Westside Blacktail rut?

[racksandtails]

Don't give up on the daylight hours.  Blacktails will change position throughout the day to keep the wind at their back while keeping and eye on their back trail.  If you know where he beds, he should be easy pickins.  He has a secondary feeding location guaranteed and he feeds in relationship to the winds.  Find the correlation, stay in your stand until you can't see and he will be hanging on your wall.

[coachcw]

you might try throwing down some sent and a decoy . If he's the domonant buck he may show him self. the other way may be to hunt through his zone kinda fast then turnaround and back track slowly , this may cause him to move . I've taken many deer off the island with a shotgun most were trying to back door me after i hunted through there bedding area. good luck he looks like a healthy buck.

[longstevo]

I've seen blacktails in full rut the week before Thanksgiving. 

[JCClement]

I saw them in rut during the first weeks of the late archery season in 2008.

[billythekidrock]

According to a recent Outdoor Life article, the number one trophy day in the NW is November 11th.

[krout81]

Seen Blacktails chasing does in Late Season Archery many different years.  Also have not seen any bucks in late season several years.  Seems like the Buck I got in 07 late season was rutting he was quite puffy in the neck.