No BS on Black Tails Going Nocturnal

[JDHasty]

My binds are huge but they gather lots of light in the deep dark timber.

I know three guys who use the old 8x56 Swaro SL Porros.  They are huge, these guys are some of the most consistently successful I know on big bucks.

[huntingbaldguy]

Porros have amazing low light clarity, but you basically said why most don't use them.  They are massive.  Roof prisms have come a long ways though in that category.

[Butchmeathook]

Special T,
  I will find that book and read it!!!  Thank you!!

[JDHasty]

Porros have amazing low light clarity, but you basically said why most don't use them.  They are massive.  Roof prisms have come a long ways though in that category.

Tell me about it!  Massive, but amazing in low light.  I used Docter Nobilem 8x56 until they got stolen.  They have huge prisms and I think they are the number one low light performer ever.  I am probably going to either get another pair, or a pair of Nobilem 7x50 center focus again. 

[JDHasty]

Special T,
  I will find that book and read it!!!  Thank you!!

I find them in Half Price Books all the time. 

[Butchmeathook]

Just ordered both, they are on there way!!

[Special T]

Just ordered both, they are on there way!!

The trophy tactics 2 is just an updated version of the first one. No reason to buy them both.
There is another title by another author I have have heard discussed on here.

[JDHasty]

Just ordered both, they are on there way!!

The trophy tactics 2 is just an updated version of the first one. No reason to buy them both.
There is another title by another author I have have heard discussed on here.

A cat named Haugen has a book that is pretty good and Cameron Haynes does as well.  There is also a guy name Terkla who has a BT hunting book.  That about covers all of the books available except there is one by a guy named Higley, but it is more of a story book than a how to improve your success book.  There just isn't a lot of material out there that has been published in book form on hunting blacktails.  If it is a chapter on hunting BTs that is included in a general deer hunting book it is my experience that it is all poppycock and balderdash with a scoop of bovine excrement on the side.   

[Butchmeathook]

I figured II was and update of I but might as well get them both as I found them as a set anyways and pretty cheap!!!  And I will keep doing my homework for the years to come!!!!  A good way to spend my nights when I am out of the country!!!

[AKBowman]

I've seen a lot of bucks back in bachelor groups out during the day time feeding with the cold weather we've been having.

In 7 year of hunting BT I've never seen a bachelor group of bucks in December. I've never seen them group back up until they shed and start to grow more than nubs. First I've ever seen bachelor groups of bucks is in March/early April.

That's cool through. I would love to see it in my area.

[SkookumHntr]

There's a good blacktail episode on expedition safari right now! Hunting the ghosts! There explaining them spot on!!

[scotsman]

But they sure get dumb in October. This guy was so tired from staying up all night chasing the girls that he just said "Hey, kill me now it dont get any better." I took a couple of posed pictures and let hom go back to sleep.

[fishnfur]

Is that what a BT buck looks like??   

[Ebfuego]

Yes, I agree that these are the toughest deer to hunt mostly because of the thick brush they love to hide in. You have to go in after them quite a bit. Sometimes they will walk out in front of you because they are curious. This one is from 2005 that made the B&C 33rd with the Official score of 144 for true Columbia Blacktail. There are also Western Wa. Blacktail over at the Olympic range and Cascade Blacktail over here. He was deep 180 yards in the thick forest. I spotted a doe and I didnt even see him then he turned his head. Looked like a tree moving. This other one I got 10/30/16 withing 3 miles of the other. I have harvested 5 out of the past 7 years by just going into the thick.

[bobcat]

Really? That's a blacktail? What a buck!