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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #255 on: November 13, 2018, 03:34:23 PM »
nice rub that I found
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #256 on: November 13, 2018, 03:48:54 PM »
trail cam pics less then 100 yards away. :)
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #257 on: November 13, 2018, 07:57:54 PM »
Nice pics.  I'm thinkin' it was the dude with the eyeguards that thrashed that tree, not the little forkie.  There might even be a bigger one hiding around there.  That's a pretty good rub - though it's difficult to tell the size of the tree.  Go get 'em!
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #258 on: November 13, 2018, 08:03:48 PM »
I've been hunting blacktail deer a long time and I rarely if ever see as many deer during the rut as I do in the months prior, I do see more bucks but overall deer numbers are almost always less. 

Does are getting followed around by hormone fueled bucks of all sizes, they get a lot more skittish and seem to be on the move more often than not.  In my experience your chances of seeing deer may go down but your chances of a buck being among those deer go up.  This weather doesn't help much either.

If you want to get a good idea of the deer numbers in a particular area get out there on a rainy September day, that's when I usually see the most.

I think you're right on there on all counts.  The does seem frazzled after the chase has been on for a while.  Both they and their kids can go berserk at the slightest little noise or movement at times, once the rut has started.
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #259 on: November 13, 2018, 08:28:30 PM »
Nice pics.  I'm thinkin' it was the dude with the eyeguards that thrashed that tree, not the little forkie.  There might even be a bigger one hiding around there.  That's a pretty good rub - though it's difficult to tell the size of the tree.  Go get 'em!
The rub is about two feet from bottom to top ;)
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #260 on: November 14, 2018, 03:15:12 PM »
It has been the slowest fall I've seen under my apple trees since I started putting out cams in 2011.  I quit checking my back yard cams on the 11th, since in all previous years, the last buck I'd ever caught was on Nov. 12th, and the majority occur between 8 - 11 Nov.  The last buck I captured in the yard was on 28 October - a young three-point that I posted then.  Normally there'd be does coming and going throughout the rut, but this year nothing!  Three cams out there all working one little area where they all seem to hang out.  Nothing!

Just for chuckles, I pulled a card today and saw that a young (maybe just 1.5 year old) and small 3 X 2 hopped through the yard just after I last checked the card last Sunday.  He probably came and went within a 10 second period.  He's showing good promise to be a masher if he survives the local town traffic.  Nice double throat patch too.
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #261 on: November 14, 2018, 03:26:54 PM »
I go a little deeper in the videos and find this dude had been out in the yard just this morning.  Another drive-by buck, only this guy is just a bit better  :chuckle:.  I'm not sure if I've seen him before.  He looks 3.5 year old, maybe 4 and a half.  He's looking to be a stud when he gets a few more years on him.  He's got one hell of a swagger when he walks.  He's obviously looking for does.  He ate one apple then was on his way again.  The last photo is the only other 4 point that has been in the yard, and that was last year.  I'm wondering if is the same buck.  Pretty impossible to tell. 

Based upon this recent late seeking activity, I'm thinking the upcoming Late Buck season may be a really good one down here.  Time will tell...
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #262 on: November 14, 2018, 03:34:14 PM »
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #263 on: November 14, 2018, 05:24:32 PM »
I go a little deeper in the videos and find this dude had been out in the yard just this morning.  Another drive-by buck, only this guy is just a bit better  :chuckle:.  I'm not sure if I've seen him before.  He looks 3.5 year old, maybe 4 and a half.  He's looking to be a stud when he gets a few more years on him.  He's got one hell of a swagger when he walks.  He's obviously looking for does.  He ate one apple then was on his way again.  The last photo is the only other 4 point that has been in the yard, and that was last year.  I'm wondering if is the same buck.  Pretty impossible to tell. 

Based upon this recent late seeking activity, I'm thinking the upcoming Late Buck season may be a really good one down here.  Time will tell...

That looks just like our buck on cam  :o
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #264 on: November 14, 2018, 06:40:00 PM »
He's way better than your buck PredatorG!   :chuckle:   Actually, if I remember correctly, your buck has lots of mass.
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #265 on: November 15, 2018, 12:14:52 PM »
I couldn't resist....

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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #266 on: November 15, 2018, 07:20:02 PM »
I hunted in a T-shirt today. This weather is BS!!!!!

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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #267 on: November 16, 2018, 08:36:33 AM »
I had an old bottle of MJ's Doe in Estrus laying around from a couple years ago, so just for giggles, I hunt a wick in the yard yesterday in front of the cams (hanging in the central small pear tree).  Though there hasn't been a doe in the yard for two weeks, this young three did a couple laps around the apple trees this morning and smelled around the base of the pear tree.  Not wildly successful, but the urine did seem to work a bit.

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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #268 on: November 22, 2018, 09:26:11 PM »
ttt - A little CPR and cardioversion - I'm just not ready for this thread to die quite yet.  :'(
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Re: blacktail deer pre-rut
« Reply #269 on: November 22, 2018, 10:00:14 PM »
I watched a 6x4 blackie chasing a doe all around a yard today.  I got within 10 feet of him.   :tup:

 


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