What terrain to hunt BTs

[predatorG]

I've got everything behind my house, hills, valleys, clearcuts, thick timber... where's the spot to get the goods?

[JimmyHoffa]

Where they all (or most) come together. 

[Jonathan_S]

Spend time scouting and watching deer.  What time of day are the feeding?  clearcuts offer the best browse.  Thick timber is where they feel safest to run all day during the rut.

Don't hurry through clearcuts, spend time watching them and glassing.

[coachcw]

in nasty weather with wind hunt the cuts

[Mongo Hunter]

I've got everything behind my house, hills, valleys, clearcuts, thick timber... where's the spot to get the goods?

BT are the ninjas of the deer world. They are pretty much everywhere and nowhere lol. If you can set up some cameras in the thick timber in bedding areas, trails that maybe you see at the edge of clear cuts, or any other area that looks like its frequented might give you an idea of what's moving through there and when.

[predatorG]

I've had some cams up but haven't had any on in a while. I'll do some more scouting and slowly hunt around.

[hunter_sean08]

Clearcuts are good for browse, but this time of year it's kind of too warm to expect to see bucks out in the open in the middle of the day. Nicest blacktail I ever got was one that had been hanging out in an old friend's backyard for most of the season with a doe he really liked. It just so happened that a logging road ran around the backside of the property that they would have to cross to get up into the reprod on the hillside above. It was game over for this guy at 15 yards as he came out onto the logging road and stood there broadside to me. Long story short, use these sorts of things to your advantage. If you don't have a specific buck you've been patterning, my advice would be to get in the woods bordering clearcuts/reprod and hunt the creek bottoms from an elevated position, hopefully near one of their trails. There's water, some food, places to bed down and hide from the heat and people. I live in Wenatchee now and haven't hunted blacktails really since '07, but that's how I would approach it if I was back on the Westside. Had a friend in high school who wouldn't even bother with clearcuts. He'd just park his rig, grab his gear and drop into the woods, staying out there as long as he needed to (all-day, all-night, sometimes multiple days) before he got his buck. Think he was going on 7 years straight getting his blacktail before I moved away from PA.

[predatorG]

 

[huntingbaldguy]

I look in timber or reprod with a clearing that has grass and other browse vegetation in it.  Almost always find bedding areas especially.  I like to set up high overlooking 3 to 5 year old clear cuts too.  See a lot of deer early and late in those kind of cuts, and occasionally mid day if you happen to spook them.  They are hard to catch up to though.  You hunting archery?  I would say the hottest spots are on the edges of young clear cuts and older timber in my limited experience.

[RadSav]

I've got everything behind my house, hills, valleys, clearcuts, thick timber... where's the spot to get the goods?

Is there an old lady in the neighborhood with lots of roses in her garden?  That would be my first choice

[predatorG]

I've got everything behind my house, hills, valleys, clearcuts, thick timber... where's the spot to get the goods?

Is there an old lady in the neighborhood with lots of roses in her garden?  That would be my first choice

Yah it's my mom  they disappear literally opening night.

[predatorG]

I look in timber or reprod with a clearing that has grass and other browse vegetation in it.  Almost always find bedding areas especially.  I like to set up high overlooking 3 to 5 year old clear cuts too.  See a lot of deer early and late in those kind of cuts, and occasionally mid day if you happen to spook them.  They are hard to catch up to though.  You hunting archery?  I would say the hottest spots are on the edges of young clear cuts and older timber in my limited experience.

Yes I am and that's what I've noticed also.

[MountainWalk]

When I want a big buck, I look for maples and ferns and blue lines.

[fishnfur]

Mountain Walk - Blue lines?

[Turner89]

Mountain Walk - Blue lines?

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