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Offline abhound

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« on: November 14, 2004, 09:23:07 AM »
My friend's 12 year old son shot this huge blacktail on his first opening weekend.  He measures just over 24" and green scored 149 2/8BC and weighed just over 150lbs field dressed.  I've killed a lot of nice blacktails in my time, but none this big.  

A little jealous... maybe. :wink:

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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2004, 10:04:50 AM »
Gee, I did not know that they came that big!!  Very nice.  I would like to hear his story.  Tell him congrats for me.

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« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2004, 10:40:47 AM »
Go to http://www.blacktailcountry.com/html/fieldphotos.html to see a number of large Blacktails from California.  Great site for Blacktail hunters everywhere.  Lawdog
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2004, 11:46:49 AM »
I actually know some of the people in those photos.  I live smack-dab in the center of mendocino county where allot of those bucks were taken.  The boy shot this buck on a ranch in Covelo.  His dad eventually got a 21" 4x5 with a 9" fifth point, I'll try to dig out the picture. Two of his uncles also took huge bucks.  They grow them big around there.
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2004, 11:57:56 AM »
Nice buck.  Talking to a friend who was validating deer tags in B Zones.  About 60 percent of the deer he checked came off of private ranchs.
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2004, 12:27:16 PM »
Quote from: Siskiyou
Nice buck.  Talking to a friend who was validating deer tags in B Zones.  About 60 percent of the deer he checked came off of private ranchs.


Yea that might be the reason I've never killed one that big.  $1500 for a buck is kind of steep, even one as nice as that.  Being that what public land there is to hunt is way over crowded I don't hunt as much as I once did.  These days I do more target shooting and abalone diving.  Unless I can draw out for another state such as Wyoming, Colorado or Nevada.

Here's the picture of his dad's buck.

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