A little November Magic! (BT)

[bruin]

So I haven't been doing much hunting for myself this year. I had a long guiding season and am embarrassed to say that I have been feeling burnt out on hunting. I figured I would sit out October mostly and wait for November. So yesterday I figured it was time to give it a run on the local mountain for a blacktail. I got up about 6:00, sat on the couch and watched the news. It was a warm morning with lots of wind and I was pretty damn sure I wasn't going to see anything which is par for the coarse for me and blacktail. But, the fiance told me to get my ass out the door so I wandered up to an area I had always liked and seen good sign in. I watched for 45 minutes from a vantage point, saw nothing so cruised around the timberline. It started to warm up and I was totally disgusted so I headed straight back up through the logging. I got to a ridge and started seeing beds and trails and wouldn't you know it, I looked up to see a good buck with his head down sneaking out! He had been bedded in the middle of the slash watching me the whole time! I rubbed my eyes and took off for the top of the ravine he headed into. Sure enough he popped out and I was so excited I rushed the shot and made a very poor one. I watched him disappear into the trees and backed out for about 4 hours. I tracked hime for about 300 yards with good blood (bedded twice) and then jumped him in a thicket. No way was I going to be able to sneak up on him. So I left him until this morning, he went another 100 yards and died in his bed. Certainly not the quick, clean kill I was looking for. Lesson learned.
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[darrin6109]

very nice! great job!

[Jelvis]

That is a buck and a half, and with a bow, unreal hunter. The face on that buck is brutish .. wide rack whoa
Jel .. You know what yer doin for sure ... excellent hunting .. One tuff Blacktail buck right there folks.

[Shooter]

cool looking rack. Good job not pushing him to another time zone. It can be tempting.

[leadpillproductions]

Nice buck. body looks big

[BUCKJR]

NICE WORK! great looking blacktail, wish i had some luck working for me like that right about now!

[urbanhermit]

Boy thats a nice looking buck!! gotta love those blacktails!

[Gilmore]

Great buck!! I love the bladed tines, congrats!

[Farmer]

Nice buck Mike. A nice dark heavy blacktail.

[Kody94]

Congrats! That's a great looking buck. Appreciate the honest report too!

Cheers!

[Sooke Hunter]

Wow, congratulations!!! Awsome character buck!!

[fourbyfour]

very nice BT good job

[Archer]

What an awesome buck!!!! Huge congrats!! Trust me, I know how you feel about the rushed shot; I'll bet you hardly slept...... Glad you found that brute!

[Blainer]

Fantastic buck.
Lot's of character.

[mark]

Thats one of the coolest blacktails Ive seen in a while, shy of that one with the monster bases posted recently!
And with a bow too, congrads!
I havent seen a mulie that good for a while now????

[Rattler]

Great buck Bruin! Congrats on taking a fine buck and with your bow even...

[Sitkaspruce]

Great looking BT!!!

Love the bladed tines and character of him.

So how was the meat??? There has been lots of talk on here about leaving an animal over night, maybe you can shed some light on it with your deer??

Cheers

SS

[luckynuts]

Nice Buck there Bruin. Good job on the stalk and an even better job on the decision to leave him be. Very tough to wait em out over night, probably the reason you recovered him. I lost my only deer to not waiting him out. I hit him high in the shoulder with about 6" of shaft sticking out. I rushed it jumped him a few times and never did recover him. I like how his back tines are bladed, very cool.

W.

[Kitimat Killer]

nice buck bruin way to go glad you kept with it and found the buck some ppl would of giving up go on you bud. what a wicked looking buck

kk

[nano]

Nice BT buck, congrats!

[Ovis17]

Another stud blacktail down. Definately been some bruisers killed again this year. Congrats on a heck of a deer, with the bow no less.

[Caveman]

Nicely done!

[proguide66]

thats a great deer!!!..big chunk of forehead between those eyes.hard to tell if he was goin forward er backward!!!...liver shot?
congrats!!

[Deer Sausage]

thats a beuatiful deer..nice and big and big high-character antlers. i also found your candor on the report wonderfully refreshing. nice buck, congrats.

[bruin]

Thanks guys. Better to be lucky than good eh?! It was a huge relief to find him today. The meat didn't smell great though it cooled overnight. I am going to try and eat some tomorrow but it did have a sour smell. Unfortunately it may be dog feed if we can't eat it. Yes, I think it caught a piece of the liver, just behind the diaphram and a bit low. I did it gutless.
He was definitely thick in the neck but didn't have much of a rut stink. No does but lots of rubs in the area he was living and the alder bark was caked in his bases.

[The Hermit]

Bummer about the meat, hope it isn't too rank. Great deer!

[ThinAir]

What a buck. Great job, it's always a bit nerve racking when you feel you didn't make a good shot. I'm glad you found him!

[bruin]

I never noticed but I have quite a distinct bum chin when the light hits it just right.

[born2hunt]

wow great lookin buck

[CanuckShooter]

Nice buck!! I like the character in his rack....:-D

[rollingrock]

That's a nice buck! Buck fever hits me harder while I'm bow hunting!

[Brambles]

Smoker Blacktail there Bruin, for a guy that wasn't too excited to hunt BT this year you did real well, and with a bow too. Gonna mount that one? Looks like a prime mounter to me.

Congrats

[stanway]

Nice blacktail! Congrats! That boy has mass and character. Thanks for sharing the pictures.



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[Jager-mister?]

Thats a great Blacktail for a guy who didn't want to go out :) Congrats and good job.

[Bighorn hunter]

Great buck Bruin!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats
BH

[Jetboater]

really cool buck Mike....is it getting mounted?

[alecvg]

Gorgeous Buck! Wow! And with a bow, thats the buck of a lifetime! Bummer that it wasn't a good shot, but thats hunting eh?

[riflebuilder]

That's a geat looking Blacktaill congrats

[1/2 slam]

Very nice buck...Congratulations!

[rifleman]

holy crap, what a cranker of a buck. huge body also. way to go

[~T-BONE~]

What a stud!! Way to go....

[orangestepside]

He is a beauty mike, I heard about this guy glad to see some pictures good on ya

[cainer]

Sweet BT Bruin! He's sportin a giant neck to go with that rack...must be ruttin time!

[kennyj]

Thats a big old bruiser! Congratulations!
kenny