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[No_Regerts]

Shot a dandy of a blacktail. Weird rack. 4x2 main beams, 2 brow tines on one side and 1 brow tine on the other. I got him out whole and he weighed in at 230lbs. Hanging weight was almost 140lbs.

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[Caveman Jim]

That's a dandy buck brother, congrats!!!

 

[Nosferatu]

No matter how perfect, antlers aren't edible.

Nicely done!

 

[kmk1012]

Nice buck there! I only killed an opossum today that was fighting my dog. Was dark and had the 9mm/flashlight combo aimed but didn't want to alarm the neighbors so sent the kid to get the Ruger MKIV with suppressor to be stealthy. No pics though, wasn't as nice as yours! Congrats!

 

[No_Regerts]

I had my 3 y/o with me, so I didn't want to use a rifle. Ended up using my bow. Archery, during modern firearm season, on public land, wearing orange, w/ a 3 y/o chatterbox. It had to be fate.

 

[P7M13]

The buck was coming over to ask you to quiet your little one.

 

[Tlock]

Shot a dandy of a blacktail. Weird rack. 4x2 main beams, 2 brow tines on one side and 1 brow tine on the other. I got him out whole and he weighed in at 230lbs. Hanging weight was almost 140lbs.

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Cool buck! I've been passing little bucks everyday.

 

[orygun]

Nice buck, @No_Regerts ! Around our place we have had a bunch of unbalanced racks ever since we had "Elliot" in the area. (big antler on one side, spike on the other.)
I shot a 2x4 two years ago.

 

[Tlock]

Nice buck, @No_Regerts ! Around our place we have had a bunch of unbalanced racks ever since we had "Elliot" in the area. (big antler on one side, spike on the other.)
I shot a 2x4 two years ago.

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I would have killed Elliot just for the cool factor

 

[orygun]

I would have killed Elliot just for the cool factor

Me, too. Never got the chance. He was only on my cameras for a couple of years, but his kids are easy to spot.

 

[Certaindeaf]

.I got him out whole and he weighed in at 230lbs..

9mm Lunger weight!

 

[Member 24198]

How did you haul him out?

 

[osprey]

Congrats! I took an old warrior 3x4 blacktail out of the gene pool last weekend. He had a broken tine and horn wounds in several places from fighting. He was thick horned but his genes destined him to crab claw forks. I am hoping the young deep forked 3 point I left behind breeds a bunch of does.

 

[Xaevian]

Shot a dandy of a blacktail. Weird rack. 4x2 main beams, 2 brow tines on one side and 1 brow tine on the other. I got him out whole and he weighed in at 230lbs. Hanging weight was almost 140lbs.

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Nice size on that guy.

 

[No_Regerts]

How did you haul him out?

He crashed down through the tree line and died on a road. I just backed right up to him and wrangled him in. I wasn't very confident of being able to manage my kid while dealing with the deer, so I took him home to my wife and I gutted the deer at home after I weighed him on a hoist.

 

[Member 24198]

He crashed down through the tree line and died on a road. I just backed right up to him and wrangled him in. I wasn't very confident of being able to manage my kid while dealing with the deer, so I took him home to my wife and I gutted the deer at home after I weighed him on a hoist.

200# is bigger than me, and I'm hoping to get my first deer, so I was wondering what you did. I'm thinking I'll probably have to quarter him out if I get one.

 

[No_Regerts]

200# is bigger than me, and I'm hoping to get my first deer, so I was wondering what you did. I'm thinking I'll probably have to quarter him out if I get one.

It depends on how far you have to go to get to a vehicle. When I lived in eastern WA, I had to hike a few miles before getting to where I would hunt. My partner and I always had pack frames and would split the load on a quartered up deer. I would only bone it out if I was alone because I was trying to keep it clean.

If close to your vehicle, you may be able to dump the guts and wrangle it in. Consider that a deer sans guts is probably 3/4 live weight. So a 200lb deer is still 150lbs. You might consider removing the tenderloins and backstraps and the cutting the deer in half behind the last rib. Put a bag of ice in the chest cavity and the in the gap between a split pelvis. The joints retain heat and will cause spoiled meat if you don't cool it down.

 

[luciausarmy]

beauty of a buck!

 

[dhunti]

Sick buck, buddy! Nice haul!

 

[Stomper]

200# is bigger than me, and I'm hoping to get my first deer, so I was wondering what you did. I'm thinking I'll probably have to quarter him out if I get one.

You poor little fella..... stuck with them tiny little electrical engineer's wrists.