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Subject: P&Y Blacktail 5X4
This awesome non-typical Blacktail was taken 7/17/2011 A Zone Archery on a private ranch that we were hunting in Mendocino County near Laytonville, CA. The archery hunter is from Placerville, CA. The buck is about 18 inches wide and 22? inches high and has extremely heavy mass at the bases as well as throughout the entire rack.
You can not get a single hand around the bases? and the horns have a unique non-typical upward cluster of points like I have never seen before on a Blacktail buck. The right side almost got that 5th point but you couldn't hang a ring on it. There was a bigger and wider buck about 26 inches with similar style non-typical horns taken in the area back in 2004. Looks like this ?big boy? got some of that buck?s non-typical gene?s. We estimate this buck pushing 150 P&Y for a non-typical Blacktail. I will leave it up you guys to chime in and give up some estimated score?s. Then we will see the actual official score when this buck hits the P&Y Book.
The day of the hunt it was overcast with a cloud cover and a heavy drizzle in the morning. Not your typical day of hunting CA, A zone archery when temps usually are mid 90?s pushing 100 degree?s F. This has been an unusually cooler hunting season so far in Northern CA. It paid off big time for this hunter with the cooler temps and overcast sky?s keeping the deer active all day ... We even got some serious rain showers that lasted a couple of hours at a time. This crazy weather paid dividends on our hunt as the ground and grass was moist making things nice and quiet for a stalk. The Placerville Hunter was on an evening hunt when he glassed a group of bucks off in the distance. As he glassed the bucks he figured out his approach and stalk. He drove around the ridge, parked, dropped down and around the hillside beginning his stalk. When he got to where the bucks should have been they were gone
The hunter started walking out of the canyon as dusk approaching and it would be dark by the time he got out of that steep canyon. He went in a different direction up and around the hill side. All of the sudden this ?big boy? and four other smaller bucks he was looking for jumped up from lying in the tall grass at 20yds. The rest is history for this hunter? and now he has a trophy of a lifetime.
It was a great hunt for us at this ranch as well as for this Placerville hunter. We took my 9 year old Grandson Logan and were teaching him the ropes all decked out in his full camo, backpack and camelback. At 4 AM it was pretty early getting him up?but no complaints and he didn't get back to camp until after dark most days. We were lucky enough to get him his first experience?s and view at watching his dad stalk down to within 20yds of a nice ?forky? 2X2 which was also lying in tall grass. My son stalked down in his full scent-lok gear that we use for out of State archery elk hunting. There was a 20 mph wind at his back blowing right to that buck. The buck never scented him. The buck finally heard him, got up at 20yds and stared at him ?front on?? ?NO SHOT? . Then the buck turned and trotted angling up hill. My son gave him an ?awkkk? grunt and stopped him broadside at 30yds. Meat on the table?My son decided to try for this buck mostly for our Grandson?s experience of seeing the stalk and kill shot as well as the cleaning and dragging of that buck back up hill to the road ending with the skinning back at camp. It was a great experience for me to watch my boys get those forever lasting memories. We?ve all been through it. Now we have an experienced little ?soon to be archery hunter? in our group This made the trip for us as we couldn't have scripted it any better
I tried to post this Story and Pic for several days but am having problems with my Kodak ?Easy Share? photo program which is not so easy anymore. Plus I am an idiot with computers. I finally sent this Pic to Scott and he was kind enough to post the story and Pic for me to MM Blacktail and California Forums.
?THANKS SCOTT?
Trophyhunter,
You can't shoot a big one if you shoot a little one first
)))))----->
Subject: P&Y Blacktail 5X4
This awesome non-typical Blacktail was taken 7/17/2011 A Zone Archery on a private ranch that we were hunting in Mendocino County near Laytonville, CA. The archery hunter is from Placerville, CA. The buck is about 18 inches wide and 22? inches high and has extremely heavy mass at the bases as well as throughout the entire rack.
You can not get a single hand around the bases? and the horns have a unique non-typical upward cluster of points like I have never seen before on a Blacktail buck. The right side almost got that 5th point but you couldn't hang a ring on it. There was a bigger and wider buck about 26 inches with similar style non-typical horns taken in the area back in 2004. Looks like this ?big boy? got some of that buck?s non-typical gene?s. We estimate this buck pushing 150 P&Y for a non-typical Blacktail. I will leave it up you guys to chime in and give up some estimated score?s. Then we will see the actual official score when this buck hits the P&Y Book.
The day of the hunt it was overcast with a cloud cover and a heavy drizzle in the morning. Not your typical day of hunting CA, A zone archery when temps usually are mid 90?s pushing 100 degree?s F. This has been an unusually cooler hunting season so far in Northern CA. It paid off big time for this hunter with the cooler temps and overcast sky?s keeping the deer active all day ... We even got some serious rain showers that lasted a couple of hours at a time. This crazy weather paid dividends on our hunt as the ground and grass was moist making things nice and quiet for a stalk. The Placerville Hunter was on an evening hunt when he glassed a group of bucks off in the distance. As he glassed the bucks he figured out his approach and stalk. He drove around the ridge, parked, dropped down and around the hillside beginning his stalk. When he got to where the bucks should have been they were gone
The hunter started walking out of the canyon as dusk approaching and it would be dark by the time he got out of that steep canyon. He went in a different direction up and around the hill side. All of the sudden this ?big boy? and four other smaller bucks he was looking for jumped up from lying in the tall grass at 20yds. The rest is history for this hunter? and now he has a trophy of a lifetime.It was a great hunt for us at this ranch as well as for this Placerville hunter. We took my 9 year old Grandson Logan and were teaching him the ropes all decked out in his full camo, backpack and camelback. At 4 AM it was pretty early getting him up?but no complaints and he didn't get back to camp until after dark most days. We were lucky enough to get him his first experience?s and view at watching his dad stalk down to within 20yds of a nice ?forky? 2X2 which was also lying in tall grass. My son stalked down in his full scent-lok gear that we use for out of State archery elk hunting. There was a 20 mph wind at his back blowing right to that buck. The buck never scented him. The buck finally heard him, got up at 20yds and stared at him ?front on?? ?NO SHOT? . Then the buck turned and trotted angling up hill. My son gave him an ?awkkk? grunt and stopped him broadside at 30yds. Meat on the table?My son decided to try for this buck mostly for our Grandson?s experience of seeing the stalk and kill shot as well as the cleaning and dragging of that buck back up hill to the road ending with the skinning back at camp. It was a great experience for me to watch my boys get those forever lasting memories. We?ve all been through it. Now we have an experienced little ?soon to be archery hunter? in our group
This made the trip for us as we couldn't have scripted it any better I tried to post this Story and Pic for several days but am having problems with my Kodak ?Easy Share? photo program which is not so easy anymore. Plus I am an idiot with computers. I finally sent this Pic to Scott and he was kind enough to post the story and Pic for me to MM Blacktail and California Forums.
?THANKS SCOTT?
Trophyhunter,
You can't shoot a big one if you shoot a little one first
)))))----->
