Post by: shanevg on October 24, 2013, 08:04:07 PM
I decided to head back in after work and see if I could get lucky. This time I took some blacktail doe in heat urine to spray around in the clear cut. As I'm working my way slowly through the clearcut spraying the urine, I see the top of a 12 foot sapling over a rise swaying back and forth as a buck thrashed the base of it. For the next 25 minutes I slowly worked my way towards the trees and watched them swaying side to side as they were thrashed, sometimes they were literally bent all the way over to the ground then they would pop back up and start swaying all over the place again. I kept thinking he would step out into the clear cut eventually but he just kept thrashing so I kept getting closer. Eventually the thrashing stopped but I could still hear him every once in a while moving around. I kept moving closer but he was on the edge of the clear cut in some really thick brush and it was starting to get dark. At 25 yards I hear a snort and brush crashing as he takes off into the darker timber. I never once saw him but he held up again at about 100 yards and kept thrashing trees, snorting, stomping and making noise. I grunted at him a few times but he wouldn't step out into the open. Finally he busted out of there and within seconds a second deer comes crashing through the timber about 100 yards away. He started thrashing a tree and snorting at me but he also would not come out into the open. I eventually left as it was too dark to see even 100 yards and I could still hear one of the bucks thrashing a tree in the timber. I was within 25 yards of one buck and probably 50-100 yards of the second and never saw either of them!
I'm definitely heading back in tomorrow. Hopefully an entire bottle of doe in heat urine sprayed throughout the clear cut will pull them out into the open in the morning. I'm also taking my rattling antlers and if nothing is moving all see if I can rattle them out into the open.
This is really my first ever experience hunting the blacktail rut. I'm open to any other advice anyone has!
Post by: akirkland on October 24, 2013, 08:29:04 PM
Post by: Houndhunter on October 24, 2013, 08:36:17 PM
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Post by: Stump on October 24, 2013, 08:55:45 PM
Post by: Smith_22 on October 24, 2013, 09:35:20 PM
Post by: 3nails on October 24, 2013, 09:40:23 PM
Post by: wildweeds on October 24, 2013, 09:50:13 PM
Hoping for a success text tomorrow! You'll know if I put one down.
Post by: PolarBear on October 24, 2013, 10:06:02 PM
Post by: RB on October 24, 2013, 10:38:24 PM
Post by: beav1980 on October 25, 2013, 11:30:07 AM
Post by: FLIZZ on October 25, 2013, 12:55:55 PM
Bring lots of patience with you. Im totally frustrated with the deer right meow.:yeah: This has been my worst season in awhile, on average I see two deer per outing, sitting, bustin brush, Boyd'n it at a snails pace. You name I've done it with marginal success, the most frustrating part is the amount of sign I'm seeing... SO MUCH SIGN.
Post by: sirmissalot on October 25, 2013, 12:56:29 PM
Some friends of mine saw three separate bucks this morning, all of them had their noses on the ground and on the move.
Post by: klikboom on October 25, 2013, 01:01:29 PM
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on October 25, 2013, 01:06:40 PM
Post by: Craig on October 25, 2013, 02:32:29 PM
Post by: N7XW on October 25, 2013, 03:12:30 PM
I have 2 canyons I hunt.....one canyon there's bucks every time I go there and the other has tons of does and not the bucks I usually see...but I've seen well over 150 deer and 11 bucks....lots of repeat deer but I'm seeing them all the time
Need a hunting partner? :chuckle: My luck has been pretty bad this year, only have seen a few does and one tiny spike :bash: Guess I need some new areas :dunno:
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on October 25, 2013, 03:39:25 PM
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on October 25, 2013, 04:13:32 PM
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi799.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fyy275%2Fdeerhunter_98520%2FIMG_20131025_160601_475_zps82f417a2.jpg&hash=90f6774467424495976427c64c2b1bcaac5a5e97)
Post by: MuleySniper on October 25, 2013, 05:25:42 PM
MS
Post by: Elliott on October 25, 2013, 05:26:50 PM
This is what I'm watching right now....hard to see and if you don't glass much you would never see her...some of you might not see her in the pic :chuckle:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi799.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fyy275%2Fdeerhunter_98520%2FIMG_20131025_160601_475_zps82f417a2.jpg&hash=90f6774467424495976427c64c2b1bcaac5a5e97)
Base of the right tree, just below the blue tape knot on the left?
Post by: Stump on October 25, 2013, 06:36:34 PM
Post by: PolarBear on October 25, 2013, 06:56:14 PM
Post by: throttlejocky20 on October 25, 2013, 08:23:16 PM
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on October 25, 2013, 09:19:03 PM
Post by: X-Force on October 25, 2013, 09:29:49 PM
Unimpressed...... You should be at 6000' hunting the high country blacktail..... Even if you do have work, thats no excuse :chuckle::chuckle: I have to agree
Post by: PolarBear on October 25, 2013, 10:17:23 PM
Rattling works as well as the primos can I have called in 3 Bt bucks with the can I will be using mine in the morning. Good Luck.I have also had good luck with the Pimos "can"
While I rattle my daughter works the "can" and the grunt tube. Sometimes she does the rattling. She has had a set of rattling antlers and has known how to use them since she was 2 years old. Sunday, I might just sit back and spot for her while she does all of her own calling.
Post by: esteban on October 26, 2013, 10:43:05 AM
quit this garbage.