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Offline JakeLand

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #120 on: November 06, 2021, 08:42:22 PM »
Yup.  Decent alright.  Split main beam on the left?
yes split Drivers side , cmon muzzy season as he’s on our property daily

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #121 on: November 06, 2021, 09:30:45 PM »
Now that I think back, I'm not sure that I even saw any doe that appeared hot this season.  It certainly seems like the rut clock is a bit behind schedule... :dunno:

I also hunted Mason the full two weeks of Modern with cams up still for Late season and have yet to see a hot doe. Got my fingers crossed I can tag one of the two bucks I have on camera cruising through.
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #122 on: November 07, 2021, 11:46:35 PM »
Checked my apple tree cams today.  Doe still wandering around with kids.  Five different bucks through the back yard in the middle of suburbia, all seem to be just scent checking and eating an apple or two.  No daylight activity at all.  I think it's going to explode in the next four or five days and bucks will be running to and fro.
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #123 on: November 08, 2021, 06:26:12 AM »
We have a spot 1/4 mile from my house that always holds deer in an old orchard. The kids and I drive there frequently to watch deer, I use this spot as my bellwether. We have seen several does accompanied by younger bucks the last week. Normally we’d see a mature buck at this time, things should be popping off soon. In 2013 I had a quality blacktail tag, we didn’t get into heavy rutting activity until the 10th of November that year.

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #124 on: November 09, 2021, 01:33:25 AM »
We have a spot 1/4 mile from my house that always holds deer in an old orchard. The kids and I drive there frequently to watch deer, I use this spot as my bellwether. We have seen several does accompanied by younger bucks the last week. Normally we’d see a mature buck at this time, things should be popping off soon. In 2013 I had a quality blacktail tag, we didn’t get into heavy rutting activity until the 10th of November that year.

Agreed.  Down here, there's typically only one day per year when the big bucks are out walking around in broad daylight - somewhere close to 12 November.  How the doe all (or nearly all) end up being fertile at the same time each year has year always amazed me.. Estrus is said to be driven by photoperiod.  When I Google sunrise/sunset times for each day in Nov.,the days are shortening by 2 minutes per day, one minute later sunrise in the am. and one minute later in the evening.  Moon phases change in relation to date each year yet the overall population of doe estrus eriods converge in the next few days.   
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #125 on: November 09, 2021, 06:51:43 PM »
I got to watch it all play out from the window by my desk today. Out in one of the orchards there were two bucks, two does and two fawns in constant motion. Posturing, chasing and fighting. In the end both bucks left with a doe. In the last three days I've had six different bucks on the orchard camera but all the action has been after dark, today it was in broad daylight. The trail camera caught some of the action.
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #126 on: November 09, 2021, 06:53:47 PM »
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #127 on: November 09, 2021, 07:59:31 PM »
Great pics twisp!

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #128 on: November 09, 2021, 08:38:58 PM »
Woodland, Washington
Last Friday, Nov. 5th.
Rutting hard

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #129 on: November 09, 2021, 08:50:48 PM »
After dark action
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #130 on: November 09, 2021, 10:01:56 PM »
 Found this guy hanging out with a doe in a pocket out of the wind 11/5/2021 think she was just starting to give the scent as she wasnt to interested with him, but he was keeping her in site.....

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #131 on: November 09, 2021, 10:32:58 PM »
Great buck Elkoholic1!  I love the color of his rack.  He's a great buck to end a season on.  Congratulations!
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #132 on: November 09, 2021, 11:11:46 PM »
Great buck Elkoholic1!  I love the color of his rack.  He's a great buck to end a season on.  Congratulations!

  THANKS...  I'm definitely happy with him...

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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #133 on: November 10, 2021, 08:52:50 AM »
Sweet looking blacktail, Elkholic1!
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Re: Blacktail Rut Thread - Post updates here
« Reply #134 on: November 10, 2021, 09:11:05 AM »
What a looker elkoholic! Congratz!!

 


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