I saw the pics of your your son's NM mule deer...hard one to pass up!

Contrasting eastern Washington whitetails with our island blacktails...in one whitetail afternoon, in one area not bigger than 30 acres, we had more deer in our sights than we see in five years of island blacktail hunting.

I'll admit that we generally harvest a good mature blacktail a time or three each season now...but it took us three years to get our first one, and that was three years of many hunting days from dawn til dusk...the learning curve out there was long, and flat, for a long time.

Every mature buck we shoot is a satisfying critter, to say the least.

When I was a kid I did the traditional western Washington blacktail hunt...sit on a clearcut and wait for one to walk out. It worked, but it sure didn't feel much like hunting to me...after taking 20 years off and starting anew with hand to hand combat in the bushes with a shotgun, it sure feels a lot like hunting again!

Just seeing one feels like a win, and if you aren't ready to shoot, that's all the win you might get.

Fish on...

Todd