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3 Point Blacktail. We've had some rain and a cold snap so I'm sure he "just wasn't thinkin." He's in a better place now (the cooler).

USO 3.2-17 SN-3.

Mark Gordon's Short Action Customs .308:
Remington 700 stainless action and bolt. Fully trued.
8/40 screw upgrade to action
Tactical bolt knob conversion
American Precision Arms recoil lug, pinned to action
Badger Ordnance steel 20 MOA base, upgraded for 8/40 screws
Side bolt release, blind hole
Trigger tuned to 2 ¼ lbs
Bartlein M40 1-11.27 5R stainless barrel
Chambered with Short Action Customs 308 Match reamer
Barrel cut to 18.5in, threaded 5/8 x 24
TBAC 30-P

Coyote Tan Manners MCS-T5 stock
90% carbon fiber
Mini Chassis fully bedded
XLR cheek piece with threaded inserts (installed by Mark)
Bartlein M24/M40 barrel inlet
(4) flush cups, front left right, rear left right
Atlas v.7.0; Accu-shot Atlas BT17 rail
 
#4
Re: Short Action Customs

He's a Blacktail, you get what you get unless you personally own tons of land and have them eating apples in your back 40.

Bastards are the genius's of the deer world.

Nice buck, nice rifle.
 
#5
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Pretty much. The Blacktail buck (especially Oregon coastal) are incredibly difficult to hunt by comparison to, for instance, our eastern oregon muledeer or in states with large open areas, corn and alfalfa fields, etc. In my area, one would not pass on even just a forked horn because that will be the last buck you see that year.
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#9
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Nice rifle and congrats on the deer. I dont know a lot about blacktails but I have heard that killing one is no easy task.

What makes you call that one a "3 point"? Just curious because if that was killed around here it would be called a 5 point (unless he has brow tines that I cant see, which would make him a 7 point in our area).
 
#10
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Congrats on the buck! I am glad to hear somebody has filled a tag. I haven't had a chance yet to get out in the woods but I will do my best to get out before the season closes Friday.

What is the story on the shot? Close like most hunts here or did you take a poke at him? And are they just now getting "stupid"? Thanks in advance for my pre-hunt intel.

Congrats again on the buck! And that is a very nice stick also!

Enjoy those back straps and tender loins,
Josh
 
#11
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wfjames22</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nice rifle and congrats on the deer. I dont know a lot about blacktails but I have heard that killing one is no easy task.

What makes you call that one a "3 point"? Just curious because if that was killed around here it would be called a 5 point (unless he has brow tines that I cant see, which would make him a 7 point in our area). </div></div>

Around here we only count one side of the antlers (usually the side with more points). My Uncle always called this style of counting Western style but i am sure that there are many other names for it. As to why we don't count all the points, I just don't know. I grew up counting antler points like that and I probably always will.
 
#12
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Hey Thanks!

For some reason, those of us on the left coast usually refer to a deer or elk based on the number of points on just one side or the other, as opposed to what I hear about from the rest of the country where all the points are added up. This guy had three one side and two on the other. A 3 by 2 would be what we might otherwise say around here.

I was scheduled to go a bit east later this week for some hunting near Roseburg with a friend and hadn't planned on hunting any further near the coast where I live. Saturday I had done some load development testing nearby and on the way up had spotted a spike who seemed oblivious. Apparently the bucks were beginning their rut. On Sunday, my shooting partners and I were heading up to a different place where we often shoot at 450 yards and 700. (See picture below). I had a feeling there was a better than average possibility of one stepping out so I kept the rifle out of its Pelican case and had a magazine with some 175's near just in case. It isn't one of my hunting guns and in fact I had just received it and am still doing load dev.

As we arrived up top of this particular creek drainage where we have been shooting every Sunday all summer, and were about to turn down the road to the landing where we place steel, this buck had apparently been grazing in the clearcut, heard our trucks, and was making a break for it across the road and up the hill towards safety. Frankly, it was about the last place I expected to see him given how often we shoot there.

I spotted the deer and immediately stopped, went around the truck and grabbed the rifle, put in the loaded magazine, and ran down the road approximately 75 yards where it had crossed. As I looked up the hillside, there he stood, about 50 yards or less. Out of breath (I'm really out of shape!) I lowered toward the ground and took the shot kneeling. He couldn't have been more cooperative had he just jumped in the back of my pickup.

A few minutes later my friends arrived. While I gutted and then dragged the deer to the road, they went and set up the steel at 450 yards and 700. We spent the next 90 minutes or so shooting steel (not one, but two of those new SH Group Buy head and chest targets from OSUshooter that are freakin awesome I might add).

Its not often that I've been able to combine a long distance steel practice trip and successful hunting adventure in one trip. All in all an excellent day!

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#15
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I would call him a forkie. Or 2 point. First off he's a Blacktail, so he's a Western deer anyway.

Even if he had eye guards I wouldn't count them. Because mule deer and blacktails don't really do eyeguards all that well anyway. We usually don't count them. I dont' anyway.

A 4x4 30 inch 190 B&C mule deer even if he had 2 or 3 inch eye guards would still be to me a 30 inch 4 point, and not a 10 point which is how the easterners would count him.

What is the worst is Europe. In Germany my 3x3 with 9 total points (5x4 Roe buck nontypical) is considered to be an uneven 10 pointer. With emphasis on the uneven.

I count every point on a whitetail big enough to measure and every point but eye guards on a mule deer.

I think in some places in Arizona coues deer are counted the same as Western mule deer. As in the eye guards don't count.
 
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