What would you do?

[PA BEN]

What ever. Lets see your pictures. BTW, if I aim for the heart from a tree I will hit above the heart. And if he jumps the string I might hit him in the back or over his back.

[haus]

freakin' blacktails  their evil, all of 'em 
Think I bit off more than I can chew, need more time to pattern him, he's pulled back his travel line from where I first located one edge of his territory and all the rest of his little hiding hole is reprod and alder, none of which will allow for setting up a stand unless I want to see how well the tree's could hold 250lb's + stand, think I'll pass on that  Only option is to go in after him. bear spray in quick draw strapped to my forearm  past experiences in the area, they never exactly ran away either, and now I got no 300mag in hand eshhh. part of the excitement I guess     

Maybe I'll get lucky on christmas and end up with a trial cam, least i can see just how big this buck really is 

I did find the primary feeding area near his territory, which out of the whole area seems to be doeville. the only cut around, bout 3yrs old. Figure I'll just park my arse on the edge of it, very least I can fill my tag with something.

btw thanks for the scent suggestions, they work well, just not on big daddy for some reason. I'd seen a few other rub lines during my mid day cruising and dropped some off on adjacent tree's, couple bucks responded by beating the snot out of nearest small sapling. no time to figure out when their movin' through those spots though  gonna give it a whirl on the edge of the cut next weekend.

Really enjoying the archery hunting though, I hope I connect with something this season, requires such different approach, taking some time to adapt, especially on ground where moving to deer is damn near impossible in most cases.

For the archery guys....how small of an area do you focus your blacktail hunting on?

[PA BEN]

You want him to stay? Apples and Cob. The does will come and eat and so will he. If you can't kill him, doe meat is better then tag soup. 

[haus]

You want him to stay? Apples and Cob. The does will come and eat and so will he. If you can't kill him, doe meat is better then tag soup. 

funny ya mention it.

didn't even know ya could do such a thing in this state till few weeks ago when I read it on here, still called wdfw  . we've tossed the idea around, last sunday mid-day threw out some Del's feed we had stored in the barn, horses looked at me like  wtf!! as i left with their candy. been workin since so i dunno if it got noticed yet. dropped it in a plan B spot not near pig.

[haus]

mmm deer tag nom nom nom  
many days of hunting dark to dark   maybe for my first attempt at archery blacktail hunting trying to take on a post rut seasoned buck was not the best idea    

learned a whole lot though. hope to get a cam someday so I can see how big this one really is  

archery hunting though......it's freakin' fun I'm hooked  

[Kowsrule30]

At least you had a good time!!!  Maybe next year you'll get to fling an arrow!!!

[haus]

At least you had a good time!!!  Maybe next year you'll get to fling an arrow!!!

boss just said I can have thursday off and the weathers gonna be bout right, unlike this last weekend when I couldn't wiggle a toe without makin a *** load of noise. 

9.5hrs *nerves* if its brown its down time