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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Phantom Gobbler on November 07, 2010, 09:10:34 PM

Title: Blacktail Rut
Post by: Phantom Gobbler on November 07, 2010, 09:10:34 PM: 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?
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: Hillbilly270 on November 07, 2010, 09:13:36 PM: been rutting for over a week here on the coast.
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: Taznatrz on November 07, 2010, 09:20:01 PM: Quote from: Hillbilly270 on November 07, 2010, 09:13:36 PM
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.... >:( :bash:

this has to be the weirdest year i can ever remember
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: PolarBear on November 07, 2010, 09:41:45 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: Taznatrz on November 08, 2010, 07:20:59 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on November 07, 2010, 09:41:45 PM
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 :bash: :bash: :bash:
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: backyard bucks on November 08, 2010, 07:26:53 PM: 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 :bash:
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: SemperFidelis97 on November 08, 2010, 07:38:03 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: pods8 on November 09, 2010, 07:22:47 AM: ~~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.
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: PolarBear on November 09, 2010, 08:44:58 AM: I'm watching a little forked horn buck push a yearling doe around my yard right now.
Title: Re: Blacktail Rut
Post by: longknife on November 09, 2010, 09:01:54 AM: The islands hunting regs are shotgun, pistol, archery, muzzeloader, and just passed crossbows. any deer