Blacktail Rut

[Phantom Gobbler]

Saw a nice Blacktail Buck tonight scent checking a doe (with a fawn) this evening.  The doe spooked and ran off a ways and then went back to feeding.  Any one else seeing signs of the Rut?

[Hillbilly270]

been rutting for over a week here on the coast.

[Taznatrz]

been rutting for over a week here on the coast.

on the coast maybe, but not in my way doe's are still with fawns in the skok....

this has to be the weirdest year i can ever remember

[PolarBear]

It's been on for a couple of weeks around the Rainier/Yelm/Tenino area.  I've seen over a dozen ducks lately with their noses to the ground or right up in some doe's business.  I damn near hit a 3x4 at Mackintosh Lake at 2:00 in the morning last week that was aggressively pushing a doe across 507.  A 3 point has been around my place chasing does at all hours of the day and attacking my daughter's 3-D buck target.

[Taznatrz]

It's been on for a couple of weeks around the Rainier/Yelm/Tenino area.  I've seen over a dozen ducks lately with their noses to the ground or right up in some doe's business.  I damn near hit a 3x4 at Mackintosh Lake at 2:00 in the morning last week that was aggressively pushing a doe across 507.  A 3 point has been around my place chasing does at all hours of the day and attacking my daughter's 3-D buck target.

Maybe i should see if the state will let me use my Skokomish rut tag in a unit that deer are actually rutting in

[backyard bucks]

they are going around here.. watched a nice 4 point mount a doe saturday morning.. then stayed with her keeping a smaller 3 point away.. pretty cool to watch. late archery can't get here soon enough

[SemperFidelis97]

While over on fox island last monday for work I seen very nice four point buck who definetely was rutting had two does in tow, and his neck was fully swollen.

[pods8]

Is this area open to the late modern season as well but just firearm restricted by chance?  That would give you a chance to hunt it still.

Opps this was in the wrong thread.

[PolarBear]

I'm watching a little forked horn buck push a yearling doe around my yard right now.

[longknife]

The islands hunting regs are shotgun, pistol, archery, muzzeloader, and just passed crossbows. any deer