What's really going on with regards to the tribes that are getting tags for sheep and mountain goats here in NE Oregon?!?!
The Umatilla tribe until 2015 has received 6 ram tags for Lookout Mountain and 8 billy goat tags for the Elkhorns. 2015 the number of tags has been reduced to 3 tags for sheep and EIGHT for billy goat, for the Indians. I believe we get 1 or 2 billy goat tags
A guy on iFish has posted "7MM-08 Does it Again-Ram Down" with pics and a story of his ram. Long story short we watched these 2 guys road hunt up and down the one main gravel road in this area, no less than 12 times past our place, 2 weekends ago. We then watched them get out of their truck and shoot a ram from the ROAD. This was no hunt, it was a killing. Their season is FIVE months long and ours is 15 days. 15 days is plenty but 5 months?!? They wait until December because they know the snow pushes the sheep down to the roads. Last year we caught a guy on private property that shot a ram on this property without getting permission. We waited for him to return to his truck after we watched him shoot this ram. We confronted him and he said..."we have the right to hunt anytime and anywhere we want"! We said OSP will think differently and we called them. I guess its their RIGHT to poach?!? LOL
I'm sorry but our system is really screwed up when it comes to these tribal hunts. Rant over.
muleyman
The Umatilla tribe until 2015 has received 6 ram tags for Lookout Mountain and 8 billy goat tags for the Elkhorns. 2015 the number of tags has been reduced to 3 tags for sheep and EIGHT for billy goat, for the Indians. I believe we get 1 or 2 billy goat tags
A guy on iFish has posted "7MM-08 Does it Again-Ram Down" with pics and a story of his ram. Long story short we watched these 2 guys road hunt up and down the one main gravel road in this area, no less than 12 times past our place, 2 weekends ago. We then watched them get out of their truck and shoot a ram from the ROAD. This was no hunt, it was a killing. Their season is FIVE months long and ours is 15 days. 15 days is plenty but 5 months?!? They wait until December because they know the snow pushes the sheep down to the roads. Last year we caught a guy on private property that shot a ram on this property without getting permission. We waited for him to return to his truck after we watched him shoot this ram. We confronted him and he said..."we have the right to hunt anytime and anywhere we want"! We said OSP will think differently and we called them. I guess its their RIGHT to poach?!? LOL
I'm sorry but our system is really screwed up when it comes to these tribal hunts. Rant over.
muleyman