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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2019, 09:04:41 AM »
Find big steep reprod to glass Into. If I can get within 700 yards im a happy camper!

Yikes, I’m gonna have to knock off about 400 yards of that.. lol..

Well of course closer is better. 😁

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2019, 11:50:38 PM »
As already mentioned, glassing reprod. I like finding a spot where you can see the ends of ridges out of view from anywhere else. Today (and most days) I found deer bedded in the brushy corners of clearcuts along the tree lines. My daughter killed her first buck, a nice 2pt bedded at the base of a big stump at 1:30pm. They love that soft rotten material.

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2019, 12:59:23 AM »
As already mentioned, glassing reprod. I like finding a spot where you can see the ends of ridges out of view from anywhere else. Today (and most days) I found deer bedded in the brushy corners of clearcuts along the tree lines. My daughter killed her first buck, a nice 2pt bedded at the base of a big stump at 1:30pm. They love that soft rotten material.


I preferred the middle of a newer clear cut when I'm not paying attention method today.

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2019, 05:03:44 AM »
Not a good situation for a deer hunter. The deer will feed and move at night. You might be lucky enough to catch then at dawn and dusk shooting hours
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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2019, 07:50:33 AM »
First 2 hours of am hit the clear cuts , try to jump them throughout the day with taking breaks at spots to glass for them moving and last 2 hours sit on a cut

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2019, 11:43:39 AM »
Thanks for all the replies.. glassed up a few does the last two mornings on the edges of clear cuts, but no bucks to be found for me. It’s 11:40am now and I’m slowly working through some reprod that’s fairly okay to navigate. Had one deer snort-wheeze at me, then bailed. Never saw that one. Gonna continue the still hunt and hope to find something bedded down in here. There’s tons of trails and beds all over in here. An occasional rub on a Xmas tree here and there. Thanks again to all you  BT pros for the guidance! It’s greatly appreciated. !

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2019, 02:39:25 PM »
Keep after it only takes one man

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2019, 06:16:57 PM »
As already mentioned, glassing reprod. I like finding a spot where you can see the ends of ridges out of view from anywhere else. Today (and most days) I found deer bedded in the brushy corners of clearcuts along the tree lines. My daughter killed her first buck, a nice 2pt bedded at the base of a big stump at 1:30pm. They love that soft rotten material.


I preferred the middle of a newer clear cut when I'm not paying attention method today.

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2019, 06:25:57 AM »
I went up Wednesday and found a good reprod and glassed it for the last two hours of the day. Didn't see anything. When I packed up and was headed home I saw a nice 2pt buck standing along side the road.  >:(

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Re: What’s your Go To sunny weather blacktail tactic ??
« Reply #24 on: November 01, 2019, 06:58:10 AM »
My tactic is getting busted by does sneaking up to a cut to start glassing. It is *so dry* out there right now, everything is loud. That said, once you get into position, as someone else mentioned: the deer are quite loud too. I got busted off a heavy 3pt at 165 yd by the doe. He never even looked around, just followed her right out. Tried for 4 hours to locate, but they'd moved into an inaccessible basin (would've had to push through a quarter mile of steep cut debris).

 


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