being new to this site I'm still getting to know the hunters here in my state. I'm curious what units you'll be hunting and for what game? I was also curious if any of you have hunted the Trout Mtn (?) controlled hunt in eastern OR that is traditional only? I've thought about it but I haven't spent much time in that part of the state. I've hunted the Rogue, Dixon, Applegate, Evans Creek, Keno, in the sw, Wilson, Trask, Willamette, and Santiam in the NW, Deshutes, Paulina, Fort Rock and Silver lake in Central. Silvies in East Central, Sled Springs and Desolation in the NE. If your looking for info on any of those units I'd be glad to help as much as I can. Some of them were miserable and some were one time trips. I've done much better than the avg on kills. blacktails I"m running 90%, Elk-Rocky and Rosie I'm running about 70%, Black Bear I'm running about 20%, Antelope 100% Mulies 100% and cougar I'm 0 for 4 in the past 12years. I've actually seen roughly two dozen but I've only had 4 shots and something always happens. Of course one of those misses was when a cat I was tracking decided to lay up in some blackberry bushes until I walked by, I turned just as it pounced and threw my revolver in the general direction and fired scaring her off. The cat was just starting it's jump as I fired otherwise it would have been a wrestling match. All the animals above were taken with a ccmbination fo traditional and modern archery, rifle and my last few blacktails and my last bull were with handguns.