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Community => Taxidermy & Scoring => Topic started by: Pete112288 on October 20, 2013, 04:25:04 AM

Title: Best guess P&Y and B&C scores on this blacktail?
Post by: Pete112288 on October 20, 2013, 04:25:04 AM: A co-worker got this beast on the last day of season less than 15 minutes till the end of shooting light. It is at his taxidermist right now and he should be getting an official verdict of its score soon. Anyone have a good guess on what he will score? Not a bad way to get back in the field, he haddnt hunted in almost 5 years.
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Post by: Timberstalker on October 20, 2013, 05:24:57 AM: 105-110
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Post by: Eli346 on October 20, 2013, 05:48:17 AM: Nice buck with good mass and neat eyeguards. You don't see them like that very often!
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Post by: Pete112288 on October 20, 2013, 05:58:08 AM: On the border of private and timber lands on the edge of the battleground washougal border. Would come into the apple trees in another co-worker's back yard. He the one with the property is primarily a meat hunter so he could never bring himself to hold out for this guy. He has trail cam pics of one that is taller with about the same eyeguards but not the extra point on the other side.
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Post by: blindpig on October 20, 2013, 06:07:02 AM: 120 :dunno:
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Post by: coachcw on October 20, 2013, 07:10:01 AM: sweet ! 118
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Post by: Ripper on October 24, 2013, 08:27:27 AM: 115ish. Nice buck.
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Post by: elkh8me on October 24, 2013, 12:44:19 PM: 120ish. Great buck
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Post by: D-Rock425 on October 24, 2013, 12:49:47 PM: 100 will make archery book and that buck is around 115
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Post by: throttlejocky20 on October 24, 2013, 03:22:52 PM: 118-120
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on October 24, 2013, 03:39:47 PM: Great archery buck!! Congratz to your friend :tup: I think he goes a comfy 115 gross
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on October 24, 2013, 03:42:50 PM: and I thought the minimum was 95 :dunno:
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Post by: JHutch808 on October 29, 2013, 03:55:09 PM: Thank you for the kind words and estimate on his size. I sure have no clue. I've been hunting for 20 years and not only was this my first buck with a bow, it was my first ever bigger than a forked horn and my first Blacktail buck. It was the first deer to give me a clean ethical shot in a number of years. 25yds through the heart and broke the opposing shoulder. He ran 40yds fast and crashed hard. Pope and Young minimum is 95 to get in the book and SCI is 85. Curious to find his score out. Think I'll have to move on to whitetails and muleys now.
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Post by: JHutch808 on October 29, 2013, 03:58:59 PM: Couple of different views.
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Post by: jackelope on October 29, 2013, 04:43:01 PM: 110-115
Great buck.
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Post by: bare.hunter on October 29, 2013, 04:45:35 PM: That looks like a larch mt buck some great bucks up there.
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Post by: Blacktail135 on October 30, 2013, 03:42:51 AM: 108".
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Post by: RadSav on October 30, 2013, 03:51:44 AM: He should get extra consideration for the awesome eye guards. Don't see blacktail like that too often. Very cool!

I've been staring at my 116 buck trying to make a comparison. He's a much better buck than mine, but deductions are a killer. I'm going to say 124 gross / 117 net. But, I haven't been close to getting one of these right yet :chuckle:
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Post by: JHutch808 on October 30, 2013, 05:05:10 PM: Good call bare.hunter, he is a Larch Mtn Buck. There are a few up on Larch even bigger that I've seen while driving during the off season over the last few years. The herd is pretty healthy in that area. My buck had almost an inch of fat on him and I've seen quite a few does with twin fawns this summer.
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Post by: Pete112288 on October 30, 2013, 05:17:08 PM: Ya know... blacktails always concieve twins, except maybe their first pregnancy, its just a matter of whether they both survive or not. Its in their genetics to have twins, survival odds are better, if one dies, then theres another
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Post by: RadSav on October 30, 2013, 05:21:00 PM: Quote from: JHutch808 on October 30, 2013, 05:05:10 PM
Good call bare.hunter, he is a Larch Mtn Buck. There are a few up on Larch even bigger that I've seen while driving during the off season over the last few years. The herd is pretty healthy in that area. My buck had almost an inch of fat on him and I've seen quite a few does with twin fawns this summer.

We spent four days a week scouting that general area this summer. Definitely some good bucks in there, but man those bucks that live on public access are night dwellers. You did good finding one in the daylight. And I have never seen one with eye guards like that! Seems to be an increasing number of bear in there too. Wish they would open up the firing range property. I've spoken with security up there and it sounds like a hunters paradise! But, even security isn't allowed to hunt it. >:( I'm thinking I need to find someone willing to take a bribe :chuckle:
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Post by: JHutch808 on October 31, 2013, 09:26:05 AM: I pretty much have only seen the big bucks at night except on a few rare occasions. This one was with a 2x3 that I spotted first. I saw a glimpse of this one as he took off taking the 2x3 with him. I paralleled them to where I had a small shooting window to the vitals. I barely saw antler but thought I was shooting the 2x3 since he was trailing. I was legal to take any deer and would've shot a doe if it was the first to present a shot. He stopped and looked at me, I released, heard the impact, he bucked in the air and bolted through the trees. I lost visual immediately but heard the running for 5-7 seconds followed by a large crash then silence. It was 27mins before sundown but rainy with dark cloud cover so I didn't see the impact. I waited 40mins, put on headlamp and tracked him all of 40yds from point of impact to where he did a front flip digging his antlers into the dirt. Imagine my surprise walking up and counting 6 points on the side not in the dirt when I was expecting 3. I guess it was the opposite of ground shrinkage.
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Post by: RadSav on October 31, 2013, 03:35:57 PM: NICE!!
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Post by: combs338 on October 31, 2013, 03:38:13 PM: :tup:
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Post by: FLIZZ on November 19, 2013, 06:46:48 PM: impressive eyeguards are what make the difference. 114
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Post by: fowl smacker on November 19, 2013, 07:14:27 PM: 106
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on November 19, 2013, 07:26:32 PM: Awesome buck!! Pretty sure it won't press past the 120 mark. Based on My dads which was 132 and lil larger larger.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 19, 2013, 07:34:42 PM: 115 would be my guess.
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Post by: trophyhunt on November 19, 2013, 07:43:10 PM: 123 before deductions. Gross score is all that should matter in my opinion. Congrats!