Chasin tail

[Spiker]

Oh - we are certainly still working in that direction.
Some things have come together recently that will help us keep up the momentum but - - -
it's still a year or two away.

[gravedigger]

Hey Digger dont tell folks about or barrel fish shoot....is it on the 5th weekend in FEB this year or what...lol

that sounds about right...but just to bump it up a notch how about bow fishing rig,from a tree stand oh lets say 15 - 20 feet up.oh ya now thats fishing.lol

[ElkSlayer]

Hey all , been out the last few days in the wood lot close to home.. and been so close every day did even get a shot with my recurve .. some may know it was a tad low or this would have been a differant post...lol
I just gota vent a bit this ole gray faced blacktail is driving me crazy... so earler I gear up today is the day I just know it....NOT

So i walk out, bang they they are 2 big ole does one has me peged..so make like a tree and she's calm 100 yards out or so ( for got RF..ugg)
So I drop on hands an knees, crawl ,Yes 50 yards still there. I was angling to some other trees so Im still 70 or so out One more Big tree for cover to go and Then Im in range.. They could have seen me Maybe, no way they heard me posable busted by the light brezze.... but they just disapeard..
there one secound then just gone.. area is Flat no way the can sneak away... must have dug in a goffer hole..lol be back after them again latter..because They have this boy friend that should be showin up SOON...

Plan to head out into our PP camp out in my blind all day.. soon as we get all our chores done...lol been a bit busy around here thats why i sneek of to the wood lot...lol she says I can

[Stéphane]

Okay, I'm looking at your deer and you call a blacktailed deer. Here in BC, they're called blacktailed West of Hope and Mule Deer East of it. Really, the Mullies tend to be bigger and not so spooky. How do you see it down there?

The ears of a mule deer are significantly bigger than a white tail. Yours seems to have those big flappers, don't they?

[elkslayer4x5]

Here in Oregon the dividing line is Interstate 5, any deer to the west side is concidered a pure blacktail, and on the east side they're hybrids, a blacktail and mule deer cross. As for the ears, Blacktails have a 7 inch ear, while the Mulies have a much larger ear, more like 9 inches, which as you know is how they got thier name. "Ears like a mule"

[ElkSlayer]

This is a huge can of worms... as once the line gets to calif they still claim Blacktail but in fact its a high bread cross...

This is what i know for the record books we have to take a blacktail west of I 5 there range runs to the pacific crest trail but mixes with mule deer. so to count as a true BT It must come from the west side My side LOL

here in oregon it is black tail from the coast to the PCT then mule deer to the snake river on into Idaho also have pockets of white tails here an there..

[Stéphane]

Who would have thought that it would be politically incorrect to call a mule deer "blacktail" or vise versa. Which one is the minority? And what are their rights? Politics, I tell you. And I thought that was an only a Canadian thing.

Thanks for the info.

SG

[ElkSlayer]

That would have to be the Balcktail... since it only lives on the west coast from use to you ..
Mulies range from use to the mid west....some guys get real touchy about it..lol

[elkslayer4x5]

According the genitics, a blacktail buck bred a whitetail doe and a Mule deer was born.