Tips for WA state blacktail hunts?

[vishnevian]

Never hunter black tails before as a Western WA resident. The open hills of Eastern WA always seemed to have made sense to me as far as being able to glass up a deer and stalk. I have NO idea how one even approaches hunting in the thick timber of Western WA. Do you just find a small open patch and sit? Still hunting deep woods??? Thanks

 

[Hoodie]

Learn to enjoy being in the woods.

Spend as much as time as possible in the woods. Find one to three areas that hold deer. Ignore all other areas. Shed hunt religiously. Learn where bucks like to live and where does like to live. Shed hunting can help with this. Map the ares where the does live. Find the trails that connect these doe areas. Find the very few places along these trails where the topography or cover force the deer to move through a very small, very specific area.

Eventually, after a lot of walking you will come upon a spot where you are absolutely certain a buck will step sometime in late October or November. Find a clean way to access that area undetected. Sit there until tag filled.