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Projecting your homo-erotic fantasies....telling.

In your dreams, moosebreath

OP,
In Oregon you can hunt on your land if it’s 40 acres or bigger. But that’s only doe and cow elk.

To hunt bucks and bull elk you need minimum of 160 acres to get LOP (land owner preference) tags. And you get 2. It’s all in the regs, On ODFW.
IMHO 160 acres parcel is pretty small parcel for elk.
I’d want at least 1/2 square mile (320) if not whole square mile (640 acres)but that’s going to cost you. Especially in good elk country
Good luck
Dte

CO does not differentiate between res and nonres for OTC bull tags. Anybody can buy one. OTC tags are unlimited tags and CO would rather sell them to a nonres than a res because nonres are a lot higher in price.

I grew up in CO and killed a lot of elk on OTC tags. But now that I am a resident of TX I dont bother with OTC. I would rather work the draw for elk tags

I've got a cow 4 years in a row in an Idaho OTC late cow hunt. The tags are capped, 1st come, 1st served. The past few years, we haven't had any problem getting them but this year is going to be different. Our hunt 2 years ago had 2500 tags and last year it was down to 700 but we still got in. It's still 700 this year but the hunt next door dropped from 2500 to 500. There's going to be an extra 2000 hunters trying for those 700.
We get them at a local hardware store. The store starts a list the day before and has all the hunter info written out in order of when you get on the list. When they go on sale, the IDFG turns on the computer and the gal at the store types furiously to get as many tags done as possible before they run out. She doesn't pause to take money. She puts them in a pile and we sort it out after the list is done.

A lovely story.......and you told it so well.

Hoping you get a tag (and fill) to your last year.