Persistence pays off

Trail camera photo courtesy of Tom Kress This blacktail buck has its picture taken during a nighttime walk in the foothills a couple miles east of Roseburg. Hunters may find the animals hard to find during daylight hours, but trail cameras show they do exist.

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Trail camera photo courtesy of Tom Kress This blacktail buck and a younger deer were actually up and about during daylight hours. This photo was taken at about 1:30 in the afternoon a few miles east of Roseburg by a trail camera.

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Trail camera photo courtesy of Tom Kress This blacktail buck came up for a close look and had its picture taken by a trail camera a few miles east of Roseburg.

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Photo courtesy of CLINTON BUZZARD Victor Fry, left, and Clinton Buzzard are happy hunters after getting this bull elk back to camp while hunting in mid-September. The two were bowhunting near Powers when Buzzard dropped the animal.

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The hot, dry weather early in the recent hunting seasons didn’t skunk bowhunter Clinton Buzzard and rifle hunter Dave Bell. The two were successful in filling their respective hunting tags. Buzzard took a 6- by 7-point bull elk near Powers and Bell tagged a 3-point blacktail buck in the foothills near Winston. Both Oakland-area hunters were pictured in the recent News-Review online hunting photo contest. A photo of Bell cutting up his venison was titled “Deer, it’s what’s for dinner.” The picture drew the most votes, earning him the first-place prize of a GPS locator from Flying Cloud Trading Co. …