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Black tail rut
« on: October 11, 2009, 07:53:08 PM »
When is peak black tail rut?
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2009, 08:01:09 PM »
varies a little but it used to be right during that late blacktail hunt Nov.17th time frame.
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2009, 08:11:15 PM »
 Don't take this personally, but I really wish you hadn't posted this. This topic bring's more "experts" out of the woodwork every year who tell everyone else how dumb they are and how much more they know about it just by being in the woods in their little knothole.


  The "peak" can vary by area and depending on the weather, but as Skyval said it seems to peak in November.

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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 08:14:44 PM »
we have the columbia cross mule deer black tail mix they seem to vary a bit end of oct threw mid novemeber depends on how cold it gets
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 08:16:06 PM »
Second week in November around here usually depending on a bunch of stuff.

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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 08:24:54 PM »
Don't take this personally, but I really wish you hadn't posted this. This topic bring's more "experts" out of the woodwork every year who tell everyone else how dumb they are and how much more they know about it just by being in the woods in their little knothole.


  The "peak" can vary by area and depending on the weather, but as Skyval said it seems to peak in November.

ONLY Nov. 16.  If anybody tells you anything different, they are WRONG.  Just kidding.  Dman's correct, somewhere around mid-Nov in my experience but I've definitely seen bucks with swollen necks in Oct.  I talked to a Game Warden in MT once (about white tails) and he told me that he thought the peak was Nov. 11.  Probably weather related and maybe day length.

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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 08:28:17 PM »
I do not know what the peak is... But last year on Oct 31, I saw many bucks with their noses up a doe's ass or on a trail of a doe. 
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2009, 08:43:32 PM »
Don't take this personally, but I really wish you hadn't posted this. This topic bring's more "experts" out of the woodwork every year who tell everyone else how dumb they are and how much more they know about it just by being in the woods in their little knothole.


  The "peak" can vary by area and depending on the weather, but as Skyval said it seems to peak in November.

ONLY Nov. 16.  If anybody tells you anything different, they are WRONG.  Just kidding.  Dman's correct, somewhere around mid-Nov in my experience but I've definitely seen bucks with swollen necks in Oct.  I talked to a Game Warden in MT once (about white tails) and he told me that he thought the peak was Nov. 11.  Probably weather related and maybe day length.
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I agree, I have seen rut activity in early October, always worth getting out then.
 

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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2009, 09:48:36 PM »
I also agree with Dman. It seems like it is usually in November sometime, but can vary by a couple of weeks. I've seen it as early as the last week in October and as late as Thanksgiving. I'm by no means an expert, but if you're in the woods when it peaks, you'll know it.
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2009, 09:52:53 PM »
I asked a WDFW biologist about the timing of the rut in an email last year, and this was his response:

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The rut for westside blacktails is pretty
well documented to happen between October 25 and November 10.

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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2009, 09:53:20 PM »
From my experience, i noticed that the blacktail rut is usually in full swing about the same time as modern firearm elk season is. But that could be because i'm hittin the brush more too. But its usually sometime in November.

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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2009, 09:57:54 PM »
I asked a WDFW biologist about the timing of the rut in an email last year, and this was his response:

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The rut for westside blacktails is pretty
well documented to happen between October 25 and November 10.

Huh, who'd a thunk it.....
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2009, 10:01:31 PM »
The buck I shot last year was on Oct 20th. He was chasing a doe and was all swelled up and stinky. I love it when they get stupid. :chuckle:
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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 08:10:26 AM »
 Buck on the left, October 17th, neck swelled to twice that size, stinking to high heavens.



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Re: Black tail rut
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2009, 09:57:24 AM »
shot  this one oct 28th i believe. pretty rutty
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