{"id":193974,"date":"2024-04-07T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T21:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=193974"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:33:43","slug":"hunt365-take-the-shot-blacktail-buck-in-the-grapevines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-take-the-shot-blacktail-buck-in-the-grapevines\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKE THE SHOT: Blacktail Buck In the Grapevines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hunting the verdant vineyards of the California coast for Columbian Blacktail deer was a new and enjoyable experience for the author. There are plentiful deer and beautiful vistas everywhere you might look.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span><\/span>Estimated reading time: <\/span>13<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author searched for hours to locate a particular big old buck, and now he has him in his sights. But so are the barns and buildings of the Winery Headquarters. Can he take the shot?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Pacific Coast, beginning in California and running northward along Oregon and Washington and into British Columbia, lives a small cousin to our more common mule deer<\/a>. Known as the Columbian Blacktail deer, they look somewhat like a diminutive muley. They are challenging to hunt, mostly because there is not a lot of readily available public land upon which an aspiring hunter can venture, but also because much of the land that is available is deep forest. Rain-wet, fern-filled, big-timber stuff where visibility is limited and shots tend to be hard-earned and close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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