Sage Rat numbers ?

[ron22250]

Hi Everyone,
How's the rat population ? Anyone been out recently and can give some general feedback ?
Thanks !

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[PiratePast40]

Tagged for interest.

 

[Gomer]

I passed through Crane a couple weeks ago and the alfalfa was just about perfect but the rat population didn't look all that spectacular this year. I wasn't able to stop and hunt so that's just in the fields along the highway.

 

[67Chev]

I was near burns/crane on 4/23 for a few days and it didn't seem like years prior. They were small and not as many. It was really windy one of the days and the fields were pretty freshly plowed so I'm sure that didn't help. Normally we go twice a year April and mid May, but I decided to skip the second trip this year.

 

[Member 53328]

Went out to Christmas valley, silver lake, fort rock area the weekend of April 30th. Maybe shot 12 rats over a 3 day period. The worst I've personally experienced. But I have friends who went last weekend and said the shooting was good. I think it really fluctuates depending on weather.

 

[eldbillbo]

I went the first weekend of May central Oregon and I actually had to HUNT them. No close-range slaughter-fest had to take longer shots. I did talk to a rancher in Enterprise who had a problem with them I just was not able to hunt both places and went with the closer one.