Lights in Oregon???

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soreloser

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I'm heading to Eastern Oregon to meet up with a Marine Corps buddy of mine and do a week of hunting/visiting.

Can someone give me the low down on the use of lights. What can you take with a light, how many volts, attached to vehicle, etc. All the good info that will keep me out of trouble.

I'm having trouble finding the information on the Oregon DFW website.

Tim
 
i dont think you can use lights to hunt with, some of my friends were over by fort rock in their alfalfa, and a ranger came up and gave them all tickets for spotlighting even though they didnt have guns, they just were looking at the wildlife. becareful!!
 
I was reading or trying to read the Furbearers regs and it says that BobCats can be taken with a light as long as it's not attached or cast from a vehicle..

What about license requirments, do I just need a regular non-resident?
 
If your on private land you can spot light predators.
Coons and bobcat can be spotlighted when in season with a hand held light on public land.

Gary
 
7wsmsav4yotes, I don't understand all the laws nowadays. How can a Ranger write you up for a F&G violation? Do they know all the DFG rules too?
Pretty soon the tree huggers well be able to write you up for DFG violations.
 
i have no clue what was going on. my friend also is kind of oblivious as to who was writing the tickets. it probly was a F@G ( haha ) officer. your right about the greenies being able to write ya up, its coming.
 
We now have the law enforcement division of the forest service running around with bulletproof vest and glocks and writing tickets.


Gary
 
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Oh boy just what we need, an outdoors Gestapo. What is this country coming to?
I can see it now, Smoky Bear and his buddys arrest campers for drinking beer around a camp fire in the National Forest.......It's coming.
 
"Prohibited methods: Use an artificial light for hunting any wildlife, except raccoon, bobcat, and opossum provided the light is not cast from or attached to a motor vehicle."
No person shall: Cast an artificial light from a motor vehicle while in possession of a weapon ; or cast an artificial light upon a game mammal, predatory animal, or livestock from within 500 feet of a motor vehicle while in possession of a weapon. EXCEPTION; Landowners or their agents hunting predatory animals on land they own or lawfully occupy.

It seems to me that they can fight their ticket if they did not violate these rules. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
drinking beer around the campfire ?? unheard of...NO you better not spotlight coyotes...or flashlight..or whatever...thats bad medicine...
 
today while i was at work in compton ca. a game warden went by code 3 and pulled a small pickup over and wrote them up for somthing?? no hunting or fishing anywhere close!! can a warden write traffic tickets on the road???
 
Don't forget you need to have a Fur Bearer's license to hunt Bobcat. Then at the end of the season you have to sent ODFW a report of how many day hunted,animals taken,etc. A lot of red tape. If you don't send them your report, you don't get a license the next year. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
These are the key words

EXCEPTION; Landowners or their agents hunting predatory animals on land they own or lawfully occupy.

I just moved out of the PNW and hunted at night in Oregon. Fight the ticket it is a slam dunk if the owned the property or are agents of the landowner. All you have to do is have permission.
 
The 2006 Oregon Regulations state:

Neither landowners nor their agents need a permit from ODFW to spotlight predatory animals (as defined in ORS 610.002) on land they own or lawfully occupy. ODA has authority to define "agent" for the purposes of the predatory animal statute. Written documentation is not required.

Looks like the ODA decides if you are an "agent" or not!
 
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From what I know it used to be that way but changed to a verbal a couple of years ago. I would check witht the local game warden to be sure though. I learned all about that at the OHA meetings. Good source of info from those guy's!
 
Cougerbait,
I found some more info but what does it mean when it says:
ODA has the authority to define who is an agent.????
 
You would have to ask them. It is a loop hole like they have in every thing that I would imagine. just like the common speed law there. The information that I got was from a game warden in Oregon. I all ways had his name and number on me while out hunting there. And what I said was the way he said it to me 2 years ago.
 
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