I got 84 pounds of meat off of him. Was told he was a big deer, have no reference, as he is my first.

That is a freaking awesome blacktail! Congrats!

That is a dang fine buck, congratulations!

One brow tine was broken off in a fight evidently.

They get broken off pretty frequently. Some don’t grow any. That one you pictured is what they typically branch out like. Some have points off of a continuous main beam, almost whitetail like.
I have hunted other species down south. The Sitka Blacktail is the most fun and by far my favorite of them all.

I grew up hunting Columbia Blacktails and that would be a dandy for them. For a Sitka that is a brute!

Here's a picture from the feild. Aktis calls worked good for me.

Nice buck!

I used Hornaday 5.56 Black 75 gr. hollow points, shot was at 10 yards, in the neck, broke it and exited. I did feel the need for a longer ranging caliber at some larger muskegs and cuts, but most of called or jumped deer were within 50 yards. Two friends used .308's, and they worked well, each killing a deer with one shot, both under 100 yards, with little meat damage. Two other friends killed one deer each with 7mm Remington Magnums, one at 100 yards, the other at 40, both tore up a lot of meat. One friend used a .338 Win. Mag., and double lunged a deer at 20 yards. The shock some how made the diaphragm and stomach burst, which tainted a lot of meat. These are my observations from seeing 6 deer killed. If I ever go back, I would like to take a .270 for longer shots and the possibility of bumping into a large black bear. This was on POW where there are no brown bear. 3 deer were under 100 pounds, two deer were around 120, mine weighed 189.

Any guesses on his score? Going to score him, never scored an animal before.

10 yards, gotta love chasing the Sitka Blacktails. You never know how the encounter will work out.
Glad you got him and that the .223 did the job for ya.

That's a really nice Sitka.

Got it cleaned.

Beautiful deer and great job on the skull. It sounds like you had a blast.

95ish net B&C

Thanks for your guesstimate, isnarewolves. Does anyone know if the second pair of brow tines would make it nontypical? It is really symetrical, except where it broke a brow tine off fighting.

Not sure if your looking to buy a new 270 but I just recently got my wife a CVA Cascade which is the Bergara economy line. Hers is a 6.5 creedmore, all I can say is after shooting it I didn't want to give it back lol printed cloverleaf's right out of the box. I highly recommend........

Awesome job on the skull! Looks fantastic!

Thats a great buck!