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I know many of you have been watching and waiting for pics on this thread and were sad to see it locked when people became childish with the name calling and such. Let’s keep this thread clean so we can just truly enjoy this accomplishment! PT Jeffers was hesitant to post the pictures and...

My boys and I spent some quality time in the woods this week hunting elk. Nothing the first 3 days and then we filled 4 tags in the next day and a half. They each made 1 shot kills. First elk for my older son and my younger son’s second elk, they have become really excellent hunters! Our...

Sorry, it’s kinda slow in the shed forum this time of year. ?

Well we made it back and it was a great time! I’ll give you guys some pictures of the whole experience but if you just want the picture of the buck it’s at the bottom of the post ? As expected, the horses were everywhere, my daughter wanted to take pictures of all of them the first day, that...

Heading out tomorrow with my 13 year old daughter who has a Steens tag. I'll post up pictures when I get back. Hopefully it will be of a buck but if not, you'll get pics of horses and aspens! :) Good luck to all!

I've hunted mule deer my whole life and love it but I can only draw in Oregon every 3 or so years. We have a general season Blacktail deer tag in Western Oregon that I can buy OTC every year if I don't draw a tag, obviously not a great tag but I'm just starting to think about shifting to pistol...

My 12 year old son Luke had an Oregon buck tag this year. He's hunted with me over the years but this was going to be his first tag. He tells people that he had been waiting 8 years for this hunt. :) We were able to get some time off of school and work to devote to this trip. We hunted hard the...

I have a single leg shooting stick (monopod I guess you'd call it) and I have used it for my boys the last few years and it has been helpful but they have struggled to hold it steady left/right. They have both taken bucks with it but I have had to help hold the stick steady for the shot (which...

My middle son (Luke, 12 years old) and I just got back from his hunt in the Steens unit. We hunted hard for 6 days solid and finally got to put the sneak on a buck on the last day we could hunt. He made a great shot and was ecstatic with the result :) With all the big boy concerns we have on our...

I went out for a hunt for the first time this week and was shocked to find some serious (apparently) beetle kill swaths in some areas that I have hunted most of my life. There is one area that is probably a 25 square mile area in the Malheur River unit that I could see from a high hill that has...

It looks like ODFW is going to reduce tags for several units that were hit hard by the winter. I was hoping they would but not really expecting them to drop any tags but they surprised me. This is a link to the exact numbers and units. http://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2017/04_apr/041417d.asp

I am just looking for input on what kind of binoculars you guys might recommend. I bought a pair of HD Steiner Peregrine 8x42's to replace my 8x30 Nikons a few years ago and they have revolutionized my hunting success. I do alot of shed hunting and rifle hunting where I am walking with them for...

I am just looking for input on what kind of binoculars you guys use for shed hunting. I bought a pair of HD Steiner Peregrine 8x42's to replace my 8x30 Nikons a few years ago and they have revolutionized my shed hunting success. I literally found enough antlers with them to make them worth it in...

I'm not sure how many of you guys/ladies are following or are interested in what is happening out here in Harney County but after carefully watching this play out for two weeks, I've got some thoughts as a local. First, I know that this issue stirs strong feelings and opinions in many and I'm...

Has anyone had any success this rifle deer season? Or archery? Post 'em if ya got 'em! Here's mine, nothing too big, a 4 point on one side, the other side had a damage spot on the mainbeam and ended up as a 3 on that side. Saw two much bigger bucks during the season but couldn't get a shot. This...

I don't know how many of you have been following this but it is good news for ranchers, hunters, outdoors men and women in central end eastern Oregon! Hopefully we can keep improving the numbers over the next few years to keep them off the list in the future too.

Unfortunately I found more sign of feral pigs, there is no doubt now. It is in one of my favorite areas too, hopefully I'll be able to put a few of them down but everything I have read is that it is nearly impossible to get rid of them once they have established a few sounders. I'm going to take...

I've heard that we have feral pigs in southwestern Oregon but has anyone seen or heard of any in the rest of the state? I was out and about the other day and I was finding a lot of weird digging under trees, trails through low heavy brush but no cows had been in the area for years, trails cut...

Thought you guys might enjoy this. Here is a shed that I found this spring. It is the third shed from this bull in the same area and about a week before 1st bull season I saw him with a harem of 20 or so cows in the same area. He had put on some good length on the g-1,g-2 and g-3 compared to...

I'm looking for some thoughts from some of you guys that are serious coyote hunters. I've hunted since I was a kid and I spend 50+ days a year in the field hunting sheds, birds, big game, varmints, etc. I've killed my fair share of coyotes using a mouth call or watching a rancher's bone pile or...

I wish I had a tag but maybe next year. In the meantime I have to live through everybody else :)

I've been doing a little scouting for the upcoming season and I came across these. It lets me pretend that I could ever find a buck like this on the hoof during the season. :) The pictures don't really do justice to how big he is. He is a legitimate 180"-185" buck with a big spread (the...

I've been doing a little scouting to see what I can turn up for deer. Here's a little something I found to keep all of us dreaming about what we could run into. The pictures don't do justice to how huge he is. He is a legitimate 180"-185" buck with a huge spread (the white rope is 30" long)...

Who wants to share what they decided on for tags?

I'll be in some of the low country next week and may run into some antelope, I'd be happy to give some info on what I see if anyone needs it.

Here are some of this year's elk sheds. And this year's deer sheds. The grass is starting to give me a little trouble now. Hopefully I can get to 100 before it gets too tall.

I showed you guys some of my deer sheds from the first part of this year, here are some of the elk. Nothing too huge but most are from this year or last so many are still running the hills getting bigger.

Contrary to popular belief, there are still some deer in Oregon. No, not as many as 20 years ago, and not like in Utah but a few are still kickin'. I just thought I would post up the deer sheds from this year. 2 bucks from this year would go 180ish and 3 from last year would go 180 if they were...

Here is a set of elk sheds that I found 2 years ago with my brothers and my 2 boys. A decent Oregon bull that could still be alive! I had him mounted up, he scores 310-320ish. Something look at and to get us through the dead of winter. :)

Here is a set I found on Easter 2 years ago. Scores 310-320ish, not the biggest I've ever found, but I found it with my brothers and my 2 sons so I thought I'd get it mounted. Good memories!

Here is an odd set that I matched up yesterday. 20" spike on one side, 3 point on the other.

Found these in a pocket I overlooked the last few years, all were within about 100 yards of each other.

Went out hiking around the other day, found these from earlier this spring, should be a dandy buck this year! http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/4705antlers_001.jpg I also saw a great 160ish buck and a little later a bunch of smaller bucks and does. Hopefully this is not just an...

I went out the other day for an early morning hunt before it got too hot. This is the first time I've been out since June and I came away with these. Nothing too impressive, but fun to find a set anyway. I found the one side hiking in and the other side hiking out. Hopefully I can continue to...

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...

I have to admit, I'm selfish when it comes to my hard-found hunting and shed hunting spots. I hate to share them and I'm not above being ridiculously vague when people as me where I go or where I found a particular shed. (like: "around the White Mountain area" when I actually found it 20-30...

For those of you looking for the "Lost Manuscript of Watershed", good news! A breakthrough discovery has led to the unveiling of this epic document today, January 23, 2012. This is, as everyone knows, the lunar new year. Both of his earth-shaking documents were composed in the wee hours of...

For anyone in the Burns area, I will be buying antler in the Kings parking lot on Saturday Dec. 10th, 9am to around noon. Come sell your antlers and go buy your wife something nice for Christmas :)

I posted up in the Oregon forum that I had been watching a buck on Monday the 3rd and I was flip flopping on wheather to take him or not. He looked like a clean 4x4 with eyeguards, great front forks and fair height but weaker back forks. He was about the same width as his ears so I was giving...

I'm not sure what to do. I watched a great 4 point buck this morning for about an hour. My best guess is that he is a 145" buck about 22"-24" wide, great front forks, weak back forks, eyeguards, he's pretty symetrical with no broken tines or anything. He's nice but I'd love to get one just a...