Oregon controlled buck tag

[Irish_hunter93]

How bad are the hoops to jump through to get this tag? It seems pretty straight forward from what I understand. Pick 5 units to apply for, send in the application, hope you get drawn, and then if you do, buy your out of state license and buck tag. Am I missing anything? Hoping to do this so I can hunt around the family ranch in adel. I'm sure someone's done this process before. Kind of getting jumbled up with my steps or maybe I'm over thinking it. Clarification is appreciated. Thanks!

[bobcat]

You must buy the hunting license first, which is around $150. You really only pick one hunt, since the first choice is the only one that counts, unless you pick an undersubscribed unit for your second choice. Otherwise, that's about right. It may take a few years to draw, depending on the unit. If it's a unit that's mostly private land, you might draw it your first try with zero points. But most take at least one point.

[B.G.hunter]

You must buy the hunting license first, which is around $150. You really only pick one hunt, since the first choice is the only one that counts, unless you pick an undersubscribed unit for your second choice. Otherwise, that's about right. It may take a few years to draw, depending on the unit. If it's a unit that's mostly private land, you might draw it your first try with zero points. But most take at least one point.

What really sucks about Oregon is the fact that they have a very low 5% cap on non-resident tags.  What a resident may draw with 1 or 2 points may take a non-resident 4 or 5 points.  The 2nd-5th selection on the draw is for 25% of the tags (and a random draw), 75% of the tags go to the highest point applicants.  If the non-resident quota is filled in the 75% you have no chances of drawing in the random draw portion. 

[soccerguy]

You must buy the hunting license first, which is around $150. You really only pick one hunt, since the first choice is the only one that counts, unless you pick an undersubscribed unit for your second choice. Otherwise, that's about right. It may take a few years to draw, depending on the unit. If it's a unit that's mostly private land, you might draw it your first try with zero points. But most take at least one point.

What really sucks about Oregon is the fact that they have a very low 5% cap on non-resident tags.  What a resident may draw with 1 or 2 points may take a non-resident 4 or 5 points.  The 2nd-5th selection on the draw is for 25% of the tags (and a random draw), 75% of the tags go to the highest point applicants.  If the non-resident quota is filled in the 75% you have no chances of drawing in the random draw portion.

Which are virtually 100% of the good hunts

[bobcat]

BGhunter- that's not quite how it works. The first choice also can be drawn from the 25% random pool. They look at all applicant's first choices first. Only after they have gone through all applicants do they look at the second choices. So you will draw a second choice only if there are more tags than first choice applicants. That's why I said it's really only the first choice that counts.

[hogsniper]

Oregon is a tricky state for non-resident hunters. I would suggest bow hunting.   OTC tags and lots of deer compared to Washington.   

[Bigshooter]

Bobcat pretty much summed it up.

[vandeman17]

Oregon is a tricky state for non-resident hunters. I would suggest bow hunting.   OTC tags and lots of deer compared to Washington.

Learned this last year and 100% agree. Oregon seems to be pretty friendly to the bowhunter

[Irish_hunter93]

Well I applied for my tag, got my choices nailed down, fingers crossed but I'm not holding my breath. Who knows maybe I'll get lucky.  Put in for north warner, south warner, beattys butte, and interstate. Hoping something good can come out of that!

[Bigshooter]

Well I applied for my tag, got my choices nailed down, fingers crossed but I'm not holding my breath. Who knows maybe I'll get lucky.  Put in for north warner, south warner, beattys butte, and interstate. Hoping something good can come out of that!

You will draw none of those tags.

[Bigshooter]

You want to learn about OR check out this site.

https://sites.google.com/site/oregontags/

[bobcat]

Are you just wanting to build up points, or do you actually want to hunt this year? Because like Bigshooter said, you won't draw any of those.

You put North Warner as your first choice (which as I said before, is really your only choice, because you can't draw 2nd, 3rd, and 4th choices unless they are undersubscribed) but it only has 1 tag available for non-residents. If you had 16 points, you'd have a chance at it.

Your best bet with those as your choices, if you want a chance to draw this year, is put Interstate as your 1st choice. You could get lucky and draw out of the 25% random pool. There's really no need to put down anything other than a 1st choice.

[go4steelhd]

You will not draw the interstate unit out of the 25% pool either, unless the odds change from last year. The non resident quota gets filled off of preference points first. The only way you will ever draw out of the 25% pool is if there are more tags than non resident hunters with any preference  points left in the quota. So just for example if there is 10 tags that can go to a non resident and there are 10 non residents with one point in the draw you have zero chance in the 25% pool because the quota has already been met. So if you find a hunt that has 10 tags that could go to a non resident and only 7 non residents have preference points in that draw 3 non residents could draw in the 25% pool. Also when looking at the odds remember that outfitters get up to half the non resident quota before the draw even happens!!!

[nwhunter]

Hate to see anyone get sucked into the Oregon points game especially if you dont understand how it really works. Really do your research and know what you want to draw before you start because it can take a really long time, it ever, and get really expensive. There are defenitley better states to spend ten plus years of time and money applying for that are more nonres friendly with their quotas. There are some good sources of info online that give you the true odds of drawing so dont just go off of the state info that make you think you have a chance at tags that you really cant draw in likely your lifetime! Wish I had never started!!! nwhunter

[MtnMuley]

You will not draw the interstate unit out of the 25% pool either, unless the odds change from last year. The non resident quota gets filled off of preference points first. The only way you will ever draw out of the 25% pool is if there are more tags than non resident hunters with any preference  points left in the quota. So just for example if there is 10 tags that can go to a non resident and there are 10 non residents with one point in the draw you have zero chance in the 25% pool because the quota has already been met. So if you find a hunt that has 10 tags that could go to a non resident and only 7 non residents have preference points in that draw 3 non residents could draw in the 25% pool. Also when looking at the odds remember that outfitters get up to half the non resident quota before the draw even happens!!!

Hate to see anyone get sucked into the Oregon points game especially if you dont understand how it really works. Really do your research and know what you want to draw before you start because it can take a really long time, it ever, and get really expensive. There are defenitley better states to spend ten plus years of time and money applying for that are more nonres friendly with their quotas. There are some good sources of info online that give you the true odds of drawing so dont just go off of the state info that make you think you have a chance at tags that you really cant draw in likely your lifetime! Wish I had never started!!! nwhunter

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