Oregon Blacktail Hunt: Multiple Chances and BIG BUCKS

[@davidworthen4250]

Wind direction is critical. Hunt with the wind in your face as much as possible, deer have an incredible sense of smell. Go as slow as possible, a rule of thumb is to take three steps and stand for three steps, in other words stand and look as much as you move, you get a little different angle with each step. Look for just pieces of a deer, such as an ear, tail wag, antler sticking out, anything. I have been using a call for the past few years and have had great success. Stay into the hunt at all times, it can happen any time, any place. Good luck.

[@travelingtechnician662]

One strategy tip, bring a friend, cough cough… me!

[@johnnash5118]

Focus with your hearing as much or more than sight, you miss a lot when you're moving; still-hunt by hearing and seeing more and moving less, it takes me 20 minutes to get 100 yards in the woods. Deer don't see details well but see movement extremely well. Does have browsed trails withing 10 yards of me caught in the open (frozen, face hidden, upwind) sniffed, stared and within 3 minutes, slowly walked away, perhaps thinking I was a burnt stump (I was wearing a black coverall.) If I wasn't still-hunting, they'd have detected me long before I detected them.