Recent content by Three Dogs

My least successful tactic has also been glassing. I've read about some guys on other forums who do almost nothing but glassing with good success. I did put in legit effort, too. Found clear cuts with no access from the bottom, sat and used a tripod for hours....

You have roughly 32 hours access to a parcel of land holding some nice bucks. You’ve never scouted it. No overnight camping. (lets say dawn to dusk, until noon of next day). How do you make the most of it? I’ll start: 1. Dawn: Quiet, walk/sneak up on the clear cuts, look for ambush...

Hello from Oregon. Thought I'd get involved in the community since I'll be hunting alone a lot more now. My son is heading into the Marines. He's a 4 point student, a saxophone player, a wrestler; he could get a free ride anywhere, but he just has that urge to go DO something. So I'll be on my...

True that. We have a walk in Weyerhaeuser permit. But that doesn’t really get very far to finding a herd of elk. i’m thinking of hitting up some private property owners where I have seen some herds. Never done that before, kind of awkward. This could be the last hunt in a long time with my...

You're right. I finally called ODFW. It's just a rule specific to certain tags. Doesn't apply to my son's tag. For example, muzzle loader elk 200 series Cascades: One elk outside all USFS lands. One bull inside all USFS lands. So we're good to go for a cow inside all of the Santiam unit with our...

I understand that. What I have heard is that national forest has different rules for hunting elk versus private land: Such as if you do have a tag there is a minimum number of antlers points the elk has to have. So my question is does this rule negate the ability to hunt cow elk on national...

Hey there. My son drew a cow elk tag for Santiam. We have until about the end of March I believe. I cannot quite remember the rules about antlers and national Forest land. I scoured the regulations but couldn’t find what I was looking for. I believe national Forest land is three-point or better...