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American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

One of the most hunted deer species in the world, Whitetails, plus Blacktails and Mulies.

Please share with us your photographs.

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18/07/10 05:25 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

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19/07/10 05:16 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

A nice 5x6 taken in Western South Dakota a couple of years ago.

Sorry, don't have any field pics. Also, not sure how to make the pics smaller so they don't take up all that space.

Also, bad timing by me to close my eyes. Makes me look like I was on something.

After shooting this one and his female companion, I tagged him and drug him to some weeds so nobody would find him. Saw some people sneaking out when I was on my way in. Then I went back to the ranchers house and called for backup, which is the other guy in the pic. Super nice guy. Anyways, we got to the deer at about 10 pm, and then we couldn't find him in the dark. I was starting to get worried that somebody had taken him, when we finally stumbled upon him. Guess I had hidden him too well.

I spotted this deer from a long ways off and spent the better part of 2 hrs working my way up to finally getting the shot. Would crawl up to a rim and peek over it to make sure of were he was, crawl back and work my way closer, then do it again. There were 4 other smaller bucks and about 3 does with him. Had over 20 cactus needles in my left elbow by the time I got the shot, but it was worth it. Unofficially scored 164 B&C, dressed about 225lbs. 19 1/8" Inside spread.

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19/07/10 06:53 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Well done. Thanks for posting it up.

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19/07/10 11:44 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Some great looking deer those guys are showing up thread. Hope I can get one like them some day.

This past season we took a very special deer. My Dad is 82 years old. He drove out from Oregon to Montana and picked up a Montana B whitetail doe tag.

Dad told me after he took this deer, that because for the past 20 years he had to take care of Mom who was in poor health, he hasn't been able to go deer hunting. This man introduced me to hunting 50 years ago and to get him back in the hunting fields after so many years makes this one special deer!!!

Images added to NE

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20/07/10 12:46 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Little 3 point Whitetail. As you can see, I've already started peeling his clothes off. 7x57BRNO - 140gr. Combined Tech @ 2,940fps - 3-9X M3200 scope set at 4X - range 35 yards - 1st blood for the rifle. Bullet ended up underneath hide off shoulder. Lung shot behind elbow not possible - his doe covered that spot with her butt. Had to shoulder shoot him. Terrific bullet performance in spite of the bone it went through at high velocity.

Baby (deer family) moose yearling, ie: 5 months old - 9.3x57, 270gr. Speer @ 2,300fps MV factory iron sights - range 200 yeads slightly uphill. Smashed on-side 2" diameter leg bone, penetrated both lungs. Good performance in spite of bone hit - took out 2 1/2" of the bone, blasting it into shards. One chunk penetrated one lung as well.

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20/07/10 02:36 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

I got a few to add..here goes:

Desert mule deer from southwest New Mexico, using an original deluxe Winchester 1886 in .33 WCF:

Minnesota white tail taken with an original deluxe Winchester 1895 in .30-'03:

Same MN deer on the meat pole outside my buddy's shack (just because this looks really cool to a guy from Texas):

And my two oldest boys with the first deer they killed:

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24/07/10 08:09 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

taw1126, nice deer there. Where in Mn. did you hunt? I lived there for about 12yrs. They sure do grow some big ones up there.

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24/07/10 10:52 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Well-done!

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25/07/10 11:37 AM

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TAP-
I flew into Bemidji and we hunted about 30 miles east/northeast of there. If everything goes to plan I'll be up there again this November.

What's hard to see in this picture is the ridiculous palmation on the deer that's just a cape & horns on the meat pole. Almost as wide as my hand. My deer was okay rack-wise, not really any better than we get pretty routinely in Texas, but he was much, much heavier than what I'm used to shooting (about 210 pounds field dressed).

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25/07/10 05:38 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

taw1126,
Good luck on the hunt this year. I spent quite a little bit of time running around Walker and Park Rapids, just a piece south of Bemidji. Really liked the area. I do love to hunt them backwoods deer.

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25/07/10 07:53 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Quote:

I got a few to add..here goes:

Desert mule deer from southwest New Mexico, using an original deluxe Winchester 1886 in .33 WCF:

Taw,

Wow, I like the muley!

Nice whitetail too.

And good to see the young ones getting into it.

***

Daryl,

a meaty subject. Good eating.

***

DD

Your Dad harvested a tender looking doe.

Thanks to everyone for posting.

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02/08/10 10:34 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

And let's not forget the little guys:

Spike Whitetail: 2009:

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03/08/10 01:24 AM

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My wife's first deer taken on a very cold November morning a couple years ago.

Curl

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03/08/10 01:52 AM

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Wonderful to see the family involved as well.

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03/08/10 02:46 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

My Muley:

more pics and the story of the hunt here:

http://ultimatesportsmen.com/stories3/ultmuley.htm

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20/08/10 11:49 PM

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A few of mine:

First buck:

Only deer I have taken in Vermont:

A NY buck

Kind of a cool pic of two does running past my game camera

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20/08/10 11:59 PM

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More game cam photos, I pretty much only see does here.

Summer coat color

Little spike buck in velvet, date is wrong on the camera, this was from about a month ago.

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25/08/10 07:19 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

My best buck, taken a few years back, on a farm I've hunted for 30+ years.

Taken with a 12 ga. slug gun, at 140 yds.

maddog

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25/08/10 10:11 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Took this one with a .375 H&H w/ 235 Speer at 110 yards; note the exit wound and Starbucks coffee

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25/08/10 10:55 PM

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Great work guys and gals,

Taw, any chance of a photo fo that 1886, love those old guns and in 33WCF woohee!

MOG

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29/08/10 04:26 AM

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In the side yard

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29/08/10 06:18 AM

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Charlie, an old blacktail gent from the deep dark mossy woods.

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29/08/10 09:41 AM

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That's an awesome buck!

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29/08/10 10:42 AM

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A picture of more blacktail - for the naturalists out there.

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31/08/10 04:26 AM

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Blacktail.

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30/10/10 06:15 AM

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Quote:

Some great looking deer those guys are showing up thread. Hope I can get one like them some day.

This past season we took a very special deer. ...Dad told me after he took this deer, that because for the past 20 years he had to take care of Mom who was in poor health, he hasn't been able to go deer hunting. This man introduced me to hunting 50 years ago and to get him back in the hunting fields after so many years makes this one special deer!!!

THAT is cool

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30/10/10 06:24 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

What I do not see here are hunting stories. Would this for example be the place to post deer hunting stories? With deer season a month away and my first double en route, I would love to read about some double gun hunts....

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05/11/10 01:36 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Competition entries for the Save raffle ticket totalled and now closed for this thread.

Ladies and Gentlemen, thanks for joining in.

However please post more photos if you wish.

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23/12/11 03:28 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

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Charlie, an old blacktail gent from the deep dark mossy woods.

Those are some serious chocolate horns as we say here in Texas. Great looking deer, do you have more pics?

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24/12/11 02:47 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

My first Coues deer taken in Arizona October 2007

My second Coues deer November 2008

Coues buck November 2009

October 2011

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24/12/11 03:44 PM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Here's a few for ya!

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21/02/12 12:49 PM

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And in the category for "less orthodox deer hunting firearms":

Whitetail does -- 2 shots, 2 kills -- Orange County, NY 2011:

The last deer I killed this season:

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22/02/12 09:45 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

The Mules on my wall....

Ripp

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22/02/12 03:37 PM

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Oh, but to be young and in shape again.

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22/02/12 07:11 PM

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A successful hunter, great trophies!!!

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23/02/12 01:20 AM

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23/02/12 12:32 PM

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Nice Mules there Ripp. That's a trophy I have yet to score on. It's amazing how expensive they've gotten for non-residents!

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24/02/12 12:05 AM

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Nice Mules there Ripp. That's a trophy I have yet to score on. It's amazing how expensive they've gotten for non-residents!

Thank you---funny, i was thinking the same thing when I was pricing whitetail hunts in Texas..

Ripp

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24/02/12 01:48 AM

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Nice Mules there Ripp. That's a trophy I have yet to score on. It's amazing how expensive they've gotten for non-residents!

Thank you---funny, i was thinking the same thing when I was pricing whitetail hunts in Texas..

Ripp

No doubt. Some are way out of hand. You can actually shoot a Cape Buffalo and Tuslkess Elephant for the price of one Whitetail on some of the Texas ranches. But the really strange thing is those ranches are often booked a couple years in advance.

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05/03/12 01:16 PM

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ruffcountry-
You've got some nice Coues bucks there. I've only bagged one so far, in the northern portion of New Mexico's Gila Wilderness Area. But I would love to get a couple of more before I'm done! It's always fun to explain to non-hunters, or "less aware" hunters, why I spent taxidermy money on "such a small white tail"!

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06/03/12 03:55 AM

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With all these nice trophy's I'm somewhat embarrased to post this little Whitetail 4 pointer. It was the first whitetail buck I've ever seen here, so I shot it.

This one's a nice deery moose @ 57".

This little guy was 675 pounds, hanging in skinned quarters, cut off at the hocks

2004 - 5th day of a 10 day hunt.

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06/03/12 03:40 PM

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It was the first whitetail buck I've ever seen here, so I shot it.

Good to hear Daryl. Keep it muley country.

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07/03/12 01:18 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

That is one heck of a nice moose Daryl..congrats...

Ripp

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07/03/12 02:01 AM

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Sorry Guys my post isn't so much about the deer, but my Dear hunting partner Katherine. Each time this post shows up I have been wanting to post this.

Here are two deer of a number of deer she took here in Montana.

This first one, a whitetail doe she took along the border. The fence line about 100 yards in the back ground is the Canada-US border fence

This one is her favorite. A little forked horn Mulie buck. It was the first hunting story she liked to tell when hunting story telling time came around-" the hip shot deer".

Her other deer hunting stories are "The spike horn", Herrett Head Shot", "Momma and babies" and "the get out of bed deer".

I said this post really wasn't about deer but Dear. You see this post makes me think about my favorite hunting partner, Katherine. My wife of 44 years Katherine died in my arms April 3, 2011. I went deer hunting only one day this year. It just wasn't the same without her.

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07/03/12 04:35 AM

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DD

YOU have my deapest condolences...so sorry to hear of your loss..

Nothing I say can relieve the grief you must feel...but at least you had those times which you can hold dear..there are many who don't..

Take care..

Ripp

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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07/03/12 04:44 AM

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My heartfelt condolences, DD. Such a tragedy in one's life. Pictures and memories, treasure them. We all feel some of your pain.

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07/03/12 04:47 AM

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DD
I would love to read the stories that go with the photos. The headlines for them are grabbers and sounds as if she had a wonderful sense of humor. May God give you comfort, sorry for your loss.

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07/03/12 07:22 AM

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My condolences, but some very nice memories... /Staffan

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07/03/12 02:53 PM

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DD,

Words always seem insignifcant to me at these times but sincere condolences to you .

Ruff

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07/03/12 03:08 PM

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DD,

Very sorry to hear of your loss, my sincere condolences as well.

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08/03/12 04:02 PM

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My condolences DD.

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09/03/12 01:29 AM

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Thanks guys I didn't mean to turn this into a condolence thread.

It will a year next month and then I will remove the veil and move out of the convent and get back to life.

I will write her deer hunting stories because they bring me pleasant memories and it will help preserve those memories.

I will be selling her .243 M-70. She wanted to get a larger caliber for deer as she did not like the way the .243 killed. Anybody need a youth model Winchester NM 70 with a 10 1/2 inch length of pull..

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12/05/12 10:26 AM

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My condolences DD.

My low fence Texas 9 pointer and a piebald (barely) doe that I took on the same hunt:

Find the bullet hole.

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12/12/13 10:54 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

A couple of whitetails form my farm in the Ottowa valley on the Qubec side of the river. 2010 and 2012 if memory serves. Both field dressed well over 210 lbs.

I'm trying to get the pictures down, here goes.

This one is a little smaller from this year, field dressed at 180lbs.

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02/04/14 10:50 PM

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Found this older photo while cleaning up the computer.

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09/12/14 02:37 PM

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Got a nice fat little doe today, not the greatest photo though. Forgot my Canon at home, as an afterthought when I got her loaded up I remembered the camera on my phone. 12" Contender, .45-70 barrel and Hornady LeverEvolution ammo. There is definitely no mistaking a solid hit from the caliber.

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10/12/14 01:38 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Little Mule deer I shot a few years back opening weekend..
Backpacked in a few miles and set up my tent..
ended up shooting this guy about 400 yards from my tent the 2nd morning there..
Luck is a beautiful thing...

Ripp

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10/12/14 03:45 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

Nice!

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24/11/15 10:55 AM

Re: American Deer Thread - Mule, Whitetail, Blacktail

I took this one with my M.98 7x57:

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