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Old 12-09-2002, 06:24 PM   #1
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Default Blacktail season cut a week?

Did anyone hear any talk about Western Oregon rifle season losing a week? By the way it is the best week!

According to my calculations the season should have ended on November 12 next year but the new regs say not. This is the first time ever in my memory that the season is not 5 weeks plus a few days.
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Old 12-09-2002, 06:38 PM   #2
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Default Re: Blacktail season cut a week?

It has to do with the way the Saturdays fall. I don't remember exactly what it is, if it is the closet Saturday to the 1st of Oct or what, so next year insted of opening in late Sept like this year it opens on the 4th of Oct. Don't lose it off the back but the front of the season.
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Old 12-09-2002, 07:02 PM   #3
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Thanks firedog. I had only looked back to the 98' regs when the season started on Oct. 3 and it ended on Nov. 11. So.... I was wishful that next year if it started on Oct 4 it would go to Nov 12. :depressed:

I just dug around and found the 97 regs (which is the last time that it started on Oct 4) and it ended on Nov 5 then also. :depressed:

So much for my master plans.
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Old 12-09-2002, 07:35 PM   #4
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Joe, I wish you had been right about it going till the 12th. My favorite time to hunt is the last week or so and going till the 12th would havbe been awesome again, like a few years ago. Will just have to make the best of it, hopefully we will have the rain and snow by the end of next season that we didnt get this year. :smile:
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Old 12-10-2002, 06:12 AM   #5
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Default Re: Blacktail season cut a week?

DRAT I also was hoping for a later ending. Guess will have to hunt harder and smarter this coming year.
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Old 12-10-2002, 06:59 AM   #6
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ODFW's biologists are concerned about the overall blacktail [img]graemlins/1zhelp.gif[/img] decline and have talked about eliminating the last week of the regular hunting season. That is when the deer are the most vulnerable and accounts for a high % of the harvest. If a reduction is needed it makes sense to take it off the end rather than the start of the season.
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