Up here Id be lucky to see the spikes I saw this weekend, come deer season they will go nocturnal or be shot opening day. This year with the nice elk tag I drew cutting into the last week of deer season I will take the first buck I see except maybe a button buck or yearling buck.
Do the blacktail where you are go nocturnal?
What’s your definition of nocturnal?
I hunt my second tag 100 miles north of my first. 1st tag 2000ft and 2nd 4000ft elevation (averages). I’ve seen bucks midday at each. Some middays are slow, some days you see em all day long.
Ok you can not compare the two!! They are all nocturnal they will move at 1 am maybe 11 pm and maybe get out of bed in front of you at 1 pm! they are deer they do what they want depending on moons weather and so on!! You can kill a buck anytime of day just be in the right spot! I have shot bucks in the jungle between 7 am to 6 pm..
. And opening weekend 
I agree what’s that mean? They eat sleep all different times of day!! Right place right time usually catch them when more vulnerable early morning late evening or Horny time
Ya it can be the same around here as well. Yea we do get alot of area to look at clear cuts, reprod , thick timber slow walking and glassing and brush hunting!! We are somewhat fortunate to have have as much state public land to hunt then you guys out east of us.
basically that they only move at night. Not a hard fast rule, but a general one.
Hopefully you can get them figured out soon. They are tasty critters.
Added another to the list yesterday 1:50p.
I will do my best to test my nocturnal theory up here....
Sounds like you have it figured out! Are your deer in full rut right now?
No. The rut barely gets started when the seasons close if you are lucky. Cool Weather is the ticket here.
My experience is more limited than yours but every year we glass clearcuts, from the logging road we're walking, along the edge. I envy the cuts like your photo, because the bucks I've experienced were all a few hundred yards away, down in draws. Ugh. Thermals and sound were on our side, in weather like yours. The fog once closed like a curtain on one nice buck within 100 yds, and once we passed on one in such a deep draw we figured it'd be faster to bring the Traeger to it than to pack it out. So this year, I'm doing the "still hunting" thing in the woods. We'll see.
I’m guessing a lot!! Not all clear cuts are created equal, sometimes there is no easy way to get into them without them seeing you. All I can say is find ones that have a lot of activity then figure out ways to get in there unnoticed even if it means in the dark. Years ago I had access to probably the best deer clearcut with small reprod I have ever seen and it was small but loaded with deer! We would sneak in thru reprod to a good vantage point just before daylight sit and start glassing it was amazing how many deer were in it. One morning we killed 2-Nice 4 point bucks 300 yards apart in less than 5 minutes of each other of course end of season during RUT! Almost did it again the next season except my dad missed his. All I’m saying figure out how to sneak in or find good vantage point from a distance or maybe a tree climbing stand on edge of clear cut and be in there and up a tree before daylight or just before dark! 
