Author Topic: Nov. 2009: Oregon Columbia Blacktails!!! (Read 2169 times)

Steve H. · « **Reply #20 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:20:00 PM »

I miss but not this time.

...and I soon found a bit of blood indicating a liver hit.

I soon was feeling better since I found a whole lot of blood. It can be tuff tracking in this dense rainforest so I felt a little better about having a short trail when I found spots like this fern and also some bubbles in the blood indicating I also had gotten lung.

Steve H. · « **Reply #21 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:21:00 PM »

Sorry, I ALWAYS fall asleep after Thanksgiving dinner!

Steve H. · « **Reply #22 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:22:00 PM »

I did have some slow downs on the trail for several minutes at a time but I always found a renewed blood trail and at 150 to 175 yards found the buck with his nose augured into the ground where he fell while going down a steep embankment.

Steve H. · « **Reply #23 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:23:00 PM »

I really wasn’t sure what his rack looked like until I lifted his head but was please with the beautiful dark antlers and configuration more like a whitetail than a Columbian blacktail with 5 points on the right and four points on the left.

Steve H. · « **Reply #24 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:25:00 PM »

I looked him over and noticed he had a large portion of one of his hoofs missing some time in his past.

(sorry about the out of focus pic)

Steve H. · « **Reply #25 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:28:00 PM »

And then there's the autopsy. I caught his right lung on entry, the very top of his liver, and the broadhead was in the front of the stomach with the super-wide Zephyr Sasquatch broadhead...somehow it seemed a fitting head to use in the NW coastal rainforest!

Steve H. · « **Reply #26 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:30:00 PM »

And there you have it until the next one!

Time to go downstairs and help wifey make some venison sausage!

coaster500 · « **Reply #27 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:31:00 PM »

That's a good looking buck. I love Blacktails. I wonder how he lost that hoof.

Congratulations!!! Looks like a great hunt with or without a harvest.

Steve H. · « **Reply #28 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:36:00 PM »

Hey Jerry AKA "Weasel"....

Did you catch this statement I made earlier? "Back from checking ermine traps"...sorry about your relatives, lol.....

IndianaBowman · « **Reply #29 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:47:00 PM »

Steve, thanks for sharing and great looking Beanie!

Wannabe1 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:48:00 PM »

Chris Surtees · « **Reply #31 on:** November 26, 2009, 10:10:00 PM »

Very nice

Big Ed · « **Reply #32 on:** November 27, 2009, 07:35:00 AM »

Thank you for sharing!!

SpankyNeal · « **Reply #33 on:** November 27, 2009, 07:53:00 AM »

Great hunt and a gorgeous buck! Hope to hunt Blacktails myself one day. Thanks for sharing your adventure!

Ken

steadman · « **Reply #34 on:** November 27, 2009, 09:15:00 AM »

Those are some beautiful bucks Steve!! Looking forward to this years installment.

tradtusker · « **Reply #35 on:** November 27, 2009, 09:39:00 AM »

Awesome! you'v been busy this year

Michael Arnette · « **Reply #36 on:** November 27, 2009, 10:06:00 AM »

Nice bucks Steve, great pictures too!

wingnut · « **Reply #37 on:** November 27, 2009, 10:13:00 AM »

Steve that is a dandy. Congrats!!

Mike

Owlgrowler · « **Reply #38 on:** November 27, 2009, 10:45:00 AM »

NICE!

mmgrode · « **Reply #39 on:** November 27, 2009, 11:18:00 AM »

That is a monster blacktail! I sure do love those dark antlers. Congratulations, Steve!

MG


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