First archery hunt: Late season BT

[ljsommer]

Hello all,

   I am heading out 11/21 for my first archery hunt for blacktail. I am planning on getting out there early and I am bringing estrus urine and a call. My plan for day one is to hunt high, around some sign I saw when I was doing modern elk. Day two I plan on hunting the edges of clearcuts until i find a trail with sign and then pursuing that.

Any tips? Western jungle of course.

[scotsman]

Hmmm. Silence is your friend. Calling or scent will just let the m know sooner where to avoid. Blackies like to spend most of their time 50 to 100 feet inside the old growth or reprod adjoining a clearcut. I have tagged a couple by sneaky peeping along the game trail inside the dark timber. They will know you are there but will wait until you pass .... LOOK BACK! They will stand up after you go past... You’ll have maybe 10 seconds before the vanish into thin air. This will work any time of day but first couple hours of daylght best for me.

[ljsommer]

Hmmm. Silence is your friend. Calling or scent will just let the m know sooner where to avoid. Blackies like to spend most of their time 50 to 100 feet inside the old growth or reprod adjoining a clearcut. I have tagged a couple by sneaky peeping along the game trail inside the dark timber. They will know you are there but will wait until you pass .... LOOK BACK! They will stand up after you go past... You’ll have maybe 10 seconds before the vanish into thin air. This will work any time of day but first couple hours of daylght best for me.

So you suggest no estrus drag-rag or anything of the sort?

[Special T]

Byod Iversons blacktail trophy tactics 2

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[ljsommer]

Byod Iversons blacktail trophy tactics 2

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I've read it a couple times but I always like to get a variety of views.

[scotsman]

I have never had any response from a BT buck to estrous scent. But if you find an area of fresh rubs set your tree stand and use classic rattling / grunting techniques. Boyd Shelby used to guide professionally for big bt bucks and this was his method. He got some monsters!

[fishnfur]

Urine is fine if you're planning on hunting a spot.  You can drag a rag around a perimeter in part of a cut or in a big figure eight below a tree your in.  You're hoping the wind will carry the scent into an area you suspect a buck is in or will pass through.  You want to post up where the wind won't carry your scent along with the urine's.  This is a hit and miss tactic.  It seems to work pretty well sometimes and fails miserably others.  Posting up inside the timbered edge above the cut (or perhaps an alder flat) in which you've used a perimeter drag rag, and then rattling might get you some close in action too. 

Getting up above the deer with a bow is always preferable to being down at their level.

[Skyvalhunter]

Ask Shane how easy it is hunting blacktail

[TimBaleia]

Goodluck on 21st.

Can I join someone for late archery?

Thanks!