Getting pretty pumped to spend some time pursuing the wily blacktail bucks in the rut in some beautiful country. Rattlin' and stalking.
This cabin will be our home base. Pretty deluxe compared to a tent!
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Go get 'em Dave!
Looks like a great place to spend a few days chasing deer.
Good Luck!
Dang, I'm jealous, Dave! I'll heading out in the morning to give it a shot myself! Good luck to you!
I was out hiking yesterday in our beautiful sunny weather and the Blacktails in Washington are rubbing and scraping very actively right now.
Good luck Snag, that looks like a great cabin.
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Hope you get close and personal with a buck Stan! I have some Red Feather "Phoenix" heads on some Surewood Shafts that will be accompanying me up into the woods. What a great broadhead! You've done your job well...now it's just up to me to put it to use.
Good luck Dave. Looks like a beautiful place.
good luck!
Hope you have a ton of fun. The place looks great.
Good luck snag ! Now put one of them purty arrows of yours thru Blackie's heart ! And yes..... we are very jealous judging from that pic. :banghead:
GOOD LUCK Snag and Straight Shooting :archer2:
ENJOY!!!...let us know how it goes.
Looks Like a great place to be right now.
Good Luck :campfire: :archer:
Real neat, looks like your high up in the Cascades. Great idea. I have fond memories of hunts in Blacktail country, and have seen some pretty amazing deer.
You lucky dog.
I sure miss thae late blacktail hunt in Oregon it used to be my favorite hunt.
I hunted the Molalla and Clackamas drainages for years.
Moved in 1996 and haven't been back to chase blacktails since.
I do get to hunt the late season for roosevelt elk where I am at though.
Good luck to you.
John
That cabin is too cool.
Good luck!
Good luck David! Looks like fun!
Dave,
Good luck and God bless!
Good luck and hope we get a good story out of this!
If this weekend doesn't pan out, I can always look for this guy next weekend :)
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Drop the string on a BIG-UN Snag!
Shoot straight, Shinken
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Wish I knew a place to hunt, just a little to the north of the late season units :banghead:
Wish you all Good Hunting
No OR tag for me this year, living vicariously thru you guys!
man he looks pretty
Nice one Stan! :thumbsup:
Sure would lke to see some scenery picks from you guys while hunting if you get a chance. I sure miss that country up there :D
Tracy
I will bringing my camera on this trip. Will post some more pics.
Stan, hope you meet up with that bruiser!
It'll be a fun trip because of the two guys I'm going with.
Steve H., nice of you to allow some of us the chance to bring one home......haha
Well got to go sharpen broadheads, pack, make meals, etc.
David >>>----->
I have to wait another week before I can let the air out of a buck, so I bide my time snooping for bucks with camera in hand. Here's a handsome fella my son and I rattled in a couple days ago.
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They've been pretty nocturnal yet in my area, but that should be changing soon. Short video of a "tailgater".
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I want that cabin!!!!!!!!
Good y'all!!!!!!
Brad
Good luck. Realy sounds like a blast. Wish we had a late hunt here.
Good lookin cabin Snag but I will be just as comfortable in a wall tent with a wood stove. 16 days and counting...PR
looking forward to a report, Oregon is just a few hours north of here,and our season has been over for a couple of months. I need learn where to hunt just over the border. Any of you Oregon folks know of any areas thats not your honey hole?
Just got back from a blacktail scouting trip and chantelle hunt up the Mckenzie, looks great can't wait, good luck Dave!
Get um Snag :)
How was the hunt Snag???
My season ended before it started (long story)so I am living through you, and all of the other Oregon guys on this site :thumbsup:
Good luck! :campfire: :coffee:
That's some great blacktails
Good Luck, snag!
Bisch
Well the cabin was pretty nice. Especially that barrel wood stove.
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Seems the Boy Scouts built some bunks too!
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This is the view from the front door.
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We put in some miles. But didn't see but a couple of bucks and a few does. I don't think prime time is on yet. No response to rattling and the bucks weren't trailing does. I'm just hoping that the cats haven't brought the deer population down to the "slim-pickens" level down there. Not having scouted the area like TK does up north it was a shot in the dark really. But one area of the state I had not hunted and wanted to. It was great spending time my friends out in that beautiful country.
Now that the season is open up in the northern units I'll try to find time to get out again. I talked with a guy last night that was up in the high country of the Cascades looking around. He said he thought around Thanksgiving would be prime time.
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I like this picture of my friends bow and quiver. Check out these rattlin' antlers!
Snag,
Thanks for the update.
It looks like you were down in my area. I live in Medford, and my friends at church have been seeing some.
I know of one gentleman at our church that rattled in a very nice buck last weekend, but the wind gave him away.
The deer are here, but not as numerous as they once were from what I understand (I moved down from the Corvallis area 5 years ago)
Keep at it brother and Happy Thanksgiving
Paul
Hi Paul,
I remember when you were in Corvallis and then moved south. We were east of you. Maybe the rut kits in at lower elevations...? We were at 4,000ft and higher.
Hey David, have fun. Any day hunting is all good. Great looking camp.
Snag , I hunted for years in a spot that looked just like that near Howard Prairie Off of Buck Prairie rd called Cottonwood Glades. At one time it was literally crawling with great bucks. There has been a tremendous couger kill here in Southern Oregon though in the last 15 years. At one time I could easily count 100 or more legal bucks and probably 20 or so big 4 points there. Now you are lucky to see one. I am talking about just driving around. Not getting out and walking. It sure is pretty and that adds a lot.
God bless, Steve
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Hi Paul,
I remember when you were in Corvallis and then moved south. We were east of you. Maybe the rut kits in at lower elevations...? We were at 4,000ft and higher.
Dave,
He was up around Prospect, but I do not know what the elevation he was at when he rattled that one in.
Like Steve said in the post above me the deer numbers are down from what they once were. I do know some areas around here, but Steve (a.k.a sixby) is the man in the know.
If you head to the Corvallis area let me know I have some sweet areas I can let you know about heading down :bigsmyl:
Thanks again for the update and I plan on ordering some arrows from you once Steve finishes my bow.
God bless and Happy Thanksgiving,
Paul
That looks nice David.
I got a bit of a late start on my scouting this year as I moved and don't know the area real well just yet. I have a few deer on camera but they are nocturnal photos.
There is no shortage of rubs and deer sign but they don't seem to be moving a whole lot in my area just yet.
I did have a couple busting through the reprod just out side of the timber that I was sitting on a stand, but I am thinking they were bumped or it was a buck chasing a doe. No visual, so I don't know.
I put 4 cameras in a new spot yesterday and will put 2 more cams out in the next couple of days. I am really waiting for the cold, cold weather. In my experience over the last 5 years hunting the late season, they start moving the best after four or five days of freezing weather.
The first and second week in December, I plan on having a few spots dialed and just sitting tree stands. It's gonna be cold, but the deer should be on their feet and looking for food.
Good luck to all you guys.
Paul
Steve, that was what I was afraid of when we didn't see much sign the first day. I really was hoping that it would be better than my usual hunting grounds up in the Willamette Valley. The cats have taken a mighty toll on the deer up here. I think all the deer that are left have gone down onto private ground to try and escape the cats.
any more reports from the late season up there in oregon?
This fork was in at 5:26 and I left that evening at 4:45:
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This is the "I should have sat all day buck" I got back in stand around 2:00 so I probably bumped this guy from under my stand on the way in:
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Yea this time of year its a all day sit. LOL You'll get him if ya keep after it. :pray:
I had a doe and her this years fawn in tonight at 3:45, so they are starting to move a little earlier and they were in at 7:50 a.m. as well.
I blew an opportunity yesterday on my evening hunt.
I blew another opportunity on the little buck pictured above this evening. I have named him Chance. Chance came in and actually startled me. I was breathing through my nose and when startled I kind of snorted and it made him real nervous. He left about a minute later. :banghead:
It was a fun hunt tonight and I am just tickled to be having action and opportunity. This year is shaping up to be a good one.
I just need one more chance at Chance. :pray:
what are you sitting on there Paul, is it a well used trail- or a natural funnel or some prefferred food source- curious- and just trying to glean as much info to help me with these alaskan blacktails up here on the charlottes
wayne
Fujimo,
I am set up in a tree stand on the very edge of a patch of reprod where the timber meets the reprod. The deer basically live in this reprod patch. It has food and thermal cover.
I set out a bunch of apples starting about a week before the season.
Blacktails DO NOT typically use the same trails and bedding areas on a daily basis in this area anyway, so it takes the deer awhile to find the apples.
Once the deer find the apples and accept apples as a food source, you can start to at least get a bit of a feed pattern established.
Good luck,
Paul
yup, same problem here. real hard to pattern them- thick bush. one has to do tons of bushwacking to find secret little meadows- then the trails leading to them , then i set up ambushes on the trails.
are apples the no.1 preferred " alternate" food source for your deer down there. do folk down there use grain etc.
we cant bait up here- but am really curious.
sorry mate, what do you call "reprod"
thanks
wayne
Fujimo, reprod is short for reproduction of trees. Reprod is the trees that were re-planted after a clear cut.
Apples are best. Some guys have success using alfalfa.
Corn is a no no as the BLACKTAIL deer cannot digest it and it can actually kill them. That is according to actual scientific data. I just use apples.
Are you sure you can't bait deer? They bait deer in Eastern Canada. I know you can't bait bears.
I did a few searches and from what I found it is LEGAL to bait in BC for deer, elk, moose.
hey paul,i wish you could have gotten your hands on that forked horn...john
well, thanks so much for the info- geuss i just made the hasty, and faulty assumption when i was reading about baiting- that it was just baiting in general- i need to reread that section of the regs again.
thanks for the clarification on the abbreviation.
interresting info on the corn and the blacktail- i wonder why just the blacktail, and not the mulies and other dear- i know on the deer farms with all the different species, they feed corn- would love to hear more.
thanks so much
wayne
Goog luck!
QuoteOriginally posted by fujimo:
well, thanks so much for the info- geuss i just made the hasty, and faulty assumption when i was reading about baiting- that it was just baiting in general- i need to reread that section of the regs again.
thanks for the clarification on the abbreviation.
interresting info on the corn and the blacktail- i wonder why just the blacktail, and not the mulies and other dear- i know on the deer farms with all the different species, they feed corn- would love to hear more.
thanks so much
wayne
Corn is not part of a blacktail's natural diet.
Whitetails on the other hand have not problem consuming corn. I don't know the exact science, but Oregon Dept. of Fish and Game did autopsy reports on blacktailed deer that had been feed corn and keeled over and died from it.
They died with full bellies of corn because they could not digest it.
I think in small doses it would be a good attractant, but it would not be good as a large cosumable bait.
I think if a guy used a pound of cracked corn in an area with apples and alfalfa, it would be okay. You just don't want the deer to eat corn until it is full. That is just a guess.
Apples were great when I lived on the coast in Oregon, better yet were the over ripe pears. Good luck.
thanks fella's
Good luck! :campfire: :coffee:
I am some what envious, looks like a great base camp. i have lost my season due to a back injury.
Best of luck!
Final weekend kids, time to kill a deer or eat hot dogs this winter!
Apples are great by my house, they can't resist them! I've hauled apples up into the Cascades though and have had deer walk right through them without so much as slowing down. They never see fruit up there and don't associate apples as a food source I guess? Bears and elk will eat them though!
This little blacktail fell to my doug fir arrow the day before Thanksgiving, very thankful that week!
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Nice buck, congrats.
Great Buck Ron