Blacktail Pictures

LIK2HNT · Dec 29, 2004

Hi gens (Brian)

In answer to your post, people need to post more pictures of there blacktails to keep this post active. Everyone ( you too ) needs to post pictures, both old and new pictures.

Here is a few to get things started.
Hope you enjoy.
First is the buck I missed early this archery season and spent the rest of my archery and rifle season searching for. Still looking for this one to get a hard horn picture. Maybe in a few months I will find his sheds when he drops them.

2x2 trying to hide

Busted by 3x3

Tall heavy 2x2

Close up of buck

Nice 2x2

Close up

Nice young 2x2

Anoyher shot

2x2 heading to rocks to bed down before it gets to hot

21 inch 2x2

one waiting to grow up

Happy Holidays everyone
Bill

treekiller · Dec 29, 2004

Here's a pic of the Blacktail buck I killed with my bow on Dec 11th. I rattled him in to less than 15 yards. treekiller

treekiller · Dec 29, 2004

Here's a buck I rattled in last month here in Oregon. The first and only buck I've photographed with my Oly digital.

treekiller · Dec 29, 2004

This buck had just been in a fight, and lost! He came in to the "horns", but became distracted when another buck approached from my left.

treekiller · Dec 29, 2004

This buck came in on a dead run and only stoppped when I dropped the antlers and swung the camera around. He then circled me at 10-12 yards pretending that I wasn't there.

treekiller · Dec 29, 2004

This buck is handsome with his stark white face. treekiller

LIK2HNT · Dec 30, 2004

Treekiller

Nice buck and great accomplishment with a recurve.
Picture #2 is my favorite, nice looking buck.

Maybe gens is right and not to many people are interested in this forum. It is to bad. I would not mind seeing pictures of old and new kills.

Nice to know someone has good luck ratteling in blacktails. Here in central California we get to hunt in the 90 degree plus summer weather.

Happy Holidays
Bill

Blueoak · Dec 30, 2004

Great pictures! I am always here lookin.

brushstomper · Dec 31, 2004

I am always here looking in also. It is great to see some good pics. I will try and scan some old pictures and see if I can get them posted. I would like to see more pics of any blacktails new or old. Thanks.

treekiller · Dec 31, 2004

Dang, I couldn't imagine hunting Blacktails in HOT weather! That wouldn't be much fun. I like seeing photo's from other areas.

This photo is a little dark. But it's of a buck I killed in 1990 in the Oregon Cascades. It was a cold, windy, snowy day during mid-November when I found some big tracks following small tracks. I was still hunting thru this old clearcut and just walked upon a doe at about 20 yards. She eventually moved and this buck walked into the opening and stopped broadside.

treekiller · Dec 31, 2004

This buck I killed in 2003 in the Northern Oregon Cascades. Lots of fresh snow, and I followed large fresh tracks into a flat with big timber when deer started approaching. This little buck was tailgating some doe's.

treekiller · Dec 31, 2004

My son Luke and I were out rattling bucks to photograph a couple years ago, and got this brute in to less than 20 yards. I think Luke was 9 at the time, and this was his first experience rattling bucks.

eelgrass · Dec 31, 2004

Great pictures guys! I too live in Blacktail country, here in Humboldt Co. CA. It's good to see some of the "after season" bucks running around.

I really like those big Mule Deer but like the song goes...."If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"

There really is nothing better than a trophy blacktail buck to get your blood boiling. They are so secrative and elusive. Really frustrating to hunt sometimes.

I passed on a small spike/fork the first week of rifle season and then drew a blank. It's getting so brushy around here, I'm going to be scouting some new areas next year.

Thanks again for the pictures, really enjoyed!

Steve

gens · Jan 1, 2005

Awsome pictures, great to see so many responses, I got my wife a nice digital camera for X-mas, so I can steal her rebel and do some photo hunting during the off season. I will do my best to post some pics. Keep the threads and pictures coming.
Gens

manny15 · Jan 2, 2005

hey treekiller" Nice bucks, were planning on moving the family to Medford this spring, I can't believe I actually, Finally convinced my wife we needed to move 30 miles north!...after 15 years...

treekiller · Jan 3, 2005

Manny...good luck with that move! I've never done any hunting down south in the Medford area, but I've heard many good things about it. I pretty much hunt the northern Cascades, Clackamas County in particular.

treekiller

eelgrass · Jan 3, 2005

Treekiller'

I like your username! "Treekiller"

I had a bumper sticker on my truck back when I worked in the woods, and the Earth Firsters were hounding us. It read:

THE ONLY GOOD TREE IS A STUMP!

Steve

treekiller · Jan 3, 2005

eelgrass...I cut timber for a living. One day an unfortunate individual shoved a video camera in my face and asked "how it felt to be an environmental criminal?" My boss and some of the other guys began calling me a "tree killer". LOL

So when I started messing around on hunting websites I decided to use it since many of the good hunting related names were spoken for.

TK

JR · Jan 3, 2005

Here are some old ones from this year hope you guys enjoy,Again!!!

WyoAces · Jan 4, 2005

funny...none of these bucks showed up when i was hunting em this year. great pictures guys!

HogWild · Jan 6, 2005

LAST EDITED ON Jan-07-05 AT 02:43AM (MST)[p]Here's some pics of the Blacktails i've taken. The top one has forked eyeguards. Hope you likem!

ridgewalker · Feb 6, 2005

Great photo's of some REALLY nice bucks!! Thanks for posting!!

Lien2 · Feb 10, 2005

treekiller -
Can you put me on any one of those bucks?! I'll pay you what little I can!

Lien2

bowhuntinnut · Feb 10, 2005

LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-05 AT 05:30PM (MST)[p] Hey i want to go too!!! that would be cool to rattle them in like that !!! Then stick him with my bow!!!

treekiller · Feb 11, 2005

There isn't an open season when and where I photograph those big bucks, unless it's photography season!

bowhuntinnut...do you have much success stickin' animals with your bow? I could probably sharpen one of my longbows and spear a Blacktail, but I have better luck with arrows!

Just funnin' ya.

treekiller

Sheepshooter · Feb 13, 2005

Great pictures everyone thanks for sharing .

LIK2HNT · Feb 23, 2005

Nice pictures everyone.
JR, I think your son is spoiled for life, good job.
Here are a few more pictures I took three weeks ago when I went out with my daughter scouting for turkeys. I was hoping that they would have dropped their head gear by then but they had not. We saw 10 bucks with full head gear. Within the last week and a half they all dropped. Spent a few hours hiking looking for sheds, but only found 8 old antlers so far. Hope you enjoy.

Bill

bowguy · Feb 24, 2005

Hey Guys and/or gals,
Love all the pictures. Hear are a couple from this last season. Both rifle bucks in Northern California.
I just got a new computer recently and need to scan some pictures as soon as I get them in I will post about 25 years of great blacktail hunting in Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Thanks for sharing your accomplishments,
Cheers Bowguy
P.S. If you any of you guys want to shoot Blacktails in Northern California PM me at [email protected]

theridge · Feb 24, 2005

The first buck is awesome. Are these CA eastside or westside bucks? The terrain and habitat look like transition range on the east side. Any other views on that first buck so we can see the cheater on the bucks left side?

RACKMASTER · Feb 25, 2005

looks like the east to me! maybe tehama co.
can't say sure
rm

theridge · Feb 25, 2005

Like the Manton, Paynes Creek area??

bowguy · Feb 27, 2005

LAST EDITED ON Feb-27-05 AT 05:05PM (MST)[p]Good guess guys.
Yep eastern shasta county blacktails. Both came from about 10 to 15 miles east of Redding. Here is the only other picture I have of the 9x9, it was harvested by my hunting partner.
Bowguy