Largest bodied black tail you’ve seen?

[Lou (Louis)]

I've never seen and ugly blacktail. My most favorite of all 4 legged things to hunt.

Mine, also.

 

[JasonWi]

I’ve seen him 1x in daylight and he was next to a 4-4.5 yo 4pt and he dwarfed him!

This is the buck my ML primer failed to ignite on

 

[Just_hunt’n]

NW Oregon

 

[Eastfork]

Thats also my back yard I've been hunting up there a long time, used to see some really huge bodied bucks up there. Will be interesting to see how things are now after the fires we had in there a couple years ago.

This is from up there from 4 years ago, one of the bigger bucks I've seen no idea on weight but he was a brute.

awesome buck!!!!

 

[LoganWolfe]

There are some nice bucks in here. I hunt Kodiak also, this is the largest bodied deer I've killed here in six seasons. This was early October before he started chasing does. He was certainly on the heftier side from the others I've killed. I think he had the Diabi-tus.

 

[Rogue Bay]

There are some nice bucks in here. I hunt Kodiak also, this is the largest bodied deer I've killed here in six seasons. This was early October before he started chasing does. He was certainly on the heftier side from the others I've killed. I think he had the Diabi-tus.View attachment 555298

That buck is super thick. Reminds me of a seal with antlers. Great buck!

 

[AkRyan]

There are some nice bucks in here. I hunt Kodiak also, this is the largest bodied deer I've killed here in six seasons. This was early October before he started chasing does. He was certainly on the heftier side from the others I've killed. I think he had the Diabi-tus.View attachment 555298

Very nice buck!

 

[StupidLightweight]

I grew up in western Washington, where the biggest of bucks might reach 200 pounds. My grandfather, born in Cathlamet in 1911, killed a number of monster bucks back in the '20s and '30s. This was a different time, of course, when old growth timber gave way to colossal clearcuts, causing an explosion in blacktail deer numbers and size.
According to him, this was the largest buck he ever killed, and he said it weighed over 300 pounds. I believe they gutted it afield and then hauled the carcass back to town by logging train. There's no way to prove him right or wrong, but it's certainly a big buck for western Washington. I still have the antlers and the .250-3000 Savage 99, too, which are some of my most prized possessions.

 

[Wmcknight]

I have seen some monsters shot east of I-5 in southern Oregon. The problem is you run into some cross breeds w mule deer… they have black tails and black tailed racks just not totally a true black tail

 

[Steve300xcw]

I have seen some monsters shot east of I-5 in southern Oregon. The problem is you run into some cross breeds w mule deer… they have black tails and black tailed racks just not totally a true black tail

I never saw that as a problem

 

[Thegman]

I've shot far more Sitka Blacktails, but the largest Blacktail I've ever seen was actually one from the SF Bay Area in the 90s.

Usually they're pretty small there, but this guy was a toad. I don't know his live weight, but I took 100 lbs of meat off of him. That said, I didn't leave a scrap on him as meat was a lot harder to come by than it is these days. With that amount of meat, I'd guess he was over 200 lbs live weight (?)

 

[Pharmseller]

This guy showed up this weekend.

I estimate 440 pounds on the hoof.





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[Pharmseller]

This guy goes 185, I asked him.

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[Michigander]

This fella was obese. I couldn't stop laughing when I glassed him up. This was mid October on Kodiak. All the bucks with chryptochidism were abnormally fat because they don't participate in rut.

 

[DawnPatrol]

Look at this porker from southern Vancouver island this weekend. Not necessarily the biggest I’ve ever seen, but still.

 

[AK Troutbum]

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This fella was obese. I couldn't stop laughing when I glassed him up. This was mid October on Kodiak. All the bucks with chryptochidism were abnormally fat because they don't participate in rut.View attachment 762922

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[AK Troutbum]

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This guy showed up this weekend.

I estimate 440 pounds on the hoof.





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440 lbs. really??


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[Pharmseller]

440 lbs. really??


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Not even close.

Like most of the estimates on this thread.





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