..you've been managing your hunting lease for trophy potential for the last 25 years....



..and they cancel your lease.


kill 'em all.

Stacked like cord wood, seriously.

Holy Sh#t. I don't know how to feel about that one.

I would hate to see the taxidermy bill for that day.

Why are there only spikes and fork horn bucks left around here? Son of a .......! That is some funny shiat.

Is there more of a story behind this one Stam?? Where is that?? Looks like midwest 2 me. . .

thats the worst display of outdoorsmen ever, i would be emabarrased, and ashamed to be in that picture

Cabelas decorating staff?

That story reminds me of something I was involved in. When I was growing up, our property bordered about 75 acres of reprod, that was surrounded by developments on one side, farms on 2 sides, and vast forest land on the back. It was full of deer. Several nice blacktails made their home there. We were very protective of them, and access to the area was very minimal. No one hunted it.

I had the bucks pretty well memorized and knew their habits/hangouts enough that I could find a few nice deer within hours. I used them to practice stalking, and watching animal behavior. Well, my folks decided to sell and I was there when the husband was going through the place. He started talking about how he knew there were big bucks back in there, and how he couldn't wait to cull a few.

That got me thinking, and I more or less decided that I would determine what bucks were left for him (this was completely based on selfishness, as far as I can remember - I was about 18 or 19). He is a nice guy, I shouldn't have done it to the degree I did. I started taking friends and friends of friends back there to hunt those deer. They all shot bucks. I even had a guy come out and borrow a rifle, and shoot a tremendous 4x3 within about 2 hours of his first hunt ever. He came with little opera glasses on a stick for binoculars for Chrissakes!

I can say I saw a lot of people shoot their first deer, but looking back it was a mistake, to wipe out all of those bucks. I never shot one myself, but if I ever wanted any meat I had like 12 different numbers to call.

No sh*t!!

possibly a deer farm? who would take a pic of that mass slotter any ways

Over a million Deer,get harvested in some single States alone. Why is it "bad form" to lump a few together,for a picture?

I figure it far worse form to use "slotter" as a word.

Is a bucket of KFC frightful?

Some states have rules that allow harvesting multiple deer in a single day. Alaska is one (residents can get 10, non residents 4 in certain areas).

Would you feel differently if it was 11 guys standing on a beach with legal limits of coho or pinks stacked up in front of them? Hmmm...

Deer are Vermin in some locales,just as Doves are. Pretty tough to lose sleep over Resource Management being instilled in common sense accords.

For some reason,I'd even go so far as to say the group photo will not skew relative tablefare either.

There I fixed it for you--and yes I would feel differently

2 deer per person? whats the big deal?
So what if they put them altogether for a group photo.

I have looked at that pic several times this week and am still not sure what to think.

First I thought, HOLY SH-T.

Then I thought, there are some very nice bucks in there.

Then I am thinking, why the hell dont they get those things hanging so there is no meat spoilage.

Now I am pissed because I was invited to the slaughter.

Hard horns and the garb associated,hardly hint at sweltering heat and instantaneous meat spoilage.

Always funny to me,how those that do the least,bitch the most.

Ol' Dirty Bucket they should have called ya...

Huh....

I didn't post it to start a controversy.....just an interesting photo as I was impressed that anybody, anywhere, could stack up that many that fast of that caliber.

Killing and photographing them one at a time may seem more sportsmanlike to some, but a dead deer is a dead deer whether it's in a pile or solo.

I have no details other than those in the original post.

Liked your story Red Rocket, no need to feel you did wrong.

If it's legal that's cool...I guess from this area, we are'nt used to getting a chance to shoot (2) really nice bucks in the same trip....

Seems strange to me that some people confuse legistlation with ethics or morals...

Having said that, I still don't mind the guys in the picture killing a few deer.

One by-product of that photo is possably showing that big whitetail bucks are not the toughest big game in north america to bag.

I would guess that that pile of deer did not come hard.

Show me a pile of blacktails like that, from anytime...anywhere, blacktails may not be the coolest but a truly big blacktail in the brush IS the toughest....I know, I never got one and lord knows I tried.

Stam
If you want to do a Sept trophy blacktail hunt on Kodiak and catch silvers and Halibut in 60 to 120' of water on what feels like a lake let me know.

Blacktail can ball up at times and cold decking them is far from impossible.

It's easy if you're BigStick ;)...mere mortals prowlin' around the reprod in western wa tend to hang their tags on the garage wall more often than not.

"Luck" is easy to dole in copious amount,for those inclined.

Joe Average is a very dismal barometer of evaluation,for that which is both possible and predictable,for those predisposed to success.

Many overlook that factoid.

I'm no stranger to either luck or success, and generally never counted on one for the other...though I never shook her off when lady luck came callin', I failed to put in the hours required for the bigol' bucks as my obsession drew me to the elk...and I generally took being called lucky with a grain of salt as I know that luck doesn't follow one person as it has followed me.

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Elk held my interest for a spell and if they did not vocalize,wear hi-vis coats,run trails,stink and herd...they'd be a challenge.

I dig Dlacktail because they are slippery.

I'll take all the gratis luck I can get,but focus expressly on making my own.

Sometimes the challenge has to come from the style.

Challenge #1 was just getting to where they were.

Challenge#2 was killing the biggest MF'er in the woods.

Challenge#3 was killing them with homemade sh.it

Challenge#4 was getting massive amounts of meat back to the freezer

Never put down elk.....it could piss me off

I never made a road kill on elk, in fact I had a hard time finding able partners that had the inclination to go deep.




















But......I give blacktail their due, amazing beasts and I know they live and die of old age right among us.

I see many of your pics of the SE AK coastal bucks and dandies they are, but they tend to be out........in the open, it's a rare *good* buck that tips over down here in a clearcut.... with the occasional rut exception. cagey brutes.

I feel inspired....


not being one to brag ;)...but, I've held my tongue long enough.


I used to kill sh.it.


this bull certainly isn't the biggest, but I think I had to shoo him back a touch so I could draw my bow, still have the chunk of skull where the arrow penetrated into his brain cavity on the first shot, and as he was smoking down the hill I put one where it belonged.



...and it was deep, no easy packs for me.

From my youth, before grey hair and whiskers and discovering that traditional is much, much more rewarding.



I suspect that I'm a bit tired as this one was a bit of a pack, me and brother got it done in a couple of trips from 3 miles and 2500ft up the hill



just making meat.

one of the bonuses of going where most won't (okay, nobody will) is all the cool crap you find.







they don't all make it through.

http://www.piscatorialpursuits.com/uploads/UP1632.jpg

back to the big ones....

tough hunt, tougher pack.....find finley lake and you can find this gene pool.



and this....probably my favorite rack, it hangs in a place of honor in the guide shack in forks



There ya' go Bret, mebee not worth a thousand words.........but close?

I've been waiting a couple of years to see those pictures Stam.

It was worth the wait.

Damn! Is that GI Joe or Dr. Benton Quest?

1,001. Awesome man.

funny that you mention Mr. Joe as my early years (pre-nintendo) (pre "pong") (pre-color teevee) were spent makeing little bows and arrows and pretending to be Mr. G.I. Joe...guess I grew up kinda slow.


Who is Dr. Bannon Quest, not familiar....?

That's the rack in the coffee shop?

oh god no, hangs high on the wall on the bigboys playhouse in sappho, the coffee shop bull is pretty standard.

I will wsy that a trip into the saw shop in forks is worth the visit, couple of interesting items in there and all displayed nicely....I like the random irreverent style.

i was gonna say... looks a lot smaller in person

or is that what she said?

that's funny, i used to go in jed's almost everyday on the way to work when i was logging, but it was always so early in the morning that i never really looked around at anything other than whatever the hell i'd gone in there for.

That is all I can say, besides WOW !!!

Awesome pics.....trad to boot. Thanks for posting em.

Damn Stam! I now see why you don't hunt anymore.....you're not any good at it.

Ike

Nice photos my man, and to think I figured you was just a run of the mill hillbilly all these years.

Turns out you're an exceptional hillbilly.

Hat's off to ya............

Now to find Finley on my USGS

Nice pics stam.

So why did you stop?

Yeah fishing is cool, but hunting is something I can not live without. Planning, preparing, and waiting for the hunt is half the fun for me.

Could you pass the grey poupon?

Holly cow Satm!! Those are some very cool pics! B.S. shows some great pcis also. But anyone able to get animals like that in WA. is truly great! And I have to agree with you 100% A big blacktail in WA during any season is a very hard animal to come by!! So do you want to be my guide? Very Cool!
Buck

No, but I got a 2 Pak of Costco Mustard you're welcome to borrow...........

KK, offering his Kirkland brand Mustard--now I've heard it all!

Great pics. I'd definitely agree that whitetails are easier to hunt than blacktails, and mule deer are easier than whitetails. Maybe that's because I grew up hunting whitetails or something so I understand them better. I know that I'm 0-for-3 on blacktails of any kind and am getting discouraged.

Wow. You were not kidding when you told me it would be worth my while to check out these photos.