Oregon draw results up

[starbailey]

I got a big zippo from OR.

[finnman]

My wife also got a big zilch! Wyoming it is!

[nwhunter]

Nothing in Oregon for me.. 19 points for elk...

[finnman]

23 elk points for the wife....Mt. Emily some day...

[Mr Mykiss]

I’ve still got these 16 Oregon antlerless points for sale...

[finnman]

My wife has 24 antlerless points as well...still can’t draw a Umatilla refuge buck tag.

[trophyelk6x6]

Oregon is going to change that "antlerless tag" stuff, the old 600 series antlerless will soon become true antlerless.  There was a couple units we took advantage of that allowed late rut muzz whitetails bucks.  That's gonna change. Our antlerless points are now that.

[trophyelk6x6]

My wife has 24 antlerless points as well...still can’t draw a Umatilla refuge buck tag.

Call Paul and he will tell you no matter your out of state pts you will never pull that one. 

[KopperBuck]

Oregon is going to change that "antlerless tag" stuff, the old 600 series antlerless will soon become true antlerless.  There was a couple units we took advantage of that allowed late rut muzz whitetails bucks.  That's gonna change. Our antlerless points are now that.

I dunno. People are pretty upset by it. Especially since they're leaving the Willamette tag in the 600 series. I'm going to the meeting on July 12th to let it be known. I wouldn't have invested the money in that series otherwise. They're getting push back.

[finnman]

My wife has 24 antlerless points as well...still can’t draw a Umatilla refuge buck tag.

Call Paul and he will tell you no matter your out of state pts you will never pull that one. 

I drew it in 2012 with 17 points. Missed a 34” wide 4x5. Biggest buck I have ever seen in the wild. I have been having her apply ever since.
A change in those points really would suck rocks.

[GBoyd]

As always, the lesson is that you should never wait 25 years for a hunt. Burn your points early because things change.

I don't care either way about the Umatilla hunts, but I do wish they'd changed the Willamette hunt to doe only. There's already OTC rifle for a full month, OTC bow for two months, as well as undisclosed numbers of damage control permits. The farm I work for just killed another two last month. I don't see that we need another 3000 buck tags that run from September to February. I hunt that tag yearly through a LOP and I wish they wouldn't let me kill bucks.

With the land available, the Willamette valley could be an incredible deer hunting spot, like a west coast Iowa, if they killed does to keep the population low and make the farmers happy, but left the bucks to grow a few years.

[finnman]

Actually, the lesson is there is always risk in waiting. When my wife and started saving points in the mid 90’s the intent was to draw a couple doe tags in central Oregon and go hunt with my mom. After a few years of 800 series points they combined it to the 600 series, thus sudd3nly making our 600 series totals very high. It was only then a hunt like Umatilla was possible.
This lesson is the same for every hunt. You never know when one particular hunt is going to change. Thus ending the chase.
I do not care about the Willamette unit or it’s hunts. It’s never been a goal or concern.
As to waiting, a hunt can only be valued by the hunter willing to wait to hunt it. We cannot judge the value of any hunt through our eyes unless we are the applicant.
A 34” wide mule deer is in my mind worth the wait. I have never missed a hunting season applying for it nor gone to bed hungry spending application and license fee money for the points.
So I have not lost anything other than some cash, and that’s always replaceable.

[SI Eagle]

Drew Snake River Elk tag after 16 years. Been scouting there in the past and will continue but any help or suggestions would be gladly appreciated. Thanks

[BUTTER]

Did ot take 16 years to draw or first time applying for that hunt

[hoytxl2009]

Drew Snake River Elk tag after 16 years. Been scouting there in the past and will continue but any help or suggestions would be gladly appreciated. Thanks

Did you draw the rifle or archery tag?