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Steep and Deep in the Imnaha
The Imnaha Unit is often overlooked by mule deer hunters. According to the Percentage Tags data (2016 Oregon Tag Guide), 89 percent of hunters with no preference points could have drawn that tag when we did in 2015.
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Whitetails and Black Powder
For his first foray after whitetail deer in northeast Oregon, Shaver had recruited his brothers-in-law, David Harris and Hank Schaffeld, to apply with him. They all drew tags on their first try.
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Easy Draw Any Deer Hunts
Check out these easy-to-draw any deer blackpowder blacktail hunts
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Deer Hunting in Pyke’s Peaks
Deer hunting principles — a look at what it takes to bag a benchleg buck in the Cascades.
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Farm to table on the old Barlow Trail
Gary Lewis, with his Willamette Unit deer tags, goes for a hunt on the old Barlow Trail, hoping to add some meat to Rodney’s farm and table restaurant.
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Holding Low
Steep and deep in the poison oak. It was a long shot, but the teenager knew enough to hold off the deer at that range.
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The Good Old Days in Blacktail Country
“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will…
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Desert Country Deer for a Hunter with a Hawken
The 2012 Oregon Big Game Regulations are on the stands at sporting goods stores all over the state. There are some new hunts, but what fires my imagination are the controlled 100 series muzzleloader seasons that recall the days of early Oregon. We read about the western migration and picture the wagon trains headed toward…
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Zorro and Poncho in the High Not-so-Lonesome
It was the only tree on a windswept plain. I ducked my head under a branch. James Flaherty, watching my heels, weighed down with most of a mule deer on his back, didn’t. The 300-year-old tree extended a rapier-pointed limb and carved a zigzag scratch on the lucky hunter’s forehead. Henceforth, we called him Zorro.…
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Hunt Trophy-Class Columbia Blacktails
If there’s one animal on the West Coast that frustrates hunters more than any other, it is the Columbian blacktail deer. A big blacktail buck may be one of North America’s toughest antlered trophies. Here’s a late-season rut hunt in one of Oregon’s top blacktail units that offers an opportunity to look at a lot…
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Gary has been deer hunting in Oregon for over 20 years, and his experience has led to several books, including the newest edition of Hunting Oregon (pictured to the right). Gary has also written hundreds of articles on deer hunting in Oregon, which we provide for you here.