Recent content by ORPhotoGuy

I had that same hunt few years ago and went with what was supposed to be a good local outfitter in the area. It was clear as soon as I showed up in Pie Town that it wasn't the hunt I thought it was going to be. My guide had never hunted the unit outside of archery season so sadly the first 3...

You have to use the backdoor. MYFWP MENU - Click Search Hunters. Click Enter Hunter Search Criteria and then input your DOB, Zip Code and phone number. It will spit out raw data in an excel spreadsheet that shows your current status.

Results are up for first round of the general draw.

The landowner tags are different. They are only valid on their land but they can sell/donate up to half of the amount they are authorized to get to either resident or nonresident hunters. The guide/outfitter tags are taken from the non-res pool and are only good for non-residents. Those...

Please come and harvest a bear or two and bring a friend to do the same. It's really quick and easy to get the head checked in. They just remove a small tooth and the skull doesn't need cleaned up at all. They just request that if you freeze the head to prop the mouth open so they can...

Another thing to remember with Oregon's messed up wildlife agency (ODFW), there are guide tags for non-residents. Outfitters can get up to half of the small allocation of non-resident tags to sell to their clients before the normal big game draw in June. Once you burn your points, or even before...

I wouldn't burn 24 points on any of our Roosevelt units, they just aren't that great. I've seen some dandy 300-340 bulls come out of OTC units though almost all of them came off of private ranches. I've taken one over 300 and screwed up on several others. With 24 points, I'd be holding out for...

The McKenzie has great trout fishing and even summer steelhead.

I bought the girlfriend both the slik-sling and the gunbearer for Christmas prior to her New Mexico aoudad hunt last winter. Based on our field testing them, it looks like I'll be buying a gunbearer before mule deer season this fall. Both were a huge improvement over the standard shoulder...

I went with a friend a few years ago and it was a pretty cool area to hunt. We went on a guided hunt with a guide that wore axe body spray and only wanted to road hunt so you can guess how well that went. I will say we did see 75-100 bucks a day but very few over 150-160 class. We hunted...

If you have a portion of the coast in particular that you are interested in, let me know and I might be able to give you a few leads.

This website has the most current info usually. https://ofic.com/private-forestland-closures/ The PDF summary hasn't been updated since last fall but here's a link to it. https://ofic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OFIC-Closure-Form-10_08_21.pdf It's a good starting point at least.

I'd highly recommend finding another outfitter. Had a real bad experience with this outfit a few years ago.

I had the late rifle season tag. We hit it hard but honestly saw more bucks and much larger bucks in a Colorado hunt a week later in a unit that only took 1 point to draw. I was shocked how poor the buck numbers were in Unit 13. The biologist was really helpful though, he said the odds of...

That helps a lot and confirms what we've been seeing. Lots of does on the private ag fields at the 6 /318 junction but no decent bucks even.