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moderator
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| Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Feature Article:
Blacktail Hunting, The Ultimate Challenge
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bitmasher
Joined: 27 Feb 2002
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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A good read, I imagine blacktail are pretty hard to hunt. If they are anything like mule deer, I'm sure they are tough to hunt in heavy tree cover.
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blacktailkiller05
Joined: 09 Dec 2002
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Blacktail are hard to hunt. i think they are the hardest deer to hunt. last year i harvesed a record book blacktail in carnation washington on a special permit. we hunted on one deer for eleven days and on the eleventh day i finally got him. |
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eajohnston1969
Joined: 04 Oct 2002
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Location: Portland, OR
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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that article is dead on about blacktail habits. that's why my Tag is still still in my hunt pack....
oh well, next season hopefully i'll draw an eastern Oregon mule deer tag..if not, it's back again to get schooled by "The Phantom".
ha ha ha!!! #!@$%@$#! |
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bitmasher
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| Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Congrats on the buck Blacktailkiller (handle kind of gives it away doesn't it? :wink:).
Were you hunting rifle or bow EA? |
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ontarget
Joined: 13 Mar 2002
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Location: N. CA
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 12:22 am Post subject: |
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blacktailkiller05, congrats!! send a pic to the mod so we all can view your trophy.
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eajohnston1969
Joined: 04 Oct 2002
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Location: Portland, OR
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| Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2002 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| i hunt the Rifle season. i have a bow, but i need to practice up a bit before i can seriously consider hunting with it. |
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Little Joey
Joined: 09 Mar 2003
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Location: California Coast
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Greetings fellow blacktail enthusiasts!
I live out on California's coastline, and while I have never had the opportunity to hunt white tail, my father has. His hunt was a winter time timber hunt, and he expressed to me that to him it was more difficult to hunt the whitetail there. Now it's quite possible that its just a different type of strategy, of course anything you havent been doing your whole life is going to be more difficult.
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blacktailkiller03
Joined: 03 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| they are hrd to hunt but you need to pattern them in the thick country, like up here in weter washington. |
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Billii
Joined: 27 Apr 2003
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Location: Oregon...it's raining prepare to swim!!
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| I agree w/Joey if you grow up thinking like a Blacktail then it's not really that hard. Unless you're incapible of thinking like a blacktail. I've been hunting them with my dad since I could walk. So like Gollum here we are "SNEAKIN!!" |
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Griz
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Billii, I grew up in Oregon (know Scio?), hunting blacktails since I was 12, although my "fondest" memories are of me walking through the thickest blackberry patch, rifle above my head, getting slashed head to toe by briars, just to keep track of a blood trail. I never realized how hard blacktail hunting was until I recently started hunting in Texas. Did you know that sometimes I may not move at all in a day, I just sit. Such a different hunting style.
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Billii
Joined: 27 Apr 2003
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Location: Oregon...it's raining prepare to swim!!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Yep I know Scio heheh when we were little we thought it was pronounced psycho :grin:
I just bagged a 3 point last sunday!! one shot & thud!! Heheheheh I like it when that happens :wink: It's kinda nice for a change. Usually for me even if I shoot em in the kill zone they run forever then keel over!! |
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redrebel66
Joined: 11 Oct 2003
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Location: orygun
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Oh you mean SC10. :razz:
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3pt.orbetter
Joined: 07 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Blacktails are extrmely sneaky. I have had them circle me to get down wind in thick cover to get my scent, and old timers have told me stories of blacktails quietly crawling through thick brush to escape. Phantom is they perfect name for these deer. |
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Billii
Joined: 27 Apr 2003
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Location: Oregon...it's raining prepare to swim!!
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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yep they're sneaky alright!! I've jumped them when it's not season in really thick brush while hiking & they just run a little ways & sneak around some more. I had one practically stalking me!! But I knew it was a deer cuz I saw it when I jumped it. hehe no really big kitties stalking me... I hope...
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