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Until recently, here in Oregon, you could shoot spikes east of the Cascades, primarily mule deer, but you couldn't shoot spikes on the west side, primarily blacktail. Of course, deer don't recognize unit boundaries, so you occasionally find blacktails on the east side and mule deer on the west.

One day while hunting on the west side I ran across a big old potbellied, swayback, roman nose, gray faced grandpappy of all grandpappy mule deer with 15-inch spike antlers. The left antler had about a two-inch ball on the end of it but no fork. I really wanted to shoot that buck, but the letter of the law said No.
 
Not necessarily surprising, just interesting. This was on the SKC campus. The tribe has collar data showing they hang around the school sometimes, but the bears people see are usually black bears. Griz will usually run the black bears off around here, so it's interesting to see them coexist in such a small area with little (known) conflict with each other. Plenty of garbage cans and chokecherries for everyone, I suppose. :p
https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2013/apr/19/grizzly-attacks-pablo-student-6/
Sometimes they aren't so well behaved
 

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