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Favorite Calif Hunting Spots for Black-tailed Deer
19 December 2005, 18:51
FjoldHere are some of my favorite California areas:
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
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19 December 2005, 19:16
ROSCOEGreat photos. I cut my teeth hunt Black Tail in Oregon...they are quite the chalenge. Is it difficult to get a tag to hunt in CA? I would guess that they get a lot of pressure.
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19 December 2005, 21:37
Skinner.quote:
Is it difficult to get a tag to hunt in CA?
Nope, not for the B zones which are the best black-tail areas, and you're allowed two bucks and you can hunt the rifle and archery seasons in any of the B zones with the same tags.
CA DFG Deer ManagementAnd there's lot's of USFS and BLM land to hunt on. Plus bear season opens with deer season and the early mountain quail season and grouse seasons are right in there too.
20 December 2005, 01:29
333_OKHCastle C. looking from the east side of Interstate 5 back at the Monument?
20 December 2005, 03:48
mho333_OKH, is that private or public land your pictures portray?? Sure is pretty!
Do you hunt by glassing the parks, or do you need to hunt BT in the woods??
- mike
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20 December 2005, 04:41
333_OKHMost of what you see is PUBLIC lands in my photos.
I change my techniques to the terrain....I prefer walking the outer boundaries of these open areas taking my time and scoping it really well. The Castle C comment of mine was for the Fjold pictures..thats what appears to be his pics. If you want to find the big guys, you will need to go deep and away ffrom the beaten path....like some of my photos.
20 December 2005, 04:47
FjoldThe first picture of mine is actually in mule deer territory about 20 miles above Johnsondale, east of Bakersfield.
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite
20 December 2005, 09:19
333_OKHLike around the Piutes and Split Mountains?
20 December 2005, 09:21
333_OKHTotally Public Lands!
20 December 2005, 09:28
boom sticksonoma coastal range for boar!
20 December 2005, 18:57
Fjoldquote:
Originally posted by 333_OKH:
Like around the Piutes and Split Mountains?
Yep
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite
20 December 2005, 20:47
loud-n-boomer333_okh
Looks like some of your photos are from the area on the east side of Redwood National Park, some from the Eel River area around Covelo, and some from just north and west of Weaverville.
Dave
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20 December 2005, 23:14
333_OKHYou got Covelo right, but the others are along Highway 36 and another near Eel Rock on the Eel River.
21 December 2005, 09:37
bulldog563333 you have a PM.
21 December 2005, 09:46
NorsemanLook's like an ideal place to have elk transplanted there!
I wonder why the state of California never had transplants of elk even though California has a small population of Tule elk?
21 December 2005, 22:32
LeanwolffFJOLD, I know where that place is. I've hunted that part of the Sierra for years. Killed a 400 pound Black bear in Peppermint Canyon area, several years ago. That's a few miles north east of Johnsondale.
I bought a vacation home in Panorama Park, Tulare County, above Posey, in 1969, and kept it until 2000. That is the only thing I miss about Calif.
333OKH, speaking of the Eel River, I killed a 300 pound Black bear just north of the Eel River, Shasta County, in 1972.
Those pictures bring back many memories.
L.W.
"A 9mm bullet may expand but a .45 bullet sure ain't gonna shrink."
21 December 2005, 22:44
BradGreat Pics... anyone hunt the Arroyo Grande / Central Coast area?
23 December 2005, 04:20
333_OKHI have to admitt it all looks great on a day like today with all of the rain. Time to go searching for pigs.
23 December 2005, 04:43
JMeierBrad,
I do some deer hunting around here.
You know the area?
23 December 2005, 05:33
FjoldI grew up in Lompoc, so all of my hunting as a kid was from Point Conception up to Vandenburg AFB. And east out toward Cuyama and the Los Padres National Forest.
Frank
"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite
23 December 2005, 20:07
Paul TunkisBrad,
Many years ago (27 now that I calculate it!) I hunted on what was at the time Huasna Cattle Co. land up Huasna Rd out of Arroyo Grande. I shot K's of ground squirrels and lots of hogs and a few of deer. The quail hunting was unbelievable. Small world.
23 December 2005, 23:08
BradOK, HunterMT, the world just got even smaller. My best friend in the wide world left Bozeman 1.5 years ago and moved to Arroyo Grande... he owns 430 acres on Huasna rd (with access to another 400) and I've a standing invite to go kill pigs... go figure!
