Blacktails in timber

[longrangelead]

The buck I want next year. Spotted two years in a row in the same patch of OG while elk hunting. Placed four cameras in the area so hopefully I get more pics.View attachment 836409

you know where he is! go sneak in on him!

 

[longrangelead]

Great thread and awesome write up. I love Hunting blacktails. I just need to get better at it . I grew up listening to the old timers tell me if I want to kill good bucks I need to hunt just like you describe. I hunt them in SW Washington too, but near the coast. So no old growth or snow. But we have some large stands of second growth that should do. Hunting the timber for elk is when I see most of my big bucks. Go figure.

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big second growth is just as good when it's right.

 

[orelkaddict]

Some great information in this thread! I will add that if you have a good timber hoggs-back between units it will usually be a travel highway. The 1 piece of advice I give to new hunters is to "get out of your own way". Slow down and really take in what's around you. My youngest son spent days trying to take his first buck in a unit, I finally convinced him to go hunt the old school way on a timber ridge. Extremely slow going, an hour later he shot his first buck at 17 yards!!! Now he loves it!! We had looked at the exact spot and nothing there, we took 2 steps and looked again, there he was already watching us. They don't call them the grey ghost for nothing!!