California late season blacktail

[legends1]

A good friend of mine George Perez and i wanted to put in for the late season blacktail hunt in Monterey County.For California hunters a late season hunt is by draw only.The Monterey hunt is either sex tag.We were suprised to find that we had drawn the Monterey tag.The season for this tag is in Oct.It would be nice to hunt in the cooler weather as our normal deer season opens in July.Morning fog was a nice change in deer camp.
   

The country is mostly steep. Finding a area to hang a stand would be a challenge.We both found a somewhat flat area that had some deer sign.The country is also very brushy so the deer seem to hang tight.
On the first evening i filled my tag with a nice button buck.The thought of deer in the freezer was nice.
   

George had to wait until our last morning 4 days latter to fill his tag on a nice doe.
   

This tag was by no means a give me hunt but we were bleesed to fill our freezer.George is the owner of Rainy Day Bows.So we spent the week talking about bow design and teased over who had the best bow.We shot alot of arrows in camp and had fun trading our bows back and fourth.We both had a great time on this late season tag.Dont know if ill try for it again,but this trip was one im sure i wont soon forget.
The setup i used on this hunt was a Cyclone longbow 51#@31" 64", Surewood fir shaft 580 grns.with a Magnus 2 blade.

[Josh Perdue]

congrats guys

[rastaman]

Way to go guys!      

[ti-guy]

[joe ashton]

way to go.

[SAM E. STEPHENS]

Sweet , that is a hunt I need to do , good shooten guys........
,,Sam,,

[gregg dudley]

Congratulations!

[wildgame]

Congrats!

[snakebit40]

That's awesome! Congrats on a great hunt!    

[trad_bowhunter1965]

       

[RainyDayBows]

Like Mike said we had a great time on this hunt were having some sausage made out of our deer.

George

[Shedrock]

Congrats guys      

[Shot]

well done!!!

[legends1]

Thanks guys for your comments.

[Thumper Dunker]

Way to go guys. Good looking deer.Getting a deer here is doing good.  

[Izzy]

Looks like a great hunt and a couple of beautiful animals. Them blacktails sure are cool looking deer.

[slayer1]

You guys did a great job! Thanks for the story!

[Littlejake]

Nice camp,and nice blacktail...

[bruinman]

Congrats on a great hunt.

[wooddamon1]

Congrats guys!