180 inch Columbia Blacktail Buck

Redbluff77

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• Jul 19, 2023

• #1

I saw a picture of this buck on the Bend/ Oregon area Facebook marketplace classifieds. The posting has since been taken down. I have a hard time believing this is a real 180" Columbia Blacktail Buck. Something doesn't look right in this picture. What do you guys think?

 

eelgrass

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• Jul 20, 2023

• #2

I'm with you. It's too spindly to be a mature Blacktail. I say no way.

 

buckspotter7

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• Jul 20, 2023

• #3

plus 1 on the spindly bases. “fro” looks wierd, tiny ear and pedicle gap too wide. Taxi fake (mule deer antlers, blacktail cape) is my guess!

 

Last edited: Jul 20, 2023

Redbluff77

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• Jul 20, 2023

• #4

That's what I was thinking, blacktail cape with mule deer antlers. Those antlers would be thicker if that was a trophy blacktail

 

Stillwater165

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• Jul 20, 2023

• #5

You couldn’t pay me to hang that whatever it is on my wall ! Ugly as sin ! Shady…….

 

heywouldya

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• Jul 21, 2023

• #6

Terrible mount! It does look like the spacing on the antlers (pedicle) are too far apart. Just looks weird.

 

eelgrass

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• Jul 21, 2023

• #7

I hope someday Homer gets to score it.

 

JB1975

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• Jul 21, 2023

• #8

Was that on Tristate’s FB page?

 

Redbluff77

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• Jul 21, 2023

• #9

JB1975 said:

Was that on Tristate’s FB page?

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I don't know. I'm not on FB. A friend from Oregon sent me the original buck pic

 

JPickett

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• Jul 23, 2023

• #10

Black tail cape but that’s about it

 

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The_Whitetail_Kid

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• Jul 24, 2023

• #11

Looks like black tail cape with muley horns.

 

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Togwotee

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• Jul 28, 2023

• #12

Only a DNA test would convince me that's a black tail.

I'm a B&C measurer near Bend and I've never seen or heard anything about it.

 

Sparks Shooter

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• Jul 30, 2023

• #13

Antlers don't look blacktail or 180" to me.----SS

 

Buckhunter1955

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• Aug 8, 2023

• #14

If that’s a blacktail then I’m a democrat.