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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: CoyoteCowboy on December 23, 2016, 05:39:52 PM

Title: Christmas buck?
Post by: CoyoteCowboy on December 23, 2016, 05:39:52 PM: Anyone ever arrowed a blacktail this late in the year? Still have a tag burning a hole in my pocket and have until Dec 31st to fill the freezer.

-Santa
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: NWghostgetter on December 23, 2016, 06:21:55 PM: Right there with ya! I made it out this morning for a few hours. Found 5 does but no shot opportunities. I'll be going out again on Monday. Good luck.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: PolarBear on December 23, 2016, 06:26:53 PM: Still hunting. All I am seeing is does and little bucks. Nothing worth shooting. Waited until the last day a few years ago. Might be the case this year.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: CoyoteCowboy on December 23, 2016, 11:56:18 PM: I can take 'any deer' so not going to be picky... last year I took a doe and turned the entire deer into jerky. It was incredible; amazing how good jerky can be with choice cuts. Post when something hits the dirt!
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Post by: hollymaster on December 24, 2016, 01:09:40 AM: Saw a huge doe the 2nd to last day of elk season. Made me wish I hadn't tagged out on the 8" spike I got in September.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: MADMAX on December 24, 2016, 05:12:53 AM: yup
same here
still hunting till the end.
no shots, most deer I see are close to houses on the way to my hunting "spots"
been running a dry spell, no shots
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: fishnfur on December 24, 2016, 04:08:04 PM: Last hurrah scheduled for late next week.
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on December 24, 2016, 04:12:31 PM: Never killed on Christmas, but have taken several in the last week including a couple pope and young qualifiers. Keep with it! Good luck!
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Post by: MRT on December 25, 2016, 08:31:27 PM: I harvested a doe on Friday (23rd). Had tenderloins for Christmas dinner tonight.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: CoyoteCowboy on December 26, 2016, 10:43:36 AM: MRT, you sure did! Congrats!
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Post by: metlhead on December 26, 2016, 01:45:10 PM: Someone lost this cute blackie. Just found his eagle pecked carcass beside my duckblind this morning.
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Post by: _TONY_ on December 26, 2016, 07:45:53 PM: Ouch :'(
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: huntnphool on December 26, 2016, 07:51:31 PM: Quote from: metlhead on December 26, 2016, 01:45:10 PM
Someone lost this cute blackie. Just found his eagle pecked carcass beside my duckblind this morning.

Idaho?
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:53:54 PM: :yeah:
:chuckle:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:54:49 PM: Hoping to poke a decent buck tomorrow after this windstorm. Wanna try out my new knife.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: huntnphool on December 26, 2016, 07:55:18 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:53:54 PM
:yeah:
:chuckle:

Damn blacktail are on the move. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: huntnphool on December 26, 2016, 07:56:06 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:54:49 PM
Hoping to poke a decent buck tomorrow after this windstorm. Wanna try out my new knife.

Good luck! :tup:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:57:00 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on December 26, 2016, 07:55:18 PM
Quote from: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:53:54 PM
:yeah:
:chuckle:

Damn blacktail are on the move. :chuckle:
:chuckle:
At least in Idaho you can legally pick up dead heads
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:59:46 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on December 26, 2016, 07:56:06 PM
Quote from: PolarBear on December 26, 2016, 07:54:49 PM
Hoping to poke a decent buck tomorrow after this windstorm. Wanna try out my new knife.

Good luck! :tup:
Thank you! It has been a very frustrating season. Maybe tomorrow I can weed through the spikes and does and catch something worth shooting doing something stupid. :dunno:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: coachcw on December 26, 2016, 08:15:04 PM: Tribal claim ! :tup:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: metlhead on December 27, 2016, 06:12:30 AM: Real close to Idaho. Actually found in Kalama.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: Timberstalker on December 27, 2016, 06:19:40 AM: Quote from: metlhead on December 27, 2016, 06:12:30 AM
Real close to Idaho. Actually found in Kalama.
Kalama, Idaho?
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: metlhead on December 27, 2016, 06:56:00 AM: No, but thanks for noticing the banded mallard
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: huntnphool on December 27, 2016, 10:07:56 AM: Quote from: metlhead on December 27, 2016, 06:12:30 AM
Real close to Idaho. Actually found in Kalama.

You do understand the implications yes?
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Post by: quadrafire on December 27, 2016, 11:03:50 AM: Is that a Griffon in the boat?
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Post by: metlhead on December 27, 2016, 11:19:02 AM: Implications of what? Took a photo, now the eagles can finish it. Not a griffon, GWP. Just wanted to show the OP that yes, some nice BT bucks are still cruising around, and folks are getting them. I apologize for getting a lame contrversy started. Good luck to the OP, keep at it.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: huntnphool on December 27, 2016, 11:40:28 AM: Quote from: metlhead on December 27, 2016, 11:19:02 AM
Implications of what?

It is illegal to pick up "deadheads". If you wanted a pic, you probably should have done it where it was laying and left it there. :twocents:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: CoyoteCowboy on December 27, 2016, 12:14:32 PM: A dead-head, banded duck and a WPG!? Now that is a nice boat!

I have a 8-mo WPG who is getting his balls chopped as we speak :yike:
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: The scout on December 27, 2016, 12:47:43 PM: With the head that clean I would most deffanitely say that's not from this late season no matter what was eating on it :twocents: I would say that dead head has nothing to do with blacktail still moving around
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: PolarBear on December 27, 2016, 06:27:02 PM: An eagle probably hauled it off to Idaho where he found it. ;)
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Post by: fishnfur on December 27, 2016, 07:06:21 PM: Yup. Them Blacktails ain't too big.
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on December 27, 2016, 07:19:36 PM: :chuckle:
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Post by: WALLEYEGUY on December 27, 2016, 08:18:50 PM: OMG the twist and turns of a thread, nice band though.
Title: Re: Christmas buck?
Post by: jackelope on December 27, 2016, 09:32:59 PM: Squirrel!!!