Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting How many guys hunt NW blacktails?

One area I hunt, north of Roseburg, gets into some hybrid blacktail/whitetail from that endangered (year, right! damn things are everywhere!) herd of WT's east of Roseburg... I've killed a couple 3x3's with horns typical of whitetail, but with a black tail and typical blacktail facial markings.

Can you post a Pic. of a good Sitka? Have looked at alot of the Pics. on here but still unsure of what is a good one.

Thanks

This is my biggest Sitka.

Yeppers, they're all Southern Oregon deer on the Western Oregon over the counter tag. Public land anyone can hunt there. None where killed within sight of a road.

We do kill our share of dinks too. Freezers do need fillin'.

Seafire Jr on right, and one of his friends from Scouts.




Looking down on top of the buck, to show girth..



what did him in...

shot at about 35 to 40 yds, 7mm Mauser in a Model 70 Featherweight, with a 115 Speer HP, behind a charge of 28 grains of SR 4759.

not noticeable in the pics, but buck had quite a bit of dried blood on his antlers, so evidently he had been fighting that morning..

estimated weight by Butcher shop, and local state biologist was about 210 lbs on the hoof..well fed suburban deer, courtesy of all of our California retirees.. taken on public land half a mile from my home..

Josephine County Oregon.

Good buck.
The photo of the rearend shows really well the difference between these Blacktails and a Muledeer.