#1015281 - 10/10/19 11:08 AM
2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 27838
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Since didn't enter or draw a tag in the multi-season lottery, here's a new post for a new season!
Western Washington blacktail starts on Saturday morning...a few days in the woods is about exactly what I need right now.
Eyeballed a few decent bucks on our game cam array...including one chunky 3x4 that has a habit of walking around in daylight.
Campfires, camp food, camp drinks, and camp stories...starts tomorrow afternoon!
Fish on...
Todd
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#1015283 - 10/10/19 11:10 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Three Time Spawner
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Sounds fun. Good luck Todd.
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#1015310 - 10/10/19 12:26 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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Shoot straight and take something to camp for the headaches sure to come. Enjoy.
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#1015613 - 10/13/19 04:33 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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A couple of tags were filled today at our camp.
Fish on...
Todd
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#1015641 - 10/14/19 08:26 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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My Area code makes me cooler than you
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#1015648 - 10/14/19 09:36 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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I think SkyGuy may have a pic or two of his first ever big game harvest ;-)
Fish on...
Todd
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#1015651 - 10/14/19 10:09 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Shooting Instructor for hire
Registered: 10/26/10
Posts: 7204
Loc: Snohomish, WA
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It was a great start to our season. Camp is a well oiled machine this year and it almost looks like we know what we are doing. Boat limits of jumbo crab the night before opening day was just an awful way to kick start our festivities. Crab, heart and backstrap. Just terrible. Our boy Ryley is starting to develop the eye of the tiger. ![thumbs thumbs](/forum/images/graemlins/default_dark/thumbsup.gif)
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#1015671 - 10/14/19 01:00 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Yeah, dinner tomorrow will be tenderloins, heart, Dungeness crab, and foraged chanterelles, lobster mushrooms, and Zeller's boletes.
I love being in the PNW in the fall...so much good food to shoot, catch, gather, or grow in my garden.
Fish on...
Todd
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#1015841 - 10/16/19 10:29 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Shooting Instructor for hire
Registered: 10/26/10
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Loc: Snohomish, WA
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Just got done cutting and wrapping Ryley's BT. He left with a cooler full of prime groceries and a big ol' chit eating grin on his face. Of course, I had to sample some backstrap before he was able to make his escape.
Can't wait to get back out there this weekend.
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#1016154 - 10/22/19 12:53 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 27838
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Nick shot a buck on Sunday morning that was every bit as big as the mondo buck I shot a couple of years ago...he got to bask in the glory of it for about four hours until I shot one that looks like it's half Cape Buffalo ![wink wink](/forum/images/graemlins/default_dark/wink.gif) It took a few years but apparently we have learned thing or two about finding some gigantic mature bucks on Whidbey Island. I caped out the one I shot on Sunday and he'll be going to the taxidermy man for full shoulder mount. Fish on... Todd
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#1016157 - 10/22/19 01:20 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 1814
Loc: Wenatchee, WA
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Way to slaughter the swamp rats!
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#1016166 - 10/22/19 02:59 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 27838
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Here's the little island blacktail from Sunday... That's the landowner in the pic with me...he has never wanted to be in a pic of any of our deer, but insisted on getting some pics with this one ![wink wink](/forum/images/graemlins/default_dark/wink.gif) They don't grow the biggest racks on the islands, even the big deer, but this guy's is pretty impressive nonetheless... And here he is, ready for the taxidermy man... Fish on... Todd
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#1016195 - 10/22/19 11:13 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Shooting Instructor for hire
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Loc: Snohomish, WA
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There are two "types" of BT's on the island. Kind of like labs...American field labs and British standard labs. One type is a long bodied, taller but thinner deer and the other, a shorter, heavier body. The long body types tend to be big forked 2x2's or 2x3's and the short body types tend to be squat 3x3's and 4x4's. Todd's is the latter. He wasn't long bodied, but holy cow was he squat and fat. Really, really, fat. Big ol' sway belly looked like he was preggars with triplets.
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#1016196 - 10/23/19 07:40 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/21/07
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Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
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That rack on Todd's looks reminiscent of a Sitka BT, actually, but heavier.
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#1016197 - 10/23/19 09:30 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Spawner
Registered: 12/30/08
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#1016203 - 10/23/19 11:06 AM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Returning Adult
Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 307
Loc: Adna
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Wow ! I loved the photos.
Nice work guys. Just a classic case of puttin' in the time and then reapin' the rewards. Congrats, you guys earned it.
M
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#1016208 - 10/23/19 01:46 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 27838
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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Thanks, guys.
Yes, Bart, and it has been a labor of love getting to really know the area we hunt.
Besides being a beast of a buck, after as silent of a stalk that I could manage after hearing a branch break not far from me in the woods, he and I ended up face to face at about 25 yards with me only able to see half his head and none of his body, with him looking right at me.
All I could see is one eyeball, half a muzzle, and that he had horns.
The kill shot resulted from a long throw from a shotgun into a very tight opening in the impenetrable brush at a buck at full gallop, and of the 9 BBs that left the barrel of my gun, 4 of them ended up in his chest.
Not a shot I'd bet much money on making, but I'm sure glad it was made.
Fish on...
Todd
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#1016210 - 10/23/19 01:48 PM
Re: 2019 Blacktail Season
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Dick Nipples
Registered: 03/08/99
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Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
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That rack on Todd's looks reminiscent of a Sitka BT, actually, but heavier. I have shot two oversized bucks on this Island, and both had racks like this...only this one was a bit bigger and thicker than the last one! Fish on... Todd
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