Your Biggest Fork Horn Buck?

2rocky · Feb 3, 2006

What's the biggest Fork horn buck you've ever shot?
Mine was the buck I got with my bow this year in Sonomma County. 19.5 wide, 16.5 high with 10" g2's, and 2" eyeguards.

larrbo · Feb 3, 2006

A couple of years ago I kept seeing two large forks on my hunting trip. I don't pull the trigger anymore unless its a good 4x4 or better. Well....I never saw a really nice deer and I had always wanted to take one of those big forkies I have seen over the years. So with an hour left in the season I went back to where I had been seeing the buck and luckily saw him. He was about 22" wide and around 19" high.

Dmanmastertracker · Feb 3, 2006

If your talking body size, I shot a forky with one countable eyeguard up in Champion in '98 that weighed 235 pounds.

cahuntr · Feb 3, 2006

This is not my buck but it is my brothers. It was almost 22 inches wide.http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/User_files/43e3d82a3a417fa6

eelgrass · Feb 3, 2006

All my forked-horns have been the standard every day garden variety. I do have one that looks to be about 16" wide. Kinda spindly though.

Dman....235lbs? you do know this is the blacktail forum, right?

If that was a blacktail that is huge!

Steve

tylercreek2 · Feb 3, 2006

mine wasnt a blackie but a muley was almost 21" tall 19" wide the back tines were 10" ,,, was 112 pounds hanging weight at the butcher biggest blackie fork was smaller than that

DEERSLAM · Feb 3, 2006

My best forkie was also my first buck. Shot him south of Covelo in '74 He's 17" wide by 19" tall with 4" and 5" eyeguards.

DEERSLAM · Feb 3, 2006

Oh, and I shot a muley this past season that was a heavy horned 22" wide fork.

Dmanmastertracker · Feb 5, 2006

LOL Steve, yup a Blackie for sure. Pierce County Wa. That was our best estimate, gutted weight was 172 pounds. There are some different methods to get a live weight estimate out there.

HogWild · Feb 6, 2006

Here's my biggest fork, 20" wide with 1" eyeguards.

MuskegMan · Feb 7, 2006

This would be mine. 17.5" wide x 10" high.

This is considered a rare color phase (grey)for an Alaskan Blacktail. I'm kicking myself for not caping it. I'll never see one like it again, I'm sure.

MM

ironhead · Feb 8, 2006

That is a beautiful coat!

coonhound40 · Feb 8, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Feb-08-06 AT 09:53PM (MST)[p]I shot this buck about 10 years ago in Lewis County WA. I had my 8 year old son with me, we went out for a couple hours after work, walked in behind locked gates a couple miles.

One of the things I used to do when I took him hunting was to ask him what our standards would be that day. I said "are we shootin spikes, forky's or 3 point or better?" I figured if he was with me we were a team, this was a way for him to participate. Typically he would say spike or better because he wanted to be there when I shot one. On this day he said "3 point or better".

About an hour into our hunt I saw this buck and could see it was wide and high. I didn't even take a second look, I just raised up and popped him. As we were going down do find him I told my son "it's at least a 3 mabey even a 4 point". Well to my suprise it was the largest forky I ever killed. My son didn't care if I broke the rules that day, it was his 1st time on a harvest.

19 1/2" wide 14" tall, field dressed 195lbs.

canyoncrosser · Feb 9, 2006

I shot a 18 in. forky with a 3 in. drop tine off one side, and another that was only about 15 in. wide but was at least that tall and had close to 6 in. bases and carried his mass through out.

Jeremy1746 · Feb 13, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Feb-13-06 AT 06:11PM (MST)[p]My buddy shot a dandy this last season, let me see if i can dig up a pic.

bowguy · Feb 14, 2006

Id say my biggest is somewhere around 18".
But this monster blacktail was shot on a hunt I went on with my buddy and his nephew. 25" blacktail.
Bowguy

MAP · Mar 14, 2006

Not a blacktail, but still a big forky

hntnfsh67 · Mar 15, 2006

Bowguy,

NICE deer! That boy is starting off the right way. Must have been great to be there.

MAP,

Unique whitey. Never seen one like that. Did you have him mounted?

Matt

"Opportunity is missed my most people
because its dressed in overalls and
looks like work"
Thomas Edison

Slide · Mar 15, 2006

My father has a Blacktail he took when I was still swinging left to right. It measures 23" wide x 20" high, it has no eyeguards but pretty good mass. The base has lot's of warts on both sides. Really nice set of horns. He also has another set that is a little smaller probably, 20"W x 17"H alos no eye guards. Bith of these bucks were taken out of the general area, I'm not sure how many years apart.

MAP · Mar 15, 2006

Actually I didnt kill that whitetail, and that is not me in the picture. I enter several different deer contest in the area each year, and I pulled up to one to check out the leaderboard. The guy in the picture had brought this buck in to get scored. He won the biggest 6 catagory with a gross score of 136"+. Hes the biggest 6 I've ever seen.

hntnfsh67 · Mar 16, 2006

MAP,

Sorry, thought that was your pic/deer. Thanks for posting anyways truely a unique buck 136" for a forkie(western count) unreal!! What was the spread on that pig? Wonder how big he could have gotten?

Matt
"Opportunity is missed by most people
because its dressed in overalls
and looks like work."
Thomas Edison

polarbear · Apr 3, 2006

Well, he's a 2x3, but I still consider it a forkie. He was well over 200 lbs. Not bad for a Washington forkie.

Eric

eelgrass · Apr 4, 2006

Dang nice, Eric! That is a brute!

Steve

3fletch · Aug 23, 2007

I killed one two years ago that is a fork by spike and is just under 24" wide. It was a Bench-leg (Blakie and Mulie) and then last year I took a fork by fork that is 19" wide and will make the Oregon book for Cascade blacktail @ 100". Both deer were old deer just bad genetics.

If I could figure out how to post pictures I would.

3fletch · Aug 23, 2007

LAST EDITED ON Aug-23-07 AT 02:42PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Aug-23-07 AT 02:35?PM (MST)

this is my buck from 2005 and it is a benchleg (mulie and blacktail) From Oregon. It was in the Keno unit and is a Fork by Spike!!!! Yes thats right a 1X2 and is 24" wide.