kybuck20032001

would like to find a decent place to hunt blacktail deer. Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Muliefever

Your absolute Best bet will be Northern California! Followed closely by southern to mid Oregon. I also seen some nice bucks taken in South West Washingon State. By far the hardest deer I have hunted to date! Very rewarding though!

JNTURK

yep norther CA or north eastern CA are probably best for size etc.......for most deer taken would be A zone which runs from souther CA to central CA......shoot me a PM with any specific questions and i can point you in the right direction..

also...they are not like any whitetail and are much harder to hunt, IMO....which makes them a great challenge to hunt

HOGHUNTINGUNLIMITED

I live in grants pass Oregon and there arequiet a few of them around here but they are really hard to hunt in the thick brush so anywhere that doesn't have any brush would be pretty easy if you are doing it with a rifle.

salukipv1

sitka blacktail? Kodiak Island.....though I suspect you meant columbian blacktail

kybuck20032001

is there anywhere around there where a guy might be able to spot and stalk one
Thanks for the help

HOGHUNTINGUNLIMITED

sure if you get up into these clear cuts where they have cleared all the trees out the you usally get out really early in the morning and take a spotting scope and find the buck you wan't and see what happens!

are you bowhunting???

kybuck20032001

i would use a rifle for the hunt. i love my bow . But I have heard that blacktail is the hardest deer there is to hunt.

HOGHUNTINGUNLIMITED

yeah they are a little harder than whitetails but you could do it with a rifle! then if you bow hunt you can shoot the deer when they still have there velvit on for the first 8 days of the season. so if you go rifle hunting you should have a buck down!

kybuck20032001

do you have any suggestions about good public land. I envy all of you western hunters. as far as animals go you all have a wider variety.