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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2010, 08:37:36 PM »
Went to Snoq Hancock right before GATE!  I am Blackie tracker!  ;)  I dont have GOOD Camera like Bone!!!  :bash:


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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2010, 08:56:34 PM »
 Great buck, you say Snohomish Hancock? Didn't know they had anything up that way.

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2010, 09:14:34 PM »
Great buck, you say Snohomish Hancock? Didn't know they had anything up that way.


Enjoy up there.  Need to be membership to get key access gates. Its fun. Enjoy...  one more day. Better hurry.... :chuckle:



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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2010, 09:26:24 PM »
I've killed 5 mulies in 5 years, but start hunting these Blacktails that are rumored to exist and you never see the dang things.  Killed my first one in my back yard today, so as not to have an empty freezer for the year.

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2010, 09:37:10 PM »
I think Blackies are the hardest to tag. I've bag Whitetails (you can pattern) & Mulies (dumb) but Blackies just disappear during early season.
Late season is a differant story.

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2010, 10:27:53 PM »
I think I might give up on this hunting thing after this season until I move somewhere where the animals are less confusing.

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2010, 08:22:01 AM »
Blacktails are tough.  However, if you persevere, you will succeed in figuring them out.  Took me almost 15 yrs of shooting forkies and such, before I actually figured out where the big boys go and hang.  Oh, and once it starts storming, head to the thick alder/vine maple bottoms, they WILL be there.

But then, I am a buck magnet.  Even if I do not want to shoot one, they will step out in front of me and make me shoot.
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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2010, 08:27:16 AM »
My buddy showed me a pic of a hog 5x5 he took a picture of yesterday. Too bad there was a house and a school in the background! Those big suckers are smart.
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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2010, 08:34:48 AM »
My motto is: "A bad day of mule deer hunting, beats a good day of blacktail hunting."
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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2010, 09:29:16 AM »
Blacktails ae a differnt hunt thats  foresure  the second week should be better. i would hunt   437 or  448 ,both areas hold  nice bucks  but ya gotta get up early and hike in,never had one just jump out and commit suicide :chuckle:

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2010, 09:51:47 AM »
One thing I notice is that folks who stick to glassing clearcuts on timber company land seem to go home empty handed more often than not.  You kind of have to find that inner predator in you and go after these deer in the timber.  You might not be able to pattern a particular buck, but you can find areas that have good characteristics.

I'll find clearcuts where reprod is 4 to 10 feet tall.  Its a bonus if the clearcut is surrounded by old clearcuts that are overgrown to 30 feet tall.  Find yourself an old skid road that is overgrown into that taller reprod and you've likely found yourself easy way to get in and move around without making a ton of noise.  I really like the roads that have been bull-dozed so full-sized vehicles can't be driven down.

Then, slink around as quiet as you can in the timber.  Stay about 100 yards deep from the timberline to the clearcut or if you're walking an overgrown road, glass through holes on both sides of the road and anything that looks suspicious.  Most bucks will let you walk right by and play the "you can't see me" game with you.  But, if you have a suspicion that there is something in a spot, stay there and make it uncomfortable and you might get him to move.  They are quiet, so unless its really dry, you probably won't hear them and they've probably already heard you coming and have melted away.  They don't call them ghosts for nothing.

When I used to live on the east side, I loved to hunt mulies in the breaks or in steppe/coulee land.  Now that I live on the west side and its harder to scout my old spots and hunt them, I have to make due and I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.  But, I'm probably only seeing 5 to 10% of the bucks that I'm getting close to.
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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2010, 10:33:27 AM »
Blacktail is the hardest of the deer in this state to kill a trophy, hands down........... (now let the pissin match start  :hello:)

Wa state? Maybe the world! :bash: Love hunting em though!

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2010, 10:44:45 AM »
Blacktail is the hardest of the deer in this state to kill a trophy, hands down........... (now let the pissin match start  :hello:)

Wa state? Maybe the world! :bash: Love hunting em though!

There is a reason, you do not see any hunting shows depicting blacktail hunts in the PNW.  Just to tough a hunt.  I love it!
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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #28 on: October 31, 2010, 09:26:52 PM »
Here is a Blacktail that I got a few years ago. I hate them too but I am can't stop hunting the wiley little *censored*s.

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Re: I hate blacktails. Never hunting them again.
« Reply #29 on: October 31, 2010, 10:17:10 PM »
Nice buck!  Add me to the list of hateing this deer, I've been telling my buddies for years how much I hate blacktails.... but I'm still going after them.  By far the toughest animal to hunt, period- as far as trophy blacktail's go.
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