One of the biggest issues that occurred during my recent blacktail deer hunt was that we were basically stuck to moving across Oregon's massive public lands by foot. Don't get me wrong, I love a good heavily-armed hike, but going to a new spot like Southern Oregon, where the mountains are steep, and the woods are thick, well, that's not a recipe for true success.
And while the original plan would've solved that, i.e., taking the Stark Vargs off the trailer to rip around the woods, the weather in fall was not conducive to that plan at all. Rain turned to snow, snow turned to ice, and ice then turned to warm weather and muddy puddles on the last day, the only time I could take the Vargs into the woods.
While I still maintain the Starks were great at sneaking up on deer, their use case for a Southern Oregon fall in what amounts to a coniferous rainforest wasn't the best planning on my part. What I should've done is what Jody Smith, the man behind Jody Smith Guide Service who was just up the road from where we were, does. And that's rely on something like his Can-Am Defender, which is showcased in this awesome conservation and hunt film by Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
