Oregon forest grouse during deer and elk season

[solv3nt]

I recall you could hunt forest grouse in Oregon with a 22lr while hunting for deer or elk. I believe, I may be wrong, that you didn't have to have the upland tag. That said, now that I've got a can, I'm finally intrigued, but I can't find the information.

Am I remembering things wrong, did they change the rules?

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[Bobbygun]

I'm pretty sure you can still hunt grouse with rimfire, but I think you still have to have the upland bird validation on your hunting license. I don't really know whether there was ever a stipulation where the rules were different if you were hunting deer or elk. Sounds like something my dad would have said, but he also used to talk about having a Calapooya license that entitled/enabled/supersized his hunting tags. It was of course completely mythical. (He has been gone long enough that the statutes of limitation have all certainly expired.)

 

[solv3nt]

I'm pretty sure you can still hunt grouse with rimfire, but I think you still have to have the upland bird validation on your hunting license. I don't really know whether there was ever a stipulation where the rules were different if you were hunting deer or elk. Sounds like something my dad would have said, but he also used to talk about having a Calapooya license that entitled/enabled/supersized his hunting tags. It was of course completely mythical. (He has been gone long enough that the statutes of limitation have all certainly expired.)

It would have been like 7 or 8 years ago.

 

[Bobbygun]

It would have been like 7 or 8 years ago.

I guess it's possible. Despite being over 60, I've only started hunting grouse about the last five years. I shot one when I was a little kid, probably 6 or 7 years old, because my dad told me to. I didn't have a license or anything back then, and may not have needed one at so young an age.

 

[oremike]

[22orgb] General Hunting Regulations

Migratory Game Birds: Ducks (including mergansers), geese, coots, snipe, mourning dove, and band-tailed pigeon. Hunter Orange No person younger than 18 years of age shall hunt with any firearm for any game mammal or upland game bird (excluding turkey) unless the person is wearing in a manner…

www.eregulations.com

 

[156256Hunter]

Need an upland bird stamp or endorsement for $10. Has always been that way to my recollection. I probably still have somewhere the actual upland bird stamps from the early 1990s. Page 6 of the current Oregon bird regs gives you the info

 

[solv3nt]

Cool, I've had a bird stamp in the past, so I may have remembered things wrong. Thanks for the info!

 

[2506]

Thems the rules

 

[solv3nt]

Whelp, I just bought my $10 tag. I'll bring my suppressed 22lr next time I'm out.

 

[smoothbore]

I wanted to do some Grouse hunting this year with my 22 cal break barrel air rifle, but I guess that option is out. Stupid rule imo! I guess I can hunt Rabbit and Squirrel with it.

 

[billdeserthills]

Missouri hunter gets two for one

Missouri bowhunter harvests two deer with one shot

A Missouri bowhunter hunter has been credited with the legal harvest of two antlered deer with one shot during archery season. But there’s a catch....

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[drstrangelove]

Suppressed subsonic ammo is always appreciated by other deer hunters in the area.