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Shiit I’d love too. Most folks don’t realize how tough it is in western Wa. There’s a reason you don’t see many folks post pics consistently killing good bucks up here. It’s not like Alaska where you can hunt em 6 months outta the year, from velvet through the rut, or Montana where you can hunt through the rut. There’s days where I won’t see a deer, days where I’ll see 2 does, and days where I’ll see 25 deer and a handful of bucks, but those days are very very few, if any during season. Season ends on Halloween, the last 3 days are the time to be in the woods all day. Weather plays a huge part in deer movement here. Rut is the same time every year, the wild card being the weather, to keep the does up moving, and hopefully a buck chasing all horned up. That being said our tags are expensive but when you kill a mature blacktail in western Wa, it’s damn rewarding. Last years Halloween buck, seen 1 doe earlier in the morning, killed this buck about noon, ran out of the timber scent trailing a doe, that’s all it took...

Very nice!! Neat looking deer in country very, very different than I've ever spent time in.

Ya it’s a brushy biitch in most places, clear cuts are your friend

When they get gun barreled out and lose all that fat, they can be a little rough.

Those I think I could hunt. However, I need a fence or two to hop...

Oh you’ll fit right in!!! Shiit bullets, no turrets, fence hopping, goat fuuck cartridges, dunno how I get by every year!!! Grin

I'd even hit the kiosk in the mall up for an airbrushed "Haybale and Crockett" orange T-shirt so as to be safe!

That would be badass!! Don’t forget the tape for the muzzle, might jam your barrel in the mud bailing outta the boat!!! Grin

As a aside, our deer taste like shiit imo. I grind backstrap and all into summer sausage and pepperoni

I do that with most all the deer I shoot. Pronghorn and elk get different treatment.

Fo sho... Antelope is damn good groceries, freezer full of elk aint bad either.

I've two full, and the wifey has a bull tag which means dead elk. I gotta eat more elk than I have been to clear space! (3-5 pounds weekly)....grin....

That’s not a bad place to be Greg.... grin

Chicken or pork sounds great about once a week though. .grin...

Not a huge Blacktail...But a solid shooter on a clear and sunny day...It was nice not being soaking wet for a change...😎

I've been in that position before. Put 2 elk, 3 lopes, and 2 whitetail in the freezer then found out I drew a cow bison tag! Jerky from burger is a good way to free up freeboard in the freezer...