Redmond/Bend is surrounded by good hunting. It is also the most populated area east of the Cascades. I would say you need to go at least an hour or 2 north, south or east to really get away from the casual hunting crowd. If archery elk is your main focus, you are in luck! Oregon has some great general archery hunting. What I have noticed in the last few years though is that the casual hunters are making it harder to get bulls to come in to calls because they do some stupid things. A few examples, I heard and eventually saw a guy sitting on his 4 wheeler (in full camo and face paint, and a camo 4-wheeler) driving 200 yards and bugling, driving another 200 yards and bugling, etc. for several miles, watched him go right by me. I know the elk saw him just like I saw him and of course they were going to be wary of bugles from then on. Another guy was walking out in the wide open, bugling away, even if an elk were coming to him they would see him in a second. Again, all he was doing was teaching the elk what a hunter bugling sounds like. I think close to Redmond you're going to run into those kind of things, but if you just get away from the easy access you'll have some good hunting.