Oregon Expectations

[BlacktailTracker]

This is way cooler to me than a younger 4 point.

How many people have a 28” wide fork? Plenty of people have 160 4 points. Shit deer are cool to me.

Dang that's sweet.

 

[Oregon]

Everyone has a different expectation. I can’t bring back the good old days. I live in reality. If you’re mad at them. You will find a good one. Got a guy in camp still mad at them. He kills 170-180 every time he has a tag. He leaving camp at 0400 coming back at 1900. Sleeping on the hill at lunch. Putting 14-16 miles a day on his feet. Us older guys, who have plenty of good bucks are putting 3-4 miles a day and content with 22” bucks anymore.
I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again. If you aren’t mad at them, you won’t consistently kill good bucks. Mulies or Blacktails.

 

[BRTreedogs]

This is way cooler to me than a younger 4 point.

How many people have a 28” wide fork? Plenty of people have 160 4 points. Shit deer are cool to me.

I’m not trying to say anything bad about your deer.
I just think a hunt where the top end is 160 is a major regression in Oregon
It should be better than that.

We used to be a B&C contender.

If you want to shoot another big fork you can do it from my sliding door while sipping hot coco tho.

 

[BRTreedogs]

Here’s another.

 

[WRO]

I’m not trying to say anything bad about your deer.
I just think a hunt where the top end is 160 is a major regression in Oregon
It should be better than that.

We used to be a B&C contender.

If you want to shoot another big fork you can do it from my sliding door while sipping hot coco tho.
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Fact is most of the nation is 160/170 top end hunt, there’s very few places left where there’s truly big deer, none have easy tags on public land.

 

[BRTreedogs]

Fact is most of the nation is 160/170 top end hunt, there’s very few places left where there’s truly big deer, none have easy tags on public land.

Just because that’s all that’s left doesn’t make it good.

 

[WRO]

Just because that’s all that’s left doesn’t make it good.

Agreed..

But through that lens’s it puts it in perspective, it seemed like I’d find a 200+ deer every couple years in the early 2000s, besides the pauns, in haven’t seen 5 in the last decade even on the winter range.