October blacktails

[teamhughes2007]

Awesome Thread!  I cannot wait to get out into the woods in just two days!  Helped a buddy of mine get his buck a few years back.  Hunting late October, rained the night before but cleared up as the morning went on.  We were both hunting the brush, but I bailed out because it was just too wet.  Hiked out to a clear cut and spotted 7 does...and sure enough a buck was tailing them a few hundred yards behind.  Decided to run back down the trail to fish my friend out of the brush so he could take a shot.  Got him back to the clear cut.  The buck busted us and started to take off but my buddy got a shot off and knocked him down.  I have been blanked on blacktails since then and am kicking myself for passing up the shot....but it was totally worth it to see my buddy's excitement (first ever buck with 8 years of hunting).

[Dmanmastertracker]

 BLR, you'd make Boyd Iverson jealous, holy cow.

 My best blackie from 2007.

[hawksfan75]

This thread may have convinced me to stay on the wet side instead of making the trip over to 117... Some nice looking animals. 

[Huntboy]

Great thread, gentlemen.

[DeKuma]

Our 2009 Blacktail

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[jackmaster]

dekuma just out of curiosity did you shoot that buck from a rd, did you have the green river tag, something about that photo looks familar, oh and by the way dude that is a stud blackie, holy smokes, i need to whack one like that gotton close but they just aint even close to as big as that 

[kglacken]

This thread is great! keep the bucks coming! If you guys kill them this year just keep adding them! hopefully I have one to add this year too!  Only two sleeps away

[deerslyr]

October Blacktails

If this is the buck im thinking of that you posted on BTC a few years back you gotta post a better pic of him to show everybody how big the body on that sucker was!

[Archer45]

Don't count out the middle of the day re-situation!! Deer especially big bucks are bedded on dry days within about a half hour after daylight! But they can't lay all day! I have gotten a few blacktail in the middle of the day just moving from one bed stretching to another! They are not up long but they will move!! So my advice would find a nice timber to clear cut hole and be patient!! Good luck out there!!

[Arteman]

 

Don't count out the middle of the day re-situation!! Deer especially big bucks are bedded on dry days within about a half hour after daylight! But they can't lay all day! I have gotten a few blacktail in the middle of the day just moving from one bed stretching to another! They are not up long but they will move!! So my advice would find a nice timber to clear cut hole and be patient!! Good luck out there!!

I've watched hillsides with small jacks on it and was convinced I had it picked over only to have it come alive, its like they live in holes or something and are all on the same clock.

[DoubleJ]

Here's a nice September buck.  Shot at last light on a clear, 75 degree evening 
 

[DoubleJ]

I hunt meat so, I'm not real big on pictures.  This is the only one I have.
 
My dad asked if the neighbor was going to miss his dog after I glued antlers to it and stuck it in my fridge 

[oneshotkill]

Don't count out the middle of the day re-situation!! Deer especially big bucks are bedded on dry days within about a half hour after daylight! But they can't lay all day! I have gotten a few blacktail in the middle of the day just moving from one bed stretching to another! They are not up long but they will move!! So my advice would find a nice timber to clear cut hole and be patient!! Good luck out there!!

Ditto!  I have killed 4 blacktail bucks and three of them where at the middle of the day when I figured all the deer would be bedded and I would have not chance.  That is when all of a sudden out of nowhere a buck appears.  DEFINITELY hunt the middle of the day.

[Dmanmastertracker]

Don't count out the middle of the day re-situation!! Deer especially big bucks are bedded on dry days within about a half hour after daylight! But they can't lay all day! I have gotten a few blacktail in the middle of the day just moving from one bed stretching to another! They are not up long but they will move!! So my advice would find a nice timber to clear cut hole and be patient!! Good luck out there!!

Ditto!  I have killed 4 blacktail bucks and three of them where at the middle of the day when I figured all the deer would be bedded and I would have not chance.  That is when all of a sudden out of nowhere a buck appears.  DEFINITELY hunt the middle of the day.

 Why I don't mind sleeping in .

[DeKuma]

dekuma just out of curiosity did you shoot that buck from a rd, did you have the green river tag, something about that photo looks familar, oh and by the way dude that is a stud blackie, holy smokes, i need to whack one like that gotton close but they just aint even close to as big as that 

We did shoot this buck near a road, but he tumbled down the rock chute and landed about 10 yards from another road.  It was near Stevens Pass area October 30th.