October blacktails

[3nails]

 Rainy days generally kill my hunts. I hunt the high country where rain means clouds which means virtually zero visibility. Bluebird days are what I need the most and those nocturnal big bucks don't just cease to exist. You just got to sneak into there bedroom and whack them there. As said before, the last 4 days of the month (Oct) are by far the best days to kill a big one. This is one of the few rainy day bucks I've killed.

[blackveltbowhunter]

Nice Buck 3nails!

[Alaska316]

Nice Buck 3nails!

I second that... Thats a dandy.

[bonehead addict]

Huntin blackies before Oct 23 is just hikin. 90% of the blackies Ive killed have been shot between the 24th and the 30th, rain or shine. The rut typically starts around the 23rd, at least for the past 3-4 years it has. I am lucky to live in the middle of good blacktail country, my property holds doe's year round, then like a switch, bucks come out of nowhere. In the past 3 years Ive had no less than 10 different bucks chasing doe's across my place, and it always starts the last week of Oct. When I see these deer moving, thats my signal to hit the woods.(no I dont hunt on my property).

[nwhunter]

I am starting to get the itch to get after them blacktails too! This buck is from last year last day of general obviously rutting hard. nwhunter

[bobcat]

nwhunter,
 
Nice buck! Did you shoot him while he was tearing up those trees? You didn't ruin the backstrap did you?

[Arteman]

Man I love these blacktail threads, some nice bucks are poping up on here.  3nails, I've seen some of your bucks you have taken posted on other threads before, you defiantly know how to find the big ones.  I do all this from a phone and can't figure out how to post pics, I think I can only do it from a computer but don't have one.  Got some pics on it from last year of some nice bucks family and friends took from the same hole I would like to shar, all taken in the later part of early deer.  Only way maybe is if somebody else would post them, but its no biggy.  Keep the pics rolling guys, there's got to be more???

[bankwalker]

While I haven't been lucky enough to take a big blacktail. I have gotten a few shots on some big bucks. And i dont have any problem finding them. I have to agree the last 4 to 5 days of the early season is when the magic happens. I prefer the really windy days over really rainy days. I love go hunt the thickest nastiest terrain possible, and really wet days can be torture.

I think that is my biggest reason for not killing mature bucks. I never get mire then a glance...but young bucks will sit and watch me.

[3nails]

 Here's a pic of last years opening day blacktail. This was a perfect day for hunting up high. Cold and clear. He was with a smaller buck that wouldn't leave me alone after I got his buddy.

[3nails]

 Went back a few years to try and find another rainy day buck and found this pic. Like I said, a "few" years.

[840dc]

Awesome bucks guys!     3nails really knows how to get it done! Lets see if we can coax him into some more pics! I wanna see that wide 2.

[bucklucky]

OK, I guess I will post up a few blacktail pictures too. Most are rainy day bucks, I got more to post but cant find the pictures.

[CavemantheHunter]

A blacktail we dropped a few years back (when I say a few, probably a good 7 years ago). Late buck, rutting hard, trailing a few does.

[Huntbear]

I would say 90% of my blacktails have been shot in the nastiest weather you can be in... down in the bottoms of alder thickets full of devils club, ferns, blackberries and vine maple.  Usually at spitting distances, but out to about 75 yds. if things open up somewhere.

The rest have been in clearcuts, when it is ice cold frosty, and the bucks are prodding the does. 

I prefer the clearcuts at first light, then get into the timber/alder/biggest mess of brush you can find, during the daytime.

Good luck!

[CoyoteCowboy]

love this post. getting me all rutted up for the opener of mod.

a blackie i got last year over near hood canal. wet. windy. nasty. and the last week of october.

all fun and games till someone, or something, stole my rack!