Blacktail Deer Tactics - The Bow Rack Grand Opening 

As a first generation hunter, I really appreciate any help as I learn to hunt. Thank you to the Bow Rack and the Endicotts for all the help over the years. I have been able to introduce my son, Jonathan to Elk hunting as well as other young men. Great video, good music and great content. Thanks. Jeff Dahl, Eugene, Oregon.

Really good information for anyone wanting to hunt Oregon. Oregon resident all my life and I thought this was very well put together and being a blacktail hunter these guys know these critters well.

Love this video, mature blacktail bucks are by far the hardest to animals to kill in the NW and don’t get enough attention. Keep making Blacktail videos.

Thanks again Nathan

been going to the Bow Rack for years grew up in Springfield the Endicotts have always been a great help.

Absolutely fantastic video! Thanks for putting it together. A trove of useful info.

I started bow hunting western Oregon Blacktail in 2005, Arrowed my first buck in 2007. Bought my first treestand in 2010 and have been religiously hunting from a tree ever since. It's really cool watching deer that don't they're being watched at close range. When it comes to the bow hunting tips in this video I feel that I apply most of what was said but it was a long road of learning from my mistakes to reach that point. My personal motto has become "you can't be in the right place at the right time unless you're there all the time", My butt is in the tree at least 1 hour before sun up, especially in late season. 13 bucks in 16 seasons, but I started letting smaller bucks walk about 7 years ago and I have taken some very nice bucks since.. 13 more days until 2022 Oregon Late Bow opens.. I'm ready.

Really well done. Chock-full of great takeaways. "Private land" comments had me rolling. Like timber company land is some high fence ranch LOL

Good stuff...I miss coming in to the Bow Rack and picking Wayne's brain on deer hunting and even shed hunting...I used his suggestions and really increased my success! Good job on video...

I hunted hard for several days a couple seasons ago and a tall and wide 3 pt jumped up below me on an old road. Of course my rifle was strapped to my pack as I had worked the area 45 minutes prior. I had to watch him slwoly trot off until he disappeared, truly painful. This video is great andhelp me get over it..kinda haha

This was awesome. At 48 planning on hunting for my first time this yrar. Am training body, mind and bow strength! Thanks for the video

Hey, Nathan, happy to see a new post! Hope you had a successful season last year! We had fun up here in N. Idaho, I got a bucket list checked off with my first mountain lion on a solo hunt. It was a highlight for me. Was fortunate to get a 4x5 whitetail in November. Good luck this year!

Thanks for another great video! Great information!

Really great stuff. This is exactly what I was hoping for.

As always, another excellent video! Great information on how to harvest a mature blacktail. The dates are spot on. My most successful day is Halloween. I love late October with heavy rains. Good luck this upcoming season. Looking forward to another video.

Great video, I love Blacktail hunting, they can truly kick your but, you definitely earn them..

Nathan Cool video and a great buck. I was noticing the rifle your were using because I have the same rifle which was my father's and it looks like the exact same scope. I grew up in Sweet Home and after high school joined the Navy where I spent 20 yrs, where I Retired and now live in Virginia. I'll be out early next year and I will be stopping by your dad's shop. Great hunt and congrats!!

Nicely done…Soon, very soon! 👊🏻🏹

Very helpful man! Great video

Thanks for all the insight you provide to Blacktail hunters, and really cool film. Would love some more insight on the slow hunting in big timber or the ground blind game..=). Been living in up Mckenzie area Springfield for year but just recently got into bowhunting. I had my first late season archery last year, and even though I didn't get anything I have a ton of fun learning. Got close to a couple does but no bucks. This year I am shed hunting and have found some big horns and getting very excited. Thanks for all you and your Dad do!

Great info guys!! I'm on Vancouver Island and love hunting these ghosts. Keep up the great work!!!

Thank you for making this video 👍🏼 I’m from Hawaii and we also hunt Blacktail here. I’ve harvested a few with rifles before but currently trying to get one with my bow. Hopefully I can get it done this season 🏹

I’m 60, and started hunting BT’s when I was 16 in the Tioga, Powers and Melrose units with a ‘78 vintage compound. I think much of the advice here is sound tactics generally, but the NW units like the Trask and Stott Mtn. are somewhat different tactically than the Melrose, Powers and Evans Cr. units, they’re more densely timbered and brushy, and have more competition, and idiots who think shooting’s ok in the middle of hunting units during open season. Imho, another hunt tactic that addresses where bucks are drawn to are riparian zones in draws and basins, with mostly maples and alders, brush and ample escape routes into the timber. Locate trails under the tree cover and set up a stand with a trusty brush gun, the ranges will be 0-50 yards, and the ground will be constantly damp to wet, with intermittent swamp, so they will move past like ghosts. Stands are great in high-pressure units because you are the one to select the best field of fire in the best habitat, while everyone else hunts around or toward your position, thereby funneling deer into your FoF. I enjoyed this video, it brought back my early days in the late 70’s.

Wow. This was great.

First time bow hunting in September for blacktail in Washington !!!! I usually do rifle and become successful every year with a rifle but I have a question is ! What are blacktail doing during September do I need to call or anything ?

Amazing and very helpful video - I live and plan to hunt in the same area as you, and have been meaning to check out the Bow Rack. Any chance you'd be willing to help a beginner out? I'd even be willing to put my inexperience on film if you want to make a video 😂

A Trigger Stick tripod or bipod makes shots more accurate, and is great to support binoculars while scoping clearcuts, it's also great when still-hunting through cat trails as third-leg assists through sticks and brush; I don't leave home without it.

Thank you for making this! 2021 was my first season hunting blacktail, and it became painfully clear how much I didn’t know about how to hunt these deer. Lots of great info in this video.

All good tips ..thank you!

Gotta love Oregon:) time and legs is always a must as well,optics yeah but it thick and that's where you'll find alot

A lot of great information, I’d like to learn more techniques for early season about August 27 through September for general archery western Oregon

Great hunt as expected, Nathan. Thank you for taking us along on your adventure! Out of curiosity, did you get to hunt some bears this last spring?

Well done. Thank you

A noble effort. Hopefully I can hunt them one day.

One good or bad thing is, they don’t update their maps often enough. Especially now while companies like Weyerhaeuser are decimating all of their timber,,,

The Black-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus columbianus) is one of three extant deer species within the genus Odocoileus, the others being the Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and the White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus), there are two extant subspecies of black-tailed deer, the Columbian Black-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus columbianus columbianus) and the Sitka Black-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus columbianus sitkensis), the Black-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus columbianus) is most closely related to the White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) while the Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is basal to both.

Good video for beginners. I shot my first buck in 1992 in the Alsea. Not a fan of archery at all though. I will say you don't need expensive name brand crap to glass for animals. Get the Vortex UHD binos, half the price of Swarovski and same quality glass in my opinion, plus it comes with a lifetime warranty. Nobody mentioned wind in this video. That's probably the most important thing you can do. Watch those thermals around 930 they start heading up the mountain. And last probably the most important for Oregon with all the rain is get yourself some good rain gear. I'd recommend First-Lite. You stay dry, you stay warm.

Good Tips 👍

It was a general season until you posted this

they're not giving up they're just falling back to their base model.... stuffing the ballet box

So it’s just like mountain mule deer hunting?

Nothin like a nice Blacktail buck to get my excited. I’ve killed plenty of Mulies and a handful of nice Whitetails but Blacktails are different.. not exactly sure why

Isn’t drone footage illegal?

Ive noticed that grunt works best if u find a doe who looks like she has been be servised

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