Yeah , I know I have been a little hard to get a hold of this fall, I promised myself I would get out and do a little hunting for a change.
Well I started out with a small mule deer buck in the early season , then a nice black bear before guiding hunters and now I took this beauty of a blacktail buck in the late season as I was fortunate to draw a late season Willamette 600 tag and got to hunt with my good friend John Fenter, thanks John!
This buck was taken with a 58# Raptor Signature longbow , wood arrow and a Simmons Treeshark, all three taken with that same broadhead. Notice the funny rack on the right side. (http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x295/photos4work/blacktail2012hero.jpg)
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Very nice congrats
great!! Congrats! He's on my bucket list!
Oh man cool looking buck! Congratulations
Nice buck Ted. :thumbsup: :archer2:
nice deer!
Congrats on the buck!
I always forget to put in for that willy tag!
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Nice one Ted. I sure miss hunting the blacktails this time of year.
Mike
I like those unique racks--Nice!
Glad you found time to get out and hunt even with old-man river hounding you about building him a bow.
Very nice!!
He's got some neat character. Very nice!!
Thats awesome!
Congrats Ted!
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Beautiful rack on that deer! Congratulations on a very successful season! :thumbsup:
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
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I swear the Blacktail has got to be the most beautiful deer. Congrats.
Great buck, Ted! :thumbsup:
Sweet buddy!! (that second pic was kinda big)
Nice buck I have always liked antlers that are a little different.!
Nice one!
Way to go Ted!!!!!!
very nice , congrats :thumbsup:
Thanks all , Charlie I resized the pic , see if thats good???????????????
Yes , hunting Blacktail this time of year cant be beat Mike.
Wow, those are really neat looking deer. Never hunted blacktails. Congrats on a great trophy. :thumbsup:
Nice buck Ted! Congratulations!
Congrats Ted , beautiful buck
congratulations and great job!
Congrats!
Bisch
Awesome buck! A species I hope to hunt someday!
Nicely done Ted...congratulations!
I love seeing those blacktail bucks, as you well know! :thumbsup:
Very nice deer sir!
Cool looking buck congrats!
cool buck, I like the tweaked looking horns. I like the bucks with character.
I thought the Willamette was a general late season until the 9th? I was going to hunt it but Saddle Mtn is closer. I live on the border of Trask and Wilson as I live right on the Wilson river in Tillamook. I'm probably going to go out Saturday or Sunday but it's a little bit of a trip and I don't like hunting in monsoons which is why by the end of next summer I'll either be back in Central or Eastern OR, I'll take cold and snowy over humid and monsoons anyday.
Awesome buck! I like the looks of that forest. :thumbsup:
Awesome buck ,congrats! :clapper:
So what's the story Ted? Treestand, spot and stalk, rattled him in????
VERY NICE BLACKTAIL....it looks he has a funny horn on one side..and it looks smaller than the other side..maybe its just the angle of the pic...john
Yessir---what Snag said. We don't get to hunt this late down south of the border.
Way to go...
I like the looks of the Signature bow too, and am going to have to test drive one of those.
Congratulations, great buck Ted!
Nice buck!
Alright Snag , but I will have to tell it in segments, I am up to my eyeballs in Christmas orders !
So as I said , my friend John invited me to hunt on some private down near Oregon City, right above the Clackamas river ( thanks again John).
I drew the Willamette 600 series tag, ( not general tag, this is an extra 600 series good for one deer).
There were two spots on this property set up with ground blinds ( pop up), I have never hunted from one of these , very different shot angle.
The spot I hunted was in very dense woods as you can see but several trails joined in this area.
Does are legal in this unit as well but the people that own the ground have never shot a doe choosing rather to have the does to draw the bucks during the rut, hard for me to pass up a good shot on a doe but rules are rules and I have found it best for future hunting to respect the landowners rules.
The place is a little over an hour from my house and I have to go through some very ugly traffic to get there, I hunted several days without seeing anything but does and fawns, not much rut activity even in the first of November ( odd year).
At one stretch through the gorge I started seeing dead deer on the side of the road about second week of Nov. ( note that spot for next year).
My buddy John told me "when the shot comes , remember that you have a tendency to shoot high from a ground blind" , he was correct as I found out.
Well to not drag this out , I went in that morning to check the trail camera pics and no bucks came by that night, not looking good!
John dropped me off that afternoon to sit in the blind , a little drippy that afternoon, I like this as it covers some noise, as long as the wind stays down a good day for deer to be cruising.
As we approached the area my blind was in we noticed a new scrape not far from the blind , boy that got me excited.
Pretty slow that afternoon, a few does passed by but didnt stay around for long , still no sign of a buck. I had 5 does in front of the blind , boy did I shoot a bunch of shots in my mind as the does turned different angles offering just about every shot a guy could ask for, suddenly all five does perked up , looking to my right and behind me off in the woods, I knew something was on its way in, I was pretty sure by the way the deer were acting that it was a buck.
Sure enough, I could see legs crossing the small slit in the window to my right and the buck appeared , it was the crooked antler buck I had said that I hope I got a shot at as I love the twisted narly looking blacktail antlers you see so often.
He was focused on one of the does as he chased her back and forth ,stopping from time to time to pose , hoping to entice her to stop running around, nows my chance, I drew back and let my arrow fly only to see it pass harmlessly about an inch over his back , right in line with his chest.
I couldnt believe that I had missed, over his back just like John had warned me, then the shakes set in , adrenaline at its best.
I managed another arrow out of my quiver as quickly and quietly as I could and sat in disbelief that after all that I had missed!
As I sat the listening to the rain dripping off the trees and onto the top of the ground blind I noticed movement to my left, thats right , a couple of does were headed back this way , and can you believe it , so was the buck, he was so focused on the doe he didnt care about anything else, the problem was however the doe would not stop going around and around the four big trees in front of me as the others just kept watching and snacking on bits here and there.
I didnt think I would ever get another shot as he trailed her out of sight, then suddenly she turned back toward me , only this time closer , I knew this would bring the buck closer as well, she paused , he paused to match and my arrow was off, this time I didnt miss and the Treeshark did its job. Funny I wasnt shaking quite as bad this time , but it was still there.
Heres a good pic of the bear in September, no long story this time , 6 yard shot from a low treestand over bait with the same bow , wood arrow and the same broadhead, bear went 31 yards
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x295/photos4work/tedbear2012.jpg)
I know the feeling well Ted. Two days before I killed my buck...from the ground...I missed a nice 4pt from the treestand behind my house. Shot over his back at 15 yds! :saywhat:
Nice shooting!
It's like you say Ted, "guaranteed to shoot exactly where you point it." :) Nice work. That's a good looking deer.
Blacktail is nice but lets not overlooh that awesome bear!!!! Way to go Ted!!!
:thumbsup: Nice looking deer, and bear, congrats! :thumbsup:
Nice !!!
Congratulations on both animals. Those blacktails are beautiful.
Good job Ted!
Nice Buck & Bear
Carl
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Thanks again all , yes, it was a fun season , nice to actually get out and hunt a bunch again.
Thanks to all the good friends that I shared the campfires with .
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way to go ted :thumbsup: