NA deer slam

[big28hunter]

Let us know how your coues hunt goes. You're getting close! Best of luck.

I certainly will. I hoping I could break my unlucky streak here in NA. If not I'll have to hunt them again. Good thing is I already have a partner for coues if another hunt is needed. Thank you!

 

[big28hunter]

What about a sika deer from md?

They aren't part of the North American deer slam but I certainly want to hunt them.

 

[big28hunter]

i completed my deer slam a couple years ago and i was pretty proud of that. probably the only slam this guy will ever get.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in oregon with blacktails and muleys, then moved to idaho with the whitetails. the sitkas on Kokiak was a little spendy but you can (or could) shoot up to three deer. then AZ and old mexico coues deer. definitely the easiest slam to do IMO. you can buy leftover tags in AZ for coues and shoot decent bucks. check out AZEXTREMEGUIDES (may not be spelled that way but they have a website) they are affordable and basically just help you find the bucks. great guys. coues deer are really hard to spot so i would recommend it.

next i would like to get the columbian whitetail over in western oregon. its not recognized but not a lot of guys have killed one.

good luck.

It may be the easiest of the slams but you'd be surprised at how many hunters have actually accomplished it. Congrats and best of luck on your Columbia whitetail.

 

[mixedbag]

Anyone have good suggestions for Sitka blacktail transporters in Ak??I have the general license already for caribou,and may be enticed to run back up for sitkas if I find a decent price for the hunt.I don't think the deer tags are that much

 

[orion23]

Anyone have good suggestions for Sitka blacktail transporters in Ak??I have the general license already for caribou,and may be enticed to run back up for sitkas if I find a decent price for the hunt.I don't think the deer tags are that much

i used homer ocean charters and had a great time. hunted Kodiak Island. we hit it right tho and there were bucks everywhere. at that time we could buy up to 3 tags at 150 each.

 

[big28hunter]

I'd use Ninilchik Charters again if I ever went back. Like orion23 we hit it perfect. Bucks were all over chasing does. I went the second week of November 2007. Fishing, crabbing, fox, and duck hunting were extras on the trip and made it icing on the cake. Food wasn't to bad either. T-bone steaks with morel mushrooms, Allen's (boat captain) seafood chowder, king and dungess crabs, and halibut were some of the dinners. One of my absolute favorite hunting adventures.

 

[mixedbag]

I'll check them both out

 

[Monteman11]

mixedbag, talking with a few Ak residents that hunt blacktail, the die-off two winters ago really took a toll on the deer. I think on the North end of Kodiak, or maybe it was the south forgive me, something like a loss of 75% of the population. I hunted off Kodiak last year for four days, and never saw a deer or track where we had seen them in years past. A combination of heavy snow pushing them done and limiting the feed and slaughters on the beach as the deer had nowhere to go. Last year, they even closed deer season early. I am planning to go back up in either 2014 or 2015. That should give the deer 3 or 4 winters to get back on track. That isn't to say there aren't deer, as there certainly are, but talking with one person whom which I trust he said the quality of bucks is way down and they need a few winters to get the age class back on track.

 

[big28hunter]

Let us know how your coues hunt goes. You're getting close! Best of luck.

Thanks to an impressive guide I was able to take a coues deer. Despite a early miss and 90 degree temps. AAA Outdoors and Austin Atkinson CEO were top notch. Research is started on Columbia Blacktails to finish my North American Deer Slam. All sign points me to Oregon.