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drannan
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I just read Robinsg61le thread called good Oregon bull. That's about how I hunt, and this year was the first tag I have ever drawn in the Oregon lottery!
We hunted hard all week and found a few good ones, including one we figured was 355. I didn't hunt him for 3 days and when we did, we spent 3 more days looking for him, but never could. We saw lots of bulls, but no huge ones. Finally on Thursday night I decided to try to shoot a 7x6 that we had found and spent all day Friday waiting for him to come out. We worked into a spot that was 531 yards from where he spent all day Thursday....when he finally popped out right before dark he was 2 fingers over, at 704 yards. We checked the wind and talked it over and decided to do it.
I watched my first shot start drifting right around 500 yards and it hit him hard about 8 inches back. My buddy saw it too and said to hold 1 minute left and hit him again. I did and watched that shot explode the dirt about 1 inch above his shoulder. My buddy saw it too and said to hold a minute left and a minute low to account for the wind and my 3rd and final shot hit him square in the shoulder and he rolled down the hill aways.
We got over to way after dark and I had already decided not to shoulder mount it, so I didn't spend any time caping it. We got out about 1am and got the rest of the meat the next day.
I had a great hunt, I do think the 12 year wait was worth it. It will be a few years until we hunt the good Oregon units again though.
We hunted hard all week and found a few good ones, including one we figured was 355. I didn't hunt him for 3 days and when we did, we spent 3 more days looking for him, but never could. We saw lots of bulls, but no huge ones. Finally on Thursday night I decided to try to shoot a 7x6 that we had found and spent all day Friday waiting for him to come out. We worked into a spot that was 531 yards from where he spent all day Thursday....when he finally popped out right before dark he was 2 fingers over, at 704 yards. We checked the wind and talked it over and decided to do it.
I watched my first shot start drifting right around 500 yards and it hit him hard about 8 inches back. My buddy saw it too and said to hold 1 minute left and hit him again. I did and watched that shot explode the dirt about 1 inch above his shoulder. My buddy saw it too and said to hold a minute left and a minute low to account for the wind and my 3rd and final shot hit him square in the shoulder and he rolled down the hill aways.
We got over to way after dark and I had already decided not to shoulder mount it, so I didn't spend any time caping it. We got out about 1am and got the rest of the meat the next day.
I had a great hunt, I do think the 12 year wait was worth it. It will be a few years until we hunt the good Oregon units again though.
