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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: pat riotic on August 05, 2012, 12:48:56 AM

Title: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: pat riotic on August 05, 2012, 12:48:56 AM: Im young and have only hunted whitetail and muleys, but we just moved to the westside so bring it on blacktail!
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Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 12:51:38 AM: I started off hunting Muleys then Blacktails and now I'm hooked on whitetails. I've killed all three types but I have been hunting whitetails for the last 20 years or so. I just can't stop. :chuckle:

This is one of the biggest whitetails I've killed. The Muleys and Blacktails are pre dig. camera days.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: pat riotic on August 05, 2012, 12:54:13 AM: Quote from: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 12:51:38 AM
I started off hunting Muleys then Blacktails and now I'm hooked on whitetails. I've killed all three types but I have been hunting whitetails for the last 20 years or so. I just can't stop. :chuckle:
Ive been hunting whitetails for 3 years and i agree A TON OF FUN! Im still PUMPED to find me a decent blacktail though
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: pat riotic on August 05, 2012, 01:01:21 AM: Quote from: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 12:51:38 AM
I started off hunting Muleys then Blacktails and now I'm hooked on whitetails. I've killed all three types but I have been hunting whitetails for the last 20 years or so. I just can't stop. :chuckle:

This is one of the biggest whitetails I've killed. The Muleys and Blacktails are pre dig. camera days.
WHAT A DEER! :tup:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: marlin on August 05, 2012, 02:22:53 AM: wetside blacktails have pissed me off and wasted my time so far.. So im going to say Texas whitetails which is where Ill be and what Ill be after next year and every year thereafter! Ill be sitting in a permanent ground blind on private property and not trying to climb steep clearcuts and trudge through the thick stuff. I will just have to avoid prickly pears, mesquite thorns, and rattlers!
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on August 05, 2012, 02:50:58 AM: We had one of these polls in the last month. Mule Deer won by a long shot.
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Post by: wraithen on August 05, 2012, 04:55:36 AM: Saw a muley while flying over some farming towns east of yakima. Almost thought it was a juvenile elk at first. Didn't realize how big they got compared to the blacktails!
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 05, 2012, 06:58:52 AM: Quote from: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 12:51:38 AM
I started off hunting Muleys then Blacktails and now I'm hooked on whitetails. I've killed all three types but I have been hunting whitetails for the last 20 years or so. I just can't stop. :chuckle:

This is one of the biggest whitetails I've killed. The Muleys and Blacktails are pre dig. camera days.
Dandy NWBREW.... :tup:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 05, 2012, 07:13:06 AM: I would have to say Blacktail ...I have killed all three species in Washington. I love deer hunting no matter what species I am hunting but something about blacktail thats get in your blood and I just like it more ..Definately is the tougher of the three to get ...If your lookin for a big one ,,, Nothen cooler than seeing a whopper Blacktail standing there in a little foggy clearcut on a little misty day :chuckle: :dunno: :tup:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: steen on August 05, 2012, 07:56:56 AM: I would choose muleys mostly because of the terrain to hunt them in and I just love how majestic they look. I have not hunted for a whitetail (have a late hunt tag this year) but hunting in the lowlands just isn't as exciting as being in the mountains. Blacktails are what I hunt after being unsucessful getting a muley.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: jess on August 05, 2012, 08:13:38 AM: west side blacktails... I grew up hunting them and love it have killed four blacktail bucks people called once in a lifetime bucks one of them made b&c all time list.. I live in whitetail/muley country now but still dream about big blacktails...
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Post by: stickbuck on August 05, 2012, 09:03:08 AM: Gotta be the mystique of the Blacktails for me. I love still hunting through the ferns and having such close encounters. Being in the woods with bow in hand during that last week October is what I'm looking forward to. :tup:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 09:08:52 AM: Quote from: steen on August 05, 2012, 07:56:56 AM
I would choose muleys mostly because of the terrain to hunt them in and I just love how majestic they look. I have not hunted for a whitetail (have a late hunt tag this year) but hunting in the lowlands just isn't as exciting as being in the mountains.

Don't fool yourself on that one. We've killed big whitetails up over 4000 ft. elev.

I will say that some of those big Blacktails....are really big.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on August 05, 2012, 09:39:29 AM: Quote from: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 09:08:52 AM
Quote from: steen on August 05, 2012, 07:56:56 AM
I would choose muleys mostly because of the terrain to hunt them in and I just love how majestic they look. I have not hunted for a whitetail (have a late hunt tag this year) but hunting in the lowlands just isn't as exciting as being in the mountains.

Don't fool yourself on that one. We've killed big whitetails up over 4000 ft. elev.

I will say that some of those big Blacktails....are really big.

x2 I have seen whitetail as high as 6,000 feet.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: Kola16 on August 05, 2012, 09:54:55 AM: Quote from: DBHAWTHORNE on August 05, 2012, 09:39:29 AM
Quote from: NWBREW on August 05, 2012, 09:08:52 AM
Quote from: steen on August 05, 2012, 07:56:56 AM
I would choose muleys mostly because of the terrain to hunt them in and I just love how majestic they look. I have not hunted for a whitetail (have a late hunt tag this year) but hunting in the lowlands just isn't as exciting as being in the mountains.

Don't fool yourself on that one. We've killed big whitetails up over 4000 ft. elev.

I will say that some of those big Blacktails....are really big.

x2 I have seen whitetail as high as 6,000 feet.

:yeah: I have seen a very good population at 5500 feet. I have hunted all three, and I chose whitetails. There are quite a few of them so I can always be seeing action, and they actually are scared of me unlike a muley :chuckle: Muley would be my last choice :P
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: Hunterman on August 05, 2012, 10:16:49 AM: The BLACKTAIL :tup: It's the hardest deer there is to hunt. My largest deer that I have killed is a mule deer in Teanaway ( Iron Creek area) I have killed a round robin ( spike - 4point) in all three species. Just my :twocents: in how to rank them from hardest, to easiest would be Blacktail, Mule Deer, then Whitetail...

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: jess on August 05, 2012, 10:25:23 AM: I agree these whitetails are simple compared to a mature blacktail.. As for that matter a big mountain muley will walk circles around most people and you will never know it..
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Post by: runamuk on August 05, 2012, 10:39:10 AM: Muleys for me hoping this is my year.....maybe...if the hunting gods are shining on me....gonna start making sacrifices and giving gifts to them to be sure :)
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: PolarBear on August 05, 2012, 10:54:04 AM: Both 4 and 2 legged kind.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: Hunterman on August 05, 2012, 10:59:03 AM: Quote from: jess on August 05, 2012, 10:25:23 AM
I agree these whitetails are simple compared to a mature blacktail.. As for that matter a big mountain muley will walk circles around most people and you will never know it..

Agree :tup: My first year hunting mule deer, I had a big 4 point play hide and seek with me for 4 days, until I got smart and came in above where I was jumping him.. I thought that I saw him under this big tree, snuck down to within 60 yards, and let him have it with my trusty 30-30..His head dropped, but his antlers stayed in the tree :yike: turned out it was a damn blacktail SPIKE :bash: The old timer that was showing dad and I the area said that was the first blacktail he's seen there in 40 years.. When I got to the spike, the 4 point was not 20 yards :bash:

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: Kowsrule30 on August 05, 2012, 11:36:55 AM: MD is my favorite to hunt because of the country.....But BT are the hardest deer I've ever hunted and still do if I strike out on MD.... I've got 2 WA WT and it just doesn't interest me very much....
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Post by: johnr060 on August 05, 2012, 01:32:57 PM: Blacktail all the way! Cant beat hunting the ghosts of the forest! :tup:
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Post by: upwind on August 05, 2012, 02:07:58 PM: I always in joyed blacktail deer hunting on Kodiak and surrounding islands after a big snow storm.
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Post by: Annette on August 05, 2012, 02:56:17 PM: Black tails are the hardest for sure!
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Post by: 400out on August 05, 2012, 04:02:28 PM: big ones :chuckle:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 05, 2012, 04:30:44 PM: Any deer hunting is good. I love my bench legs. Best of both worlds plus we are seeing more and more whitetail hybrids as well. So I pick all 3 :chuckle:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: blacktailcody on August 05, 2012, 05:18:02 PM: Blacktails with a bow is the best way to go.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: silverslayer12 on August 07, 2012, 07:41:02 AM: I have hunted all 3 species and must say that blacktail are the hardest. whitetail are the spookiest. and mulies are the easiest to find. none are easy to hunt by any means. ive yet to kill a mule deer so one of my goals this year is to get within range and drop one like a sack of rocks!!! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on August 07, 2012, 01:27:32 PM: I like hunting the deer in my back yard. And I've always lived on the coast so it's blacktails for me. But I have to admit I had fun hunting whitetails last year.
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: jackmaster on August 07, 2012, 02:22:50 PM: i have hunted blacktail my whole life, i have had chances to go hunt muleys and whitetail but when it comes right down to it the blacktail call to me in my sleep, once they get their hooks in you there is no way to keep myself from pursuing them, they are the gray ghost of north america, to take one on his terms is a hell of a task, and i am talkn about gettin in the nasty thick ass stuff and rootn him up, with the cold soaking rain chillin you to the very core of your bones, and then you see that glass eye staring at you and then it disapears without a sound.... no funner deer to hunt :twocents:
Title: Re: Favorite Deer to hunt?
Post by: mtman on August 07, 2012, 08:30:10 PM: 400 says big ones. I would have to lean toward spikes. Im pretty sure I am smarter then some of them.