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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #30 on: October 22, 2013, 07:35:30 PM »
They are in night mode.
I have seen none in my fields during the day the past few weeks, only at dark.
I am making a stand in the evenings and early mornings, that's it.

yep saw a brute next to the Skagit County port land on farm to market rd this moring in the dark, every year just like clock work i see one there in pre rut or rut time, always a brute. anybody have friends that live in that area good hunting.

Yep never saw a shooter in E wash. Come home and go to the dump. 3x4 walks across the road at 2 pm. Right in front of me. On port property ,Ovenell & Higgins way. :bash: :bash:
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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #31 on: October 22, 2013, 07:41:57 PM »
A 1996 study by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife showed just how nocturnal mature blacktail bucks are. As part of the pre-rut study, cameras were placed along six fall migration trails, from high up in the Cascade Range to the deers' low-elevation winter range. Triggered by an infrared beam of light when an animal walked past, the cameras registered the date and time each photograph was taken. The results were eye-opening: Of the 606 deer photographed, 87 percent of the bucks traveled at night, while only 56 percent of the does and fawns traveled after dark. Also of note: 42 percent of the bucks photographed were 4 by 4s or better.
Sounds about right ...Until next week  :chuckle:
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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #32 on: October 22, 2013, 09:09:38 PM »
Was that the Monster that only grows one antler.  I see him by the transfer station all of the time.  He knows where the safe zone is :bash:

no, just north of PACAR. i have not seen the one horned brute yet.

I have 5 acres just north of PACAR. 2 nights ago I had 3 different bucks on my cam in a 2 hr period. One looks like it might be a shooter. Of course his was the worst picture of the bunch.

Dude you need to start feeding those poor creatures so they become tastier?   :chuckle: :chuckle:

You ever see the big ones?

I've seen a few really nice deer on the hill over the years.

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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #33 on: October 22, 2013, 10:41:56 PM »
10am and 2pm have always seemed to be the times we have had the most success hunting. We have named them the "Killing Hours". Last weekend i saw deer up feeding right at noon out in a clear cut.

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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2013, 08:45:15 AM »
On a sidenote, the elk finally started arriving yesterday. We saw 5 cows and a monster 5x5. I have been getting concerned because they usually arrive earlier.
I looked in the regs to see if there was a season for archery in the 550 so I could give some of you a shot at them but it is closed for late season  :dunno:
I hunt modern and I doubt the big herds will be in my fields until after the season ends, story of my life.
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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #35 on: October 23, 2013, 08:49:57 AM »
On a sidenote, the elk finally started arriving yesterday. We saw 5 cows and a monster 5x5. I have been getting concerned because they usually arrive earlier.
I looked in the regs to see if there was a season for archery in the 550 so I could give some of you a shot at them but it is closed for late season  :dunno:
I hunt modern and I doubt the big herds will be in my fields until after the season ends, story of my life.
dude i hear that, at my place i could kill an elk every year if i hunted with muzzle loader or archery, the elk are in my place all the time except rifle season, my dad messed up twice this musket season on a nice 5x5 and then one monster 6x7, and a bunch of cows... GUESS WHAT? they wont show during the rifle season though :chuckle: in 12 or 13 years i have shot one bull out back! i could have got one a couple years ago but i couldnt pull the trigger, he was a little 3pt or 3x4, i think he might be the 6x7 now but cant be for sure  :dunno: GO FIGURE :chuckle:
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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #36 on: October 23, 2013, 08:54:26 AM »
Cross your fingers man, they are starting to show, maybe we will get lucky.
Good Luck!!!
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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #37 on: October 23, 2013, 02:54:49 PM »
Seen a doe and 2 fawns, one a button buck as I picked my son up from his bus, 1:00 this afternoon.
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Re: Hunting pressured blacktails
« Reply #38 on: October 24, 2013, 07:38:21 AM »
Took a short drive in the woods yesterday. 4 does walking through a clearcut at noon. No bucks.
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