Hunting Oregon's Alsea unit

[Black-tailed bandit]

I know that here is some Oregon guys here, have any of you all hunted the Alsea unit for deer or elk??

 

[Jeff Olsen]

I know that here is some Oregon guys here, have any of you all hunted the Alsea unit for deer or elk??

I've hunted deer in that unit, some. Mostly on the far eastern edges of it. For general blacktail hunting info, Boyd Iverson's book "Blacktail Trophy Tactics" is a great resource. If you are looking for some hotspots, I could get my maps out and try to remember what I found.

-jeff

 

[Black-tailed bandit]

I know that here is some Oregon guys here, have any of you all hunted the Alsea unit for deer or elk??

I've hunted deer in that unit, some. Mostly on the far eastern edges of it. For general blacktail hunting info, Boyd Iverson's book "Blacktail Trophy Tactics" is a great resource. If you are looking for some hotspots, I could get my maps out and try to remember what I found.

-jeff

Jeff,
I have read that book a couple of years ago, I'll have to go get it and read it again. The wife boys and I are going to Newport in a couple of weeks for a spring break camping trip. We are going to go back home on the inland side of th unit, and I get two days of scouting on the way home. I'd appreciate any help you could give me. The hunting in the Saddle Mtn. Scappoose unit has been poor for the last ten years. So we are looking for a new plcae to hunt.

 

[Bigcat_hunter]

I am not sure if its in the Alsea unit but there is a big patch of timberland with lots of clearcuts just before you enter Sweet home. I was there the last weekend of the season and saw lots of deer and one huge buck which disapeared before I could get a shot. I cant remeber the road name but call ODFW and ask about that area.

 

[Jeff Olsen]

I'm going to have to look at a unit map; I may be thinking of the next unit south of Alsea.

In general, though, I kill a lot of blacktail in Oregon by simply getting out in the woods and hunting! It's astounding how lazy most hunters are. If you are willing to bust ass even a LITTLE, it's easy to get into areas that see very little pressure. Even just hiking a mile or two behind locked timber company gates can do it! You'll see a lot of guys driving around in their trucks on the logging roads looking and talking all morose about how bad the "hunting" is (road hunting?) but you will see virtually nobody if you are willing to walk even a half-mile from the nearest road. A quarter mile! It's astounding. Here we are with all this great public land and the public is too lazy to use it.

-jeff

 

[Black-tailed bandit]

I'm going to have to look at a unit map; I may be thinking of the next unit south of Alsea.

In general, though, I kill a lot of blacktail in Oregon by simply getting out in the woods and hunting! It's astounding how lazy most hunters are. If you are willing to bust ass even a LITTLE, it's easy to get into areas that see very little pressure. Even just hiking a mile or two behind locked timber company gates can do it! You'll see a lot of guys driving around in their trucks on the logging roads looking and talking all morose about how bad the "hunting" is (road hunting?) but you will see virtually nobody if you are willing to walk even a half-mile from the nearest road. A quarter mile! It's astounding. Here we are with all this great public land and the public is too lazy to use it.

-jeff

Jeff I agree with you on the road hunting. Up here we got hit with the hair loss real bad, there are a lot less deer here. I hunt the same places as i did and within the last seven years I have been hunting back in Oregon it seem to be less animals here, more or less I'm looking for a place with more animals. I know a lot of real good brush hunter that have been coming back empty handed.