Leftycarbon: Congratulations on the whopper buck!
Good for you.
I normally concentrate on Mule Deer Hunting but over the last 56 years of Deer Hunting have also killed many Blacktailed Deer and maybe a dozen Whitetails in various states.
This year I shot THE biggest bodied Whitetail I have ever taken - it was a 10 pointer and I estimated its live weight at 270 pounds and I estimated it to be 4 1/2 years old (maybe 5 1/2?).
He was a SW Montana "ranch Deer" having lived his whole life on cultivated crop fields (I am sure) and he was still "hog fat" at the beginning of the rut here.
I have Hunted that northern panhandle of Idaho before - one year I saw some of the rare Caribou that frequent that near the Canadian border area.
Thanks for sharing and many happy returns of the day.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
