2025 Blacktail Bucks

[welkin]

Hahaha I agree, i've always thought this, almost like a subspecies. Seems like a whole nother world from the literal temperate rainforest jungle of the PNW.

Nothing taking away from them, they and the country they roam are awesome in their own right, and they get big. Just very different from a lot Oregon, and all of Washington, BC and Alaska (of course 2/3rds of BC and up through Alaska are Sitka's).

They're definitely awesome in their own right, but just look so different from the one's we have farther north, and not just because they tend to be larger.

 

[sshhh]

They're definitely awesome in their own right, but just look so different from the one's we have farther north, and not just because they tend to be larger.

Yep, more Mulie like. So much open country too. They seem to have longer tine length overall larger racks but with less mass, usually more spindly it seems. Lighter coloured racks. Where as rainforest Blacktail tend to be more compact and knarly in the rack, heavier, red/orange tinged or just very dark antlers. More pronounced white muzzle and distinct face/colour.

 

[Taudisio]

On the east side…definitely bench-leg.

A stud regardless!

 

[Chedster]

Rattled in and shot this guy at 30 yards from a treestand. Coastal buck

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[sshhh]

Rattled in and shot this guy at 30 yards from a treestand. Coastal buck

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Wow what a dark heavy rack, good goin'

 

[Africajunky96]

Opening morning of rifle season in Northern California. Blew two shot opportunities, then finally tracked him down and made it happen. Pretty pumped!

Pretty buck man, on my short list to hunt one day.

 

[landis07]

Guess better late then never
2025 Washington blacktail , rattled him in

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[rdllrhd]

Here's my B-Zone buck I finally tracked down on the last day. Glassed him up through the fog at over 600 yards--cut the distance in half and put him down with one shot from my 6.5prc.

 

[Steve300xcw]

I thought last day of the season bucks were supposed to be forkedhorns?

 

[Dylanbooth74]

sw wa rifle. never got out of his bed.

 

[mcseal2]

I didn't get great pics of my buck on Kodiak. It was raining hard and the buck broke his skull plate tumbling down a steep slope. I was more worried about getting him to the beach before dark at the time, but we got it done. I took a pick of the antlers in my pack on the beach.