What is your favorite terrain?

bonepicker · Feb 22, 2012

LAST EDITED ON Feb-22-12 AT 12:46PM (MST)[p]If everything was equal, where would you choose to hunt? If private land were not an issue and getting a tag were not an issue and if there was no difference between the numbers and quality of elk, deer, birds, etc in the canyons of Owyhee, in the alpine meadows of the Eagle Caps, in the sage flats, in the coastal range, in Farmer John's hay field, etc. where would you chose to hunt? Give us your top 3 (or your top 10 if you're feeling ambitious)

Mine:
1) Small hidden meadows
2) A mahogany ridge dotted with water holes/springs
3) Alpine wilderness

muleyman · Feb 22, 2012

For me I love area's like the Snake River unit. You can be in easy "rolling" hills in one area and steep rugged country in the next! Anywhere away from the crowds, I am grateful to be...

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oregonmuley · Feb 22, 2012

I've backpack hunting into the Eagle Caps for deer a couple times, never did pull the trigger on anything but I think about those hunts every year when I put in for tags. Its pretty dang big country but fun stuff.

That or the open sage country of central/ SE Oregon chasing antelope - I can like that

tchoate3 · Feb 22, 2012

I usually find myself in the thickest stuff any unit I hunt has to offer. I grew up hunting in the Cascades so thats what seems natural to me. I do like the big canyons in Hells canyon though, you can see for miles! I am due for speed goat tag next year, so I will have to learn to hunt open sage I guess for that.

Hiker of the Woods · Feb 22, 2012

The coast range and some of the wilderness areas I have been in Colorado, Eagle Caps, Wenaha. I have heard great things about the Steens and Hells canyon but have yet to spend a hunting season there.

NickW · Feb 22, 2012

Mountain range crests and juniper/sage hills.
Basically anything other than pastures and hay fields.

gunguy · Feb 24, 2012

It depends on what I am hunting for, Mule deer I like to find rimrocks or steep open country at the upper end of a brushy canyon or draw and stay there all day.
For elk my favorite thing is to hunt through heavy timbered slopes one step at a time, always into the wind and look,look, and look some more.
For Blacktails around here in so. oregon I have had the best luck setting up on the top side of old clearcuts that have reprod (replanted) trees about 4 or 5 years old and watch or hunt through small draws that have oak trees and brush, always into the wind.

baltz526 · Feb 24, 2012

I dislike hunting private land. field hunting is boring. Other than that all of the above. Each tag gets its own terrain type, all are good.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------support your local guzzlers. OHA life member,lapine oregon