Oryx -- long term (?) strategy

[stubborn-dose]

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[roadrunner]

We just finished up an off range for Nov that my wife had.

It has definitely changed over the past 20 years or so we've been doing it. The addition of tags over the last 2 years has had an impact, not from an increased "tag filling" standpoint but from a hunting pressure standpoint. Also add in that people can't keep their mouths shut on public media platforms like Facebook and Instagram on where to go.

We had our chances, one successful stalk but missed opportunity when it moved in behind some brush and disappeared into a low spot, shot and a miss on another successful stalk, miss via road hunting from point A to point B, messed up opportunity from some jokers in an SUV, and finally a hit and loss.

We hunted a total of 11 days off and on. The final being 5 days straight during Thanksgiving week.

I agree with the statement about dedicating a week and hunting hard like you would anything else.

@justin davis - the better months off range I've hunted have been Jan, Feb, March.

 

[Mojave]

You need a lot of time working the fringes of WSMR without criminal trespassing federal military installation. I have hunted those hunts with friends, and I never apply for them as I don't like the way they work. Any oryx off range is a great oryx.

I would warn anyone hunting off -range oryx to know that WSMR has 24 security federal police officers on duty all over the range.

 

[WRO]

I put my daughter in for an off range hunt and she drew a tag for next March. Sounds like the off range hunts can be very tough. I didn’t realize it was that tough of a hunt. Hopefully we can find some Orxy for her

They’re not that tough, we saw them every day. Just get high, glass, cover a lot of ground and be willing to track.