Calling in Blacktails

[PolarBear]

Good call!  I know too many people that keep "scouting" a rub line over and over again before season only to push that buck into the next county.

[DoubleJ]

I found it on Oct 29 and didn't get a chance to put a kid on it after that.  Hoping he's still there

[PolarBear]

 

[deerhunter_98520]

I rattled 3 bucks in this season 

[pope]

Which Primos can is best? Is the Lil' can sufficient?

[DoubleJ]

I have the full size can and cover half of it with my hand.  I got it before they started making smaller cans so I use what I have

[PolarBear]

I use the little can and it works fine.

[akirkland]

The rut is done around here but I have had great luck rattling and calling using the Primos "can".  I prefer not to rattle as aggressively with blacktails as I do with whities.  Not as hard of hits and more soft little tip tickles.  And then there is rattling..   

Polarbear...I disagree Sir. I watched a dandy buck yesterday. He could care less about my presence. A 30 second stare down within 30 yards of me. I could of killed him 10 times. Put his nose to the ground and meandered off. Later in the day I watched a couple of nice spikes with their noses literally up some does arses. I saw more bucks than does yesterday. It might be winding down but love is still in the air. At least in our backyards, if you will.

[PolarBear]

This year is weird!  The bucks around my place came in a couple of weeks earlier than those just a few miles down the road.  We had 3 bucks fighting hard the last weekend of regular rifle season but have no interest in does right now.  We had a 3 point in the yard eating acorns the other day and didn't want anything to do with the does feeding down in the pasture.  In fact, it was almost like we was trying to avoid them.  This is the same buck that was trying his hardest (no pun intended) to mount the same doe that he is avoiding from a couple of weeks ago.  At the same time the bucks that my buddy was seeing in Vail and those that my Dad was watching in Shelton had zero interest in rutting at the same time that our locals were going crazy.  I have heard many times this year how spotty the rut was and how much it varied from place to place. 

[akirkland]

Thats bizarre. I saw active rut activity from Alder Lake to Chehalis. Just hope they are still active on Thursday.

[Old Man Yager]

 

[Old Man Yager]

Those of you that have rattled in a few, what kind of set up do you use? Are you using tree stands? Ground blinds? Setting up near an active rub or rub lines?

[PolarBear]

Okay, apparently I was wrong again.     Just when it looked like everything had calmed down......  Last night around 11:30 or so I was sitting in the hot tub just soaking away when the motion light on my kids play house (about 40 yards away) went on.  A big doe went scurrying up through the yard like it was trying to get away from something.  I was done with my soak so I shut off the tub.  As soon as the motors wound down all I could hear was the ground being torn up, antlers crashing and grunting down in the pasture about 100 yards away.  By the time I got out and found a flashlight they had gone and set off the motion light on the barn.  I went down to the pasture and it was all torn up and a couple of steaming pee spots.  My cows were on the opposite side of the pasture bedded down so I know it wasn't them.  I never did see them but they made one hell of a racket.

[Old Man Yager]

I just had a big 3x3 cross Meridian out here in Graham, and he was still in the RUT!!

[Skyvalhunter]

Doesn't surprise me since some of the late blacktail permits are the 15th-20th. That 3rd weekend is a good time for the blacktail rut.