For all You Blacktail Hunters

[wtilenw]

This Buck was in my Dad's backyard today with a Doe. He lives in Northern California.
Idaho PRB

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[tg]

That is a nice one,nice even shape of the rack, I bet he would score in the 140's those old boys usually take to deep cover but get a bit careless when the rut starts, I have seen a couple that size up here but the shot was not there, maybe another time.You can see them quite often with a spot lite at night in the clearcuts that have good feed/heavy cover nearby, but they like to dissaper when season starts, you usualy haved to get down and go deep into the cover to find them, as far from a road as possible. Thanks for the pic, that was kind of what I was looking for this year :hmm:

 

[Little Wattsy]

This Buck was in my Dad's backyard today with a Doe. He lives in Northern California.
Idaho PRB

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THAT is a pig of a BlackTail!!!! Very Nice!!!

 

[tg]

Years ago when running bean harvester or corn pickers at night those big fellas would come out at night along the edges of blackberry and wild rose thickets, at first glimps the top end looked like an Elk, when trying to hunt for them much of the cover down in the valleys creeks and sloughs was so thick it took a machette to follow them, we would get one now and then when the hormones got the best of them, but the big ones are a real challenge.I have chased them for over 40 years and hope to get one like in that pic above, been close but no cigar.

 

[bigbore442001]

Not to sound dumb, but how would you hunt such a deer? I know how to hunt whitetails in the northeast but what about blacktails on the West Coast? I suppose they have different behaviors.

 

[agill]

Seems to reason that you can't find them in the woods so you hunt them where you see them...in the back yard. :rotf:

 

[Pork Chop]

Not to sound dumb, but how would you hunt such a deer? I know how to hunt whitetails in the northeast but what about blacktails on the West Coast? I suppose they have different behaviors.

Well, it looks to me like the best way to do it is to set up in the bass boat there, and ambush the deer as it ambles through the back yard... :blah: :rotf:

 

[tg]

Very slowly thru thick wet cover, sometimes one can drive a canyon of draw if there are enough guns to,cover the exits, some use tree stands to good use if the area is right,they will come to the rattle of horns but like to circle a long time before showing them selves, often it is more a case of defeating the elements and terrain than the deer.Some take fair sized bucks by watching the edges of cover and zap them from 300 yds, I gave up on that when I started ML hunting, usually the first and last 1/2 hr of daylight is the best chance to see the big ones,slow and easy is the best approach,then there is the odd one now and then that comes around the bend of a trail and almost runs over you.Like any other deer when you grow up around them the basics are handed down and picked up along the way.I agree the backyard method if leagal would be the best.In general their population per sq mile is a lot lower than other types of deer and this doesn't help.