Oregon

[primal.wanderings]

I'm looking into hunting the west side of Oregon this year just because I don't have that much time off this year and it's the closest place to me where I can hunt elk OTC. I know that it's gonna be steep and thick but I'd like to know more about the weather, terrain, and elk behaviour from people who have actually hunted it. My thought is to take off for four day weekends this fall so I can drive up Fridays and hunt til Mondays and drive home, that way I can really max my time in the woods this fall. Please shoot me a PM if you have info that you're willing to share. Thanks everyone!

 

[beez33]

Are you bow hunting or rifle?

 

[primal.wanderings]

Bow hunting

 

[beez33]

The weather early bow season is typically hot. The closer you get to the coast the cooler it can be. Can be foggy if near the coast as well. Sounds like you got the terrain down, thick and brushy. My experience with rosey's is they don't roam around that much. Bugle to locate and hit the brush even though it looks ugly. If you haven't already watch Born and Raised and Elk 101 Oregon parts. Shows pretty good what you are up against.

 

[primal.wanderings]

Thanks for the info. Yeah I've already seen the BRO and Destinbation Elk series when they were in Oregon, it's definitely different than hunting the American elk that are further inland. What kind of temperatures are you observing in the early season? Does it get close to 100 degrees, or is it more like 80-90's?

 

[beez33]

Typically 80-90's inland. 70's 80's closer to the coast in northwest Oregon. I haven't spent much time in southwest Oregon but would imagine its a little warmer. Usually get a rain shower or two in September. Private timber companies will close down there land for fire danger, keep that in mind. Others you have to buy a permit when they go on sale around June.

 

[primal.wanderings]

Another question, what's the deal with having to pay money to hunt some of the timber companys' land? How exactly would you go about doing that, is there a place online where you can pay for a permit or something?

 

[slick]

It’s private land, they don’t technically have to give out permission, but because some companies own so much land it would become sanctuaries for critters, and the timber companies are too keen on allowing elk to munch through all their baby trees so they allow access for a few hundo.

I think you’ve gotta go in person to their HQ, but I could be wrong. Haven’t done it personally. Thinking about it this year

 

[Smitty]

The Weyerhaeuser permits are available in late spring, month of May usually, and can be purchased through this link https://www.wyrecreationnw.com/leases

 

[primal.wanderings]

The Weyerhaeuser permits are available in late spring, month of May usually, and can be purchased through this link https://www.wyrecreationnw.com/leases

I just took a look at the website in the link. Unless I'm mistaken I don't think those have anything to do with land in Oregon.

 

[beez33]

They have a lot of land in Oregon. Some permits and some leases. Poke around on the website smitty posted. Other timber companies will let you on with no fee if it's not in fire danger.

 

[Smitty]

Look under the Permit tab, click on the State tab, select Oregon.. there were 11 permits for sale in 2018.

 

[blackdog]

Look under the Permit tab, click on the State tab, select Oregon.. there were 11 permits for sale in 2018.

That's not really accurate. There were 11 different sections of land you could get permits for, with each having its own number of permits sold. Some sections had hundreds of permits. This year's permits as stated above aren't updated yet but the Coos Bay unit had nearly 250 permits left over last year for motorized access.

 

[Smitty]

Correct, 11 sections of land. My bad

 

[andrewevanmace]

300$ for motorized access and 75$ for non motorized access on the weyerhauser site. They have not gone on sale yet. you will have to cross reference the map they provide with google earth or onx or whatever map your using.

 

[primal.wanderings]

Oh ok got it! I wasn’t seeing it the first time. Thanks!

 

[Dustin the wind]

Private timber land is the biggest obstacle to hunting the Oregon Coast. The ones that are not permitted are mostly closed gates. You can just stick to national forest or blm and not worry about it at all. Some of my best hunting was completely on public land on the coast but usually you are pushing brush. Weather can be awesome or it can rain for 4 days straight opening day with cold. Our better luck has come more towards the end of season as the rut gets closer but unfortunately odfw moved the season up a week so not sure that will matter at all now. Best bet is to get into deep dark terrain and cut elk highways/sign, hopefully it's fresh and you can just live in that area until you get lucky. There are a lot of elk, you just have to get into the places nobody wants to go. If I was still hunting the coast I would just hit some nat forest roads and drop down finger ridges and back up until I find good sign and just keep sneaking in and out.

 

[Brucebarker024]

Be prepared to put in miles on logging roads and going straight up and down. It’s so thick in there but it’s beautiful country.


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[JoeDirt]

Saw these guys the last week of bear season SW Oregon. They were on the edge of public and private. I see more elk on public land in SW Oregon than I do in NW Oregon

 

[JD1010]

You can get hot weather, rain, fog, drizzle all with in a couple days. It is steep, can be nasty, but there are a lot of elk on the coast. From what I have noticed the are kinda territorial, don’t move a bunch. So if you get a response, Hunt that bull. God videos to watch are ASP ( Angry spike Productions) they hunt Oregon and coast and SW Washington. Can give you an idea of what expect. My 2 cents$