do it. Have seen a WT do it and it was a big old boy. I guess they get big for a reason.

[Greg Mullins]

Hell ya ,Iv been telling people for years they crawl.I had a 4 point just last year let me walk about 10 feet from him then he decided to crawl away,The only thing I saw was his horn tips.Hes on the wall now.At least now 1 person will believe me.

[TopOfTheFoodChain]

Hell ya ,Iv been telling people for years they crawl.I had a 4 point just last year let me walk about 10 feet from him then he decided to crawl away,The only thing I saw was his horn tips.Hes on the wall now.At least now 1 person will believe me.

  Seen them crawl a couple times, I didn't get lucky enough to get a shot with the old smokepole.

[hermiston]

I've seen 3 different mule deer bucks do it.  I shot one of them.

[Skyvalhunter]

What about the other 2?

[dreamunelk]

Fairly common.

The have advanced degrees in escape and evasion!  That is why some of us call them the "Demon Deer".

[buschcrawler]

I have a friend who works a tower in a prison with a large population of Blacktails in the area he said one year during the rut he watched a huge buck belly crawling while chasing does it would never stand just belly crawl thru the tall grass. I believe this happened infront of me tonight. Has anyone ever heard of this?

i've seen this a few times had one start crawling away from me at a couple yrds. thought it was a coyote then it stood up and bolted scared the piss out of me!!!

[Elkrunner]

I was in winthrop about 15 years back and watched a 4 point crawling on his belly about 30 yards below a hunter.  The guy never knew he was there.  I ended up telling him later that night and the crazy guy asked me why I didn't shoot him!