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teamt
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How are the bulls in the Eagle Cap wilderness area? Anything with good size come out of there lately? 300-350 class?
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HuntHard00
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300 is a good bull out of the Eagle Caps but I wouldn't hold out for one. That area gets hunted pretty hard and is an opportunity hunt in Oregon. I hunted it one bow season on a general tag and there were multiple camps in every main drainage. There were alot of elk around but they got run into the timber pretty quick. In a week's hunt I saw two spikes and a 5 point. Great country though.
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teamt
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-21-10 AT 11:28PM (MST)[p]thank you for the tips!!!! sounds like i need to try else where then. i was thinking of going with a guide service for a drop camp maybe or something along those lines.
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HuntHard00
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There are several outfitters that run drop camps back in there and there are a number of stand up outfits. When we were back in there we met alot of nonresidents that had been packed in and most of them were pretty disappointed. I don't want to discourage you - there are elk in those woods and you can be successful if you work hard and have alittle luck. However, its a typical public land hunt and you would need to scale your expectations accordingly.
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teamt
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ok thank you for the help and info!!!
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HuntHard00
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Muleyman, there is alot of difference between hunting an area with a long history of local knowledge and coming in cold from somewhere else and trying to figure out what is going on. (And if I had a ranch over there, I'd count myself very fortunate - I love that country.)
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3dvapor
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ide love to see some pictures muleyman. Anything over 300 would be a real trophy in that country. odfw gives to many rifle tags and allows open season on spikes. trying to survive that for 7-9 years would be a real feat no matter how good the genetics are.
