The Blacktail Coach Podcast

Send us Fan Mail The forecast changed overnight and that’s exactly why we don’t treat weather apps like gospel. We walk through our Five Factor Weather Report mindset for blacktail deer hunting, including how to read micro-fronts, find huntable rain breaks, and use barometric pressure trends to pick the hours when deer are most likely to get on their feet. If you’re hunting the Pacific Northwest, this is the kind of weekly planning that helps you stop guessing and start timing your sits with ...

Send us Fan Mail Deer don’t read your calendar, but they do react to patterns and this week is loaded with them. We’re Aaron and Dave, and we’re back with our Five Factors forecast for Oct 26 through Nov 1 to help you plan blacktail deer hunting sits across Washington, Oregon, and California with less guesswork and more purpose. We talk through real conditions we’re seeing on the ground, including a surprise heat wave, a sharp temperature drop, and what happens when extra human traffic floods...

Send us Fan Mail https://a.co/d/0iEbgSXd A blacktail season can feel random until you start stacking the odds. We’re Aaron and Dave, and this week’s Five Factors Weather Report for October 19 through 26 focuses on what actually moves deer: meaningful temperature changes, light rain that creates short feeding windows, and a barometric pressure jump that can flip the switch from bedded down to on their feet. If you’re heading into Washington modern firearm season, or you’re already grinding i...

Send us Fan Mail The calendar says mid-October, but the woods say “things are starting to happen.” We lay out our five-factor weather report for October 12 through 18 and explain how we’d hunt it across blacktail country in Washington, Oregon, and California. If you’re trying to turn random sits into a real strategy, this is the kind of weekly forecast that helps you choose days with higher odds of deer movement, not just nicer weather. We talk through the red moon timing and why afternoon a...

Send us Fan Mail Get The Deliberate Pursuit of Trophy Blacktail by Dave Riley https://a.co/d/08y7xFCr You can feel it in early October: bucks are getting ruddy, does are syncing cycles, and blacktail are sliding out of summer patterns into thicker, safer cover. That’s exactly when most hunters start second-guessing their sits. We don’t guess. We build a weekly plan using the Five Factors that drive deer movement in the Pacific Northwest: rut phase, moon timing, temperature drops, barometric...