MEDFORD, OREGON. If you're going to be a successful hunter, there's one truism that you must understand: even if everything goes right, it can still go wrong. But what happens when everything goes wrong? When everything goes sideways and your original plan goes out the door to such a degree, you feel like curling up into a ball and crying. What do you do then?
My trip to Southern Oregon to chase blacktail deer was one multiple years in the making, as Stark Future's Dan Quick and I had been tossing around an all-electric hunting trip since he used to work for Zero Motorcycles back in the day. This year, however, we were finally putting the plan together.
I'd built my perfect hunting rifle, got it dialed with some long-range help, had just come off the most successful hunt of my career, was fit enough for the rugged, coniferous rainforest-covered mountains of Oregon, and called my friend Robert at Huntin' Fool for some guidance on where to target blacktail. And after months behind the bars of a Varg EX, I felt supremely ready to ride any sort of gnarly terrain. We also secured two Rivian R1Ts to make this a true all-electric hunting trip.
