collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut and post rut thread  (Read 65036 times)

Offline hunthard

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2016
  • Posts: 596
  • Location: western wa
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #105 on: October 27, 2020, 08:15:11 PM »
Sounds like the spot to be, a buck will show i promise you that.

Offline highside74

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+11)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2009
  • Posts: 5234
  • Location: Eatonville wa
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #106 on: October 27, 2020, 09:05:52 PM »
The deer in where I am hunting at the moment are spending all day in the reprod.

Offline WSU

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 5502
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #107 on: October 27, 2020, 09:37:34 PM »
My friend killed a 3 point yesterday after work. Glands were wet and stinky.

Offline fishnfur

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2014
  • Posts: 3805
  • Location: longview
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #108 on: October 27, 2020, 10:59:32 PM »
What kind of sound do bucks make when they are fighting in the woods? Is it distinct?

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”  - Will Rogers

Offline spin05

  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2007
  • Posts: 1255
  • Location: Camano Island
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #109 on: October 27, 2020, 11:00:26 PM »
Just had a 3 point buck walking down the middle of the road to my house today in middle of the day. There getting dumber as the days go by

Offline fishnfur

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2014
  • Posts: 3805
  • Location: longview
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #110 on: October 28, 2020, 09:05:19 PM »
Hunted both Kitsap and Mason today.   Saw one doe, each with a kid in tow in each spot.  No shots all day until 1:45 PM when it sounded like 2 or three hunters found a buck
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”  - Will Rogers

Offline TheStovePipeKid

  • They call me MISTER KID!
  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2013
  • Posts: 755
  • Location: Lakebay, Wa
  • I. Kill. Turkey.
    • TheStovePipeKid
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #111 on: October 28, 2020, 10:21:42 PM »
No sighting or pictures since Monday. I'm seeing more hunters than game, plus predetors pushing the deer.
I laugh in the face of Danger. Ha ha ha Danger Face!

Offline fishnfur

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2014
  • Posts: 3805
  • Location: longview
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #112 on: October 29, 2020, 08:32:17 PM »
I've heard three, maybe four shots in the last two days. Maybe fifteen or so for the entire season so far. Crazy slow. Hunted Kitsap and Mason yesterday.  Saw two doe total, each with fawns close.  Absolutely nothing in a five hour sit in an elevated blind.  Moved and didn't see another deer till I jumped one on an edge, when I lifted my binocs to glass.  I'm sure I had been busted prior to that, but the movement ended the encounter.

Good sized fresh rub where I got busted too.
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”  - Will Rogers

Offline fishngamereaper

  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 8784
  • Location: kitsap
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #113 on: October 29, 2020, 08:35:39 PM »
Residential deer are following pretty good right now. Seems the public land timber deer didn't get the message. Par for the course for Kitsap/ Mason. Full moon is not going to help.  Need some weather to move in.

Offline WapitiTalk1

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+9)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 7914
  • Location: Wet Side, Rainier, WA
  • Groups: RMEF, NRA, US Army (R)
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #114 on: October 29, 2020, 08:39:12 PM »
Odd year in my area. Took a day off work and did a full day in the deer woods (in before daylight/out after dark). Saw a hand full of does/fawns, zero bucks. Oh they’ve been around, just not not around today.
Darton Archery Maverick II
Traditions Vortek StrikeFire Smoke Pole
Weatherby VG-2 Boomstick
"Poking at a campfire with a stick is one of life's great satisfactions." Patrick F. McManus

Offline fishnfur

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2014
  • Posts: 3805
  • Location: longview
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #115 on: October 29, 2020, 09:45:38 PM »
This weather is becoming the norm I'm afraid.  Warm weather near sixty degrees keeps them low and slow.  All the action happens at night.  The doe don't seem to be popping yet either.  It seems like it is just a waiting game now till mother nature forces the issue.
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”  - Will Rogers

Offline IFunk

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Mar 2019
  • Posts: 121
  • Location: Seattle
  • Groups: BHA, TBOW
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #116 on: October 30, 2020, 10:23:25 PM »
No doubt! I did 2.5 days this week in 3 different westside units(420, 663 and 667) and haven’t even seen any deer since the 18th(2 does).  I’m beginning to doubt their existence.  Seen lots of sign but no bodies.  Still dreaming of my first Blacktail...

Offline h20hunter

  • Trade Count: (+16)
  • Legend
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jan 2010
  • Posts: 20872
  • Location: Lake Stevens
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #117 on: October 30, 2020, 11:01:06 PM »
Only saw one deer out, got lucky he was young and dumb. I know of one member local to me that dropped a littke 2x2 today.

Offline grousetracker

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2009
  • Posts: 534
  • Location: centralia
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #118 on: October 31, 2020, 06:40:02 AM »
saw 18 does in the rich peoples lawns on thursday no bucks, Galvin last night 7 does 1 2pt and the does wanted no part of him. moon phase is just terrible.

Offline fishngamereaper

  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 8784
  • Location: kitsap
Re: 2020 Blacktail rut/pre-rut thread
« Reply #119 on: October 31, 2020, 06:42:47 AM »
On a good note weather and moon get better next week for my kids any deer tag...

See, there's a positive in everything. :chuckle:

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Looking for Solid 22 LR input by EnglishSetter
[Today at 03:13:54 PM]


WSTA 2025 Summer Rendezvous Agenda by Humptulips
[Today at 03:09:35 PM]


Fullsized Truck Opinion: HiMiNew vs LoMiOlder by rainshadow1
[Today at 03:01:42 PM]


2025 Montana alternate list by JBar
[Today at 02:20:40 PM]


Rotator Cuff repair X 2 advice needed by Wood2Sawdust
[Today at 01:36:26 PM]


Rock creek gone? Next? by JBar
[Today at 01:00:56 PM]


AUCTION: SE Idaho DIY Deer or Deer/Elk Hunt by teanawayslayer
[Today at 12:45:43 PM]


Archery elk gear, 2025. by pcveen
[Today at 09:35:38 AM]


2025 Canning by blackpowderhunter
[Today at 07:19:25 AM]


Lynx kittens confirmed in the Kettle Range by dwils233
[Today at 12:04:14 AM]


How To Get Your $0.00 Tax Stamp - Black Hammer Arms by dreadi
[Yesterday at 11:33:25 PM]


Seeking recommendations on a new scope by Klickitatsteelie
[Yesterday at 09:23:56 PM]


First attempt at polish sausages by Stein
[Yesterday at 07:58:22 PM]


Sockeye Numbers by Southpole
[Yesterday at 07:44:30 PM]


Best all around muzzy (updated) by jjhunter
[Yesterday at 07:44:26 PM]


38% increase in fishing and hunting licenses by Sitka_Blacktail
[Yesterday at 07:02:41 PM]


50 inch SXS and Tracks? by 92xj
[Yesterday at 05:34:03 PM]


3 days for Kings by MADMAX
[Yesterday at 05:06:49 PM]


Full moon and last week of September by pd
[Yesterday at 04:51:23 PM]


Hunting bears in the thick stuff by ghosthunter
[Yesterday at 04:33:46 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal