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I tagged out yesterday (Sunday, Nov 18) in Oregon's Applegate Unit muzzle-loader -only deer season. 13 inches high, 18-1/2 wide at the widest point. My 2nd biggest blacktail to-date. 40 yards, maybe? .58 cal TC custom shop Renegade firing a Speer .570 round ball, TC pre-lubed patches, and 120 grains of Goex FFg lit by RWS magnum caps. Tom
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Dang, TOM, that is one heck of a blacktail. He is a dandy, for sure.
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Thanks, guys. I grinning ear to ear.
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Wow that is a really nice blacktail! Congrats!
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Gorgeous blacktail. Congrats!
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Yup, dang nice blacktail!! Congrats to you on taking a fine buck.
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Congratulations! that is a fine buck for sure....
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Wish our blackies had racks that big. Congrats. Round ball? Don't those things knuckle or sprial upon exit of the barrel? Do your regs reguire that primative of a smokepole?
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For our hunts designated ML-only, powder pellets, sabots, optical sights, shotgun primers, dust covers, and bullets longer than twice their diameter are banned. Single-barrel guns only. .40 cal min for deer, .50 for elk.
The modern in-lines are allowed in regular rifle season if a person wants to shoot one of those.
For buck (fork or better) tags, we're only allowed one per person per year, so the ML tag is "instead of" a regular tag, not "in addition to" a regular tag. It changes which hunts you can do, not how many hunts you can do. This particular tag was drawing-only and I can generally get it about every third year, otherwise I hunt regular season.
Our antlerless tags are almost all "any weapon legal for deer" so you can do archery, centerfire rifle or handgun, muzzleloader, or shotgun all the same day. Antlerless tags are hard to get, not something you can draw every year. My 2 favorite units are 4 & 5 year waits between tags.
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4 or 5 years between tags?
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for antlerless, yep. 50-ish tags per unit per year for the 2-3 units I like to hunt. some are worse yet.
for regular tags, some are over the counter, a few are drawing but basically 100%, others can take more than 10 years worth of preference points.
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Nice blacktail. Would love to see #1.
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Ask and ye shall receive ... at least this time. This was 2008's deer, late October, regular season, marlin guide gun in .45-70. I wrote it up somewhere here. The rack is about 1/4th inch narrower and 2 inches taller. Weight ... couldn't tell a practical difference. I might suspect this later deer was a few pounds heavier.
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Nice blacktail, especially with that type of gear. Well done!
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