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Some from this year blacktail deer hunting More IMG_20251101_142002.heic IMG_20251101_203359.heic

Chest did not heal…again. Go see surgeon tomorrow. So I have taken myself off of light duty. And I went for a Wolf hunt in Idaho. Went over Gisborne ridge. Lots of fog down low, finally broke out up high. I saw lots of deer and elk. Whitetail and elk on the way out down low. Mule deer up high. No wolves. There was about 4 inches of snow up top in the shade.

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That's a twin to the last blacktail that I bagged.

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I know many here are hunters based in the PNW and so I figured this section needed a black tailed deer thread as they are the grey ghost of the cascade range. The mature blacktail buck is truly the toughest ungulate to locate and hunt in North America Please feel free to share stories, strategies and photos of the pursuit. I will start off with my own experience and strategies. In my few years of learning mature black tail buck behavior and patterns I have found that these guys like to be up along benches, plateaus and saddles that are difficult to approach, they routinely move between these kind of bedding areas and a series of feeding zones such as 5 to 8 year regrowth of clearcut or select cut stretched over terrain that has relief points and staging areas. If there are springs and marshes nearby the chances are even better that you are on a great spot, they are edge habitat creatures and like irregular pockets of different forest types and feed heavily on general browse in the summer favoring red huckleberry leaves, alder, vine maple and cottonwood. In the fall and winter they shift to hitting lichen, mushrooms, alder, salal and huckleberry tips. The older mature deer become very nocturnal and move to a very heavy lichen diet and hold up in old growth timber, these older deer will tolerate a little more snow to remain in higher areas that predator pressure is lower. The also seem to move less overall and don't run until later in the rut but rather wait for does to get pushed into their core areas as they escape the younger bucks and human created pressure. At 4+ years they essentially build a knowledge of what areas do not get pressured that also have and retain resources late into the year. As far as basic behavior they will use the wind and stand perfectly still for well over 15 minutes watching and listening before entering into a new environment to try and pick out predators and movement. I have had them catch me move just an inch and they will circle the detected disturbance until they can catch a scent before dropping their guard to feed or approach, they will also stay in their bed in the brush until you get almost on top of them if they feel you do not know they are there.. Younger bucks make more mistakes and will lean hard into the rut and take chances if there are hot does nearby. My goals for getting close are to identify remote transitional habitat pockets, locate feeding zones and then key in on old rub routes within 60 yards of primary game trails that take me to knobs, benches and flat top ridges. I then will set cameras up along staging areas and try to plan still hunt routes based on dominant wind and barometric pressure changes around wet nasty weather. I also E-scout often to try and understand how the does are using the area and how the bachelor groups settle in around fall as they break up. I often find higher deer density in areas that have some south east exposure for warmth in winter as well as some wrap around benches to face north east as this is an escape from the wind in winter and some shade and cool in summer. Hope this is helpful to some of you guys out there and feel free to add any tips you have.

Thanks for posting all the articles and that was really a great effort. It was quite interesting to know that some of the reports that I posted were, of value and that the Indians did have a problem with bigfoots that kept bothering them. Your writings are always very detailed and thank-you for participating on this topic. You always do a good job of answering and replying to topics that helps keep the entire forum membership informed.

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But they are dying. I mentioned three right off the top of my head. The BFRO has moved their forum to Facebook specifically. We are not a social media platform like Reddit or Facebook. I personally do not like social media platforms. But it would seem people like me are a minority.

Please see my post in Film/video/audio forum.

Thanks, norseman. I saw that I had done that, but didn't figure out how to delete the extra one.

You had a duplicate so I deleted the one no one had responded too.👍

This fall! His is a hog!

OOOOH, venison steaks

Thanks all for very beautiful sharing. I wish I could hunt, this guy was napping in my backyard awhile ago.

This is my record book buck! It holds the record for my smallest forked horn. My view when I hunt.

Taken by a neighbor. Guess this would be filed as “scouting”. Washington state has such a ridiculously short elk season these guys are safe. There was two bulls with them but didn’t see em here. IMG_4528.mov

Just to continue the prior (as I didn't know how long it would be), there were no mentions of "Sacred Baby Mountain" in newspapers.com. Nor are there any when doing a general web search apart from those tied to websites reporting this specific story. Searching for "Captain Joshua LeFlore" draws a blank in newspapers.com; omitting his supposed rank brings up mostly wedding announcements, obituaries, a sale of land, and a murder case in Atoka, Oklahoma where a Joshua LeFlore pled guilty to manslaughter in 1899. The so-called professor is an author who has a bunch of sensationalist books listed on Amazon, etc., but most of them appear to be out of print. I will say that the Choctaw Lighthorsemen sound like an interesting bunch, breaking up political impasses (by forcing one side out of the assembly hall) in 1897 and enforcing bans on alcohol in their territory (after a sort) in 1902. One of their early leaders was indicted for introducing liquor into the Indian Territory (that's a legal term that is still used in court cases today) in 1914 and arresting some businessmen who circumvented the law to get a railroad run through the reservation in 1920.

I don't have a smartphone; I think it would be harder to use this format on a phone. Does anyone even learn to type anymore? I agree, oldies like us used to like to have discussions at length, for days or more. I mostly blame social media, which has damaged attention spans and increased sources of information. Another reason could be progression of knowledge; people learn answers to personal questions and move on.