Deer hunters - reports?

blacktail · 10-09-2003, 10:16 AM

Lets use this thread for everyone to post their deer hunting reports.

We had zero success in our camp this year. We had seven tags in camp at one time, and nobody harvested a buck.

I saw one buck on Friday evening (before opening day) that looked to be a smallish forked horn.

We hunted Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues and a quick morning hunt on Weds before heading home.

I personally only saw one legal buck while hunting and it was a small spike, which I wasn't interested in.

We hunted the Paulina unit.

Steeliehunter, I took a drive on Tuesday but couldn't find your camp. I did find one camp in the area that had a paper plate hung with the name "Bradley" on it. Maybe you had already headed home by then?

Okay, let's hear your reports.

Mike

SureSet · 10-09-2003, 12:46 PM

Hunted Desolation with two other guys for 4 days. We had plenty of opportunity for forks and small 3pts on the first two days, but passed for what we thought would be some decent racks here or there. After seeing the same 'ol in all the camps, I finally took a fork Sun. night that was an easy drag. By Tuesday, pressure on the animals was down and niether of the other guys could find a buck. 1 for 3, but 7-8 passes between us.

SureSet

fishuntr2 · 10-09-2003, 01:49 PM

Hunted saddle mountain. Son saw a buck and several does. I got a coyote and found a nice 3-pt. blacktail shed. This was sat, day 1. On day 2 son saw a bull, 8 cows and 3 does, I stayed home and did chores. Met a hunter sat. who had seen 3 bulls and 3 does day 1. All within a mile of my house :grin:

Old Coot · 10-09-2003, 01:53 PM

Hunted extreme SE corner of Ochoco unit, near Rager. Four tags in camp, hunted 3.5 days each. One shot fired at a running coyote. One buck sighted, & a few scattered does. My son did a census of about 25 camps on Sunday evening and again Monday afternoon. NO deer hanging. Weather was warm, considerable local rain from a thunderstorm on, I think, Sunday; but things were crunchy again by Monday afternoon. Nevertheless, good times had by all.

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nerta · 10-09-2003, 02:09 PM

one fork killed on sat.am! with one escaped, we couldn't see horns until it started into the timber! seen a nice 5x3 taken sun. keta and bro saw one buck each during the next three days with no shots fired. hunted the national forest land in the heppner unit. very few people out in the woods! seems like they just love to be close to camp and the roads!!! go figure....?

willametteriveroutlaw · 10-09-2003, 02:16 PM

Went yesterday,
saw about 30 elk and then say 3 does on the way out..

wife&3kids · 10-09-2003, 03:12 PM

had a great time with great people. Here are the results. Unfortunately, I did not shoot any of these deer.

wife&3kids · 10-09-2003, 03:15 PM

oops!

Joe · 10-09-2003, 10:15 PM

I killed a 5x5 on Monday morning. He was 21" wide with fairly heavy horns. My son missed a PIG on Saturday morning. All I can say for sure is that he was much larger than the one I killed. :depressed:

I saw a total of eight bucks with just the two being worth getting excited over.

I wish we had just one real good Mule Deer unit to hunt even if it took many years in between to draw. [img]graemlins/idea.gif[/img]

A good friend has hunted Trout Creek twice and that doesn't seem to be worth the wait.

Flatfish · 10-09-2003, 10:23 PM

Hunted sat, Sun, and mon am in Paulina unit.

To be kind, it sucked.

I saw 1 deer in 3 days.

In normal years, we see between 8-12 deer a day. Every day of season.

Dad stayed in La Pine. He drove up and down hwy 31 Friday, Sat, and Sun in the dark . There were no deer. Anywhere. Normally you have to slow down for 20 deer in 20 miles.

They simply were not there. Someone in the Paulina unit must have murdered them. I doubt they just up and moved.

Great food.

Good Company.

Good times.

Dawn has not killed a buck yet.... The saga continues.

Mark and the antlerless dog.

24 on/ 48 off · 10-09-2003, 11:25 PM

Passed on a small spike Sunday evening. All the rest I saw were flatheads.

--spud-- :smile:

blast and cast · 10-09-2003, 11:41 PM

Killed a fork on opening day at 7 am in off an area on highway 6

birdhunter · 10-10-2003, 10:08 AM

Hunted Beattes Butte outside of Adel on Saturday and Sunday. Passed up a 3 pt at first light opening morning. Never saw a buck after that. There was quite the quad hatch though. 300 + antelope and some beautiful country, but no trophy mulie this year.

MountainLion84 · 10-10-2003, 11:28 PM

We hunted the Chesnimus unit this past week. We came home 5 for 9 with one nice 4-point, 3-forkenhorns, and 1-spike. My 13 year old boy got the spike. There were quite a few small bucks, with only two of us not having the opportunity to shoot or make the decision not to harvest. Two guys missed, one gal was really crippled up with a bad back, and I didn't see anything. I hunted clear down the breaks of Joseph creek, and still didn't see a buck. I did see a beautiful brown colored bear and her cub. Weather was just too hot.

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1pump · 10-11-2003, 12:36 AM

Drove thru downtown Fossil a few days ago. Must have flushed at least 20 deer out of the city park and out of people's yards just by passing thru at 15 mph.
I don't know what unit that is, but if you're hunting around there, that's where the deer are. :smile:

No Wishin Just Fishin · 10-11-2003, 07:04 AM

Hunted 5 days in Eastern Ore 4 tags in camp and 4 for 4 2 4 pts, large fork and the winner of the small buck contest by one of the guys Spike with 5 inches total of both horns

Won him some nice binocs and a pd of Jerky. We saw about 40 bucks on private ground and about 15 in the woods. More people would score if they got out of the rig once in awhile

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redfish89 · 10-11-2003, 07:53 AM

I went out Friday morning. Hunted around vernonia. Weather was great, light rain and no wind. Saw no deer

I figured the deer would be everywhere. Boy was i wrong... Heading out this evening. I will post our results.