The Izee Squirrel Shoot...

[NeoBlackdog]

Did any of you folks ever attend the Izee squirrel shoot? They stopped holding them in the late '70's I think it was...
Anybody?

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[North Plains]

Izee Oregon?

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Izee Oregon?

Yep. SW of John Day.

 

[North Plains]

We deer hunted out of there for years.late 70s was before time

 

[North Plains]

I have book with a chapter on the izee sheep shooters. Pretty rough back in the day. They didn't just shoot the sheep.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

My best friend's family owned and managed a couple of the ranches out there where the squirrel shoot was held. I used to go out and help during the shoot and also during deer and elk season when they'd run a guide service. Pete Kershaw of Kershaw Knives used to come out and hunt with us. Great guy!
It was interesting to me watching those fellas dressed in their mountain man garb shooting and collecting the ground squirrels trying to win first prize. Good times, for sure!
I heard a bit about the sheep shootin' from his grandpa. Rough folks!

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

They used to have one every May in Surprise Valley, just over the hills from Alturas, CA. I can't recall the official name of it, but the unofficial name was "Squirrel Wars".

 

[North Plains]

So you were on the old officer ranch? Before izee bought it?

 

[NeoBlackdog]

So you were on the old officer ranch? Before izee bought it?

Yep. Is 'Izee' the corporation that owns it now? Back then it was the '45' ranch, which the Officers owned and also the Diamond Bar which the Officers managed.

 

[North Plains]

Yes izee ranch owns it now. I assume it's a corporation. Everything is all fixed up and color coordinated lol

 

[Mark W.]

Is not Izee the company town completely gone? Are you talking about something else?

 

[North Plains]

The ranch house on the corner when you turn south to burns has been izee ranch as long as I've been going there. Officers was next then rickmans. Rickmans is now Taurus ranch. As far a izee being a town that must have been before my time.

 

[Cavedweller]

As far a izee being a town that must have been before my time.

There was a logging community there at one time. Wikipedia says the post office operated until 1954. I had a numbered print of the view down main street which I found in a thrift store somewhere. According to a short history of the town which was pasted to the back, the houses were dismantled for building materials, which as I recall were shipped to Albany. The print hung on the wall of my BOL until some arsehole broke in and stole it from me in 2018. Sic transit gloria mund.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

The ranch house on the corner when you turn south to burns has been izee ranch as long as I've been going there. Officers was next then rickmans. Rickmans is now Taurus ranch. As far a izee being a town that must have been before my time.

Sounds like you knew it pretty well, North Plains! I believe some of the best times of my life were spent right there on Officer's place.

 

[nehalemguy]

Is not Izee the company town completely gone? Are you talking about something else?

Are you confusing that with Kinzua in Wheeler County?

-E-

 

[Mark W.]

Are you confusing that with Kinzua in Wheeler County?

-E-

Nope the company owned town of Izee all the buildings were barn red and about 20 years ago I heard the owned bulldozed the whole place as he was tired of chasing hippies out.

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[NeoBlackdog]

Nope the company owned town of Izee all the buildings were barn red and about 20 years ago I heard the owned bulldozed the whole place as he was tired of chasing hippies out.

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That ain't Izee. I don't know where it is, but I never saw anything like that in all the years I was out there.

 

[North Plains]

Maybe your thinking of the old Ellis mill just up the road to dayville??? It's been gone since at least 1990.

 

[North Plains]

Blackgog. We should talk more. I'm over east getting ready for elk opener on Wednesday. So maybe in a week or two.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Blackgog. We should talk more. I'm over east getting ready for elk opener on Wednesday. So maybe in a week or two.

I'm just outside of Kalispell. Though I used to live in La Grande. Moved about 1.5 years ago.
Where ya plannin' to hunt? (PM me)