Nov. 2009: Oregon Columbia Blacktails!!!

[Steve H.]

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.]

Sorry, I ALWAYS fall asleep after Thanksgiving dinner!

[Steve H.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

And there you have it until the next one!

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

[coaster500]

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.]

Hey Jerry AKA "Weasel"....

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

[IndianaBowman]

Steve, thanks for sharing and great looking Beanie!

[Wannabe1]

   

[Chris Surtees]

Very nice      

[Big Ed]

Thank you for sharing!!

[SpankyNeal]

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

Ken

[steadman]

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

[tradtusker]

Awesome! you'v been busy this year

[Michael Arnette]

Nice bucks Steve, great pictures too!

[wingnut]

Steve that is a dandy.  Congrats!!

Mike

[Owlgrowler]

NICE!

[mmgrode]

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

MG