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Cool buck, chit hole state And WA isn't ?
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How do you know this? Looks like high desert X zone to me. Big old buck, congrats to the hunter! For sure. That looks like a Bodie Hills buck. Definitely an Eastern Sierra deer.
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Nice deer for sure.
Can anyone ID any of the plants in those pics? It appears the dead taller brush is the result of a fire perhaps, or the drought is REALLY bad there. Looks very fire scar type lower growing plants, but I can't make out what they are.
I've seen some of the "prairies" in Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendicino counties, actually more than some of them, and those don't appear like that, but perhaps after one of the big fires has roared through one the pics here are what they look like a couple of years later.
Never seen a blacktail like that either, but wonders never cease if that's what it turns out to be.
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I've been in/on lots of "prairies" and have never seen one like that. A far as fire/burn scars go, I see no evidence of burning or charring. And if you look closely at the righthand edge middle of the third pic, you'll see mountains in the distance. That is not a view from Mendocino County and Covelo is pretty much in the middle of Mendocino County.
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I've been in/on lots of "prairies" and have never seen one like that. A far as fire/burn scars go, I see no evidence of burning or charring. And if you look closely at the righthand edge middle of the third pic, you'll see mountains in the distance. That is not a view from Mendocino County and Covelo is pretty much in the middle of Mendocino County. Craigster, yeah, that third pic looks a bit different. I didn't think that terrain looked like any of the prairies in the coast range. But the dead bushes in the first two pics look really similar to some areas up here about 2 years after a fast burn through grassland that is starting to get some junipers growing. Except those ain't junipers. I'm trying to figure out what they might be if those pics are from the east side of the Sierra, and can't come up with anything, or why they are dead now, unless they're up fairly high and the fall has made them drop all leaves already.
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Cool buck, chit hole state And WA isn't ? Who said WA isn't a chit hole?
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How do we know its from California?
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I've been in/on lots of "prairies" and have never seen one like that. A far as fire/burn scars go, I see no evidence of burning or charring. And if you look closely at the righthand edge middle of the third pic, you'll see mountains in the distance. That is not a view from Mendocino County and Covelo is pretty much in the middle of Mendocino County. I thought weird too for A California blacktail with that terrain. Too me me more mulie and the guy's wearing pretty heavy clothing for an October California hunt . probably wrong though, just speculating great deer none the less
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Look at the ears...the head and the terrain. No mistaking it for a Blacktail.
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It's a great Muley Sal but again how do you know it's from California?
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It's a great Muley Sal but again how do you know it's from California? I can't guarantee it's origin. I see it's been posted on a California hunting page on Facebook. Every once in a while California puts out some gigantic mule deer.
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It's a great Muley Sal but again how do you know it's from California? I can't guarantee it's origin. I see it's been posted on a California hunting page on Facebook. Every once in a while California puts out some gigantic mule deer. Gotcha. And yes it do.
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Yessir, that’s a nice one 😊
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Look at the ears...the head and the terrain. No mistaking it for a Blacktail. My bad thought you insinuated that was a black tail as posted other California black tails in past
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Modoc county I 'm bettin. And mule deer will breed with blacktail.
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Beautiful beast of a buck. Ears look 100% mule deer to me?
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Modoc county I 'm bettin. And mule deer will breed with blacktail. Yup, looks a lot like the Likely Tables area. I killed a real nice buck a few years back in X2, just a couple miles South of the OR border. Mule Deer / Blacktail cross = Bench Leg
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