Late rifle Blacktail hunt western Washington / final day 2024

[@avance1656]

A couple things come to mind here, I'm no expert but myself and my kids usually kill blacktails every season. Are you wet with your rain gear on because the rain gear is failing or because you are sweating inside of the rain gear? In the pouring rain like that, it is really hard to stay dry, even with the best rain gear out there. If you are still hunting in the brush, the brush will push the water in it seems. I still hunt a lot in the pouring rain, make sure I am wearing wool that is still warm if it gets wet and I just get wet and know that is part of it. The other option is to find a good 3 to 5 year old clearcut, pitch a tarp to be under, and glass all day. During the latter part of general season and then in the 4 day late season, bucks are usually cruising if they aren't locked down with a doe. I have had a lot of success sitting and glassing clearcuts where I have seen does. I may glass for 4 hours and then glass the same area again, and a deer is standing there, where there wasn't a deer before. It takes some practice and discipline but it is a useful tactic that works. Lastly, if I haven't killed my deer by late buck, I hunt sunrise to sunset. I haven't eaten a tag in a long time and hope this info helps you in some way.

[@deibert1]

When its nasty wind and rain hunt 3-5 yr old cuts along the edges. Where newer cuts meet timber lines prime time for late season is first and last couple hours. One thing about blacktail is when it's heavy rain and wind the tend to stay out of the heavy timber bc cats can sneak up on them. Thick reprod and brushy bowls are a good area to glass and reglass. And once you think you're done glassing go at it once more thats usually when you see them. Good luck

[@williamcooke6056]

Search the edges and back corners of younger reprod and into the shrinking open spots as they grow each year, and keep looking for new spots and monitor the growth and deer activity there as well. Sometimes I walk very slowly 50 yards inside the timber, around as much of the section as the wind allows to. I use my binoculars (10 x 42's) a lot, and I can't emphasize that enough. In my rig, i have a pair of 15 x 56 binos with a window mount and i have a tripod for them, too. Even in the timber, i glass a lot. Look for fresh tracks. In the reprod, often you'll just spot part of a deer, an ear twitch, or tail, or hopefully part of a rack sticking up from the jungle. And those crappy days? When its going to rain and bliw multiple days, it takes their ability to feed nocturnally away from them, and you'll see more deer then, and a lot of the better bucks. Keep the rifle in your hands in the timber if you aren't glassing, since your after ghosts, right? One thing I do to keep my reaction time sharp is, say I'm glassing a cut, right? I look at a certain stump and then throw my rifle up into a good shooting posture the goal being to automatically training yourself to settle the crosshairs immediately and steadily on what you were looking at. If you do that 40 or 50 or 100 times a day before the season when your scouting or cutting wood, then when the time comes, it's more of a reflex.

[@outdoorswithjethroe]

@@williamcooke6056 thank you

[@jorgegarcia3086]

Find new clear cut

[@joewoodchuck3824]

You hunted in the future but came back to show us the video in 2024. Do you own a Delorean by any chance?

[@outdoorswithjethroe]

@@joewoodchuck3824 lol guess I better fix that I’m already thinking of next year I guess

[@andrewolson269]

First lite and last lite Late in the season

[@outdoorswithjethroe]

@@andrewolson269 thank you

[@kimmccallum]