im new to hunting blacktail and need some help anybody have any tips in hunting near sweethome oregon i need all the help i can get
thanx paul

Look for 5 to 10 year old reprod stands. Tree stands that look down into them or a vantage point work well for seeing bucks in the thick stuff. The archery rut hunt is great. I like to put a tree stand up near oak or alder with a transition into an old clearcut. Try rattling and doe bleats like the can. Other than that wear waterproof clothing and stay away from leaves of three(poison oak). Blacktails are like nothing else out there and very hard to hunt. In the early season you can pattern them on ag fields but when it comes to timber it take years of hunting them to get any good.

My dad and I usually hunt like this. Hike, find a good place to rattle for 30 min or so. Hike, find a new place to rattle for 30 min or so. Repeat. My dad has gotten a deer pretty much every year for the past 15 years using this method. We also hunt using tree stands, but that is a relatively new method for us, saying this is our first year with tree stands. Seamed like a good way. We put the stands up on hot trails a few weeks before the season. We have had several animals under the stands just from waiting, and a few from rattling/grunting. My dads 5x6 from this year was taken on the ground after sitting in the stands for 2 hours. I spotted the buck, but it was not coming into our rattling. It walked away. We waited about 40 min, than went after it in the direction it left. We set up and rattled. nothing, rattled again. Heard movement. Grunted one time, and it came in to 10 yards at a full run, and stopped quartering away. Dad got it!

We have never used a bleat.

We have also noticed, that with blacktail, it seams that you need to be right in a bucks territory to be most successful. That is why we think the 5x6 would not come in to our initial rattle, because we were not quite in his territory. So when we moved closer to his place, and rattled again we got him. Not always true though. We have had animals come from as far as we could hear breaking branches on the move towards us.

i hunt near there and i've always had good luck in the old tall timber find a old logging skid trail and walk it very slowly and second season drag some deer urin behind you on a scent wick and on your way back you might run into some thing. thats what i do and i've got a buck the last 4 years.good luck and i might see ya out there

hey i live just over the hill for you in lebanon, the methed i use for hunting blacktails is to get somewhere early in the morning where you can see open unit and some open second growth to the side, usally the deer with come out of that second growth to feed, but it does depend on the time they are feeding. you might catch them there in the morning or you might catch them there in the evening. or if your up for a big hunt walk into the second growth from the back and try to push the deer into the open unit. best of luck to you.

so im bow hunting when do these blacktail come into the rut i thought shoud be around the middel of oct but i dont see much behavor change yet

they should be starten to rut any time now if not already

Will it still be going on in 2-3 weeks?

cascademountainhunter is right they should be starting soon, watch for a big weather change, like if it freezes or gets really cold, even a big thunder storm could get these bucks into the rut. also just watch the deer you will know when they start to rut. best of luck to you, go kill a monster

Ok we have had snow done to about 2500feet so that would get them going?

• They are going already and will be until the end of the late archery season.
• My friend and I have already rattled in and killed two bucks on a controlled tag.
• Mine came in super fast twice, I passed on him the first time he came in as he was just a forkie but decided he was a mature buck and I should take him the second time around.
• Mature Forked Horn Buck
• Shane's 3pt

thanx for the in put and bolth nice bucks congrats

Those are nice lookin bucks mind if i asked where you shot them?

Nice three point and a big body on the forkie. I shot several mature forkies in Wa. Just bad genetics.

Hey I grew up hunting in sweet home
I live just next door in lebanon now but still mostly hunt in sweet home
I have found that calling works better than most people think for blacktails whether its rattling grunting or bleeting. The first step though is to find an area where you know there is alot of deer activity and I think the biggest key is patcience. Dont over call because if your constantly calling they'll have you peged before you know their there. Just really be attentive they'll show up all of a sudden. I've called in blacktails the last few years rattling bleeting and grunting and the four point I got last year My brother set up behind me almost like we do calling elk and he was rattling. After only thirty secondsd of rattling the buck surfaced on the hill above us. I brought the buck the rest of the way with a burp. Yea thats what I said a burp I forgot my grunt and I was showing the other guy with us what a grunt sounded like and my brother saw the whole thing. He said the buck had him pegged so he stoped rattling but as soon as I let out my "BURP" grunt he said the buck turned my direction and came a runnin my arrow found its mark at 10yds the guy with me (that had never hunted and was just along for the ride) was 4 yds from it when I shot it. If you do your scouting be persistent and patient and practice your burping!!!! lol you'll have a good chance good luck maybe we'll see you out there.



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