Hunting & Fishing WA/OR Duel state hunting.

[Nysios]

I am Oregon state resident and have been since I was born. I am also Active duty military about to be stationed in Washington. According to Washington Hunting regulations any active duty military stationed in Washington can purchase resident tags. So can anyone think of any legitimate reasons I can not hunt both states this year at the same time? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[rcnpthfndr]

you should have no issues, had a buddy from bend that did that quite often

 

[Nysios]

Awesome thank you. Just didn't want any surprises at the counter trying to buy tags. I couldn't find anything about it in either Oregon or Washington hunting regulations.

 

[hognuts]

I would definitely check it out with your Department of Wildlife before you "just do it". My cousins "not military" got popped for that in South Dakota/Wyoming for having dual resident tags....and they weren't even hunting tags. They had South Dakota residency (and did hunt in South Dakota with resident tags) and one of them bought a fishing liscence in Wyoming, where they work and one of them owned a house. The fishing liscence was bought using a South Dakota drivers liscence, but the clerk sold him a Wyoming resident fishing liscence...that triggered a "red flag" then when they did their investigation they saw that they were working in Wyoming and One of them had purchased a house and in said paperwork declared it to be their "primary residence".

They plea bargained to get a minimal fine and a one year suspension of hunting privledges. There may be special provisions for military personnel, but I would want to get it straight from the horses mouth...would suck to get a forced vacation from hunting!!! (We didn't cut them any slack either, we informed them that we still needed gutters and draggers in camp that year!!!

 

[B3dlam]

Military guy here as well. As long as you maintain your home of record in Oregon you are an oregon resident you dont give up any rights of being an oregon resident. Washington also allows you to get resident permits there as long as you have PCS orders to WA. I dont think you have anything to worry about. I currently get all the resident benifts where hunting is concerened here in Alaska even though I maintain Washington as my home of residency. I would consider hunting in washington if plane tickets werent in the $1200+ range just to come home and visit.

 

[Nysios]

Thanks bedlam. That is the impression I was under. I have always been an Oregon resident and still pay taxes there. I just really want to double tap hunting this year. I have several deployments to make up for =)

 

[Beepy]

well.... I don't now how the seasons are working out this year, but..... I used to hunt in the Blue Mountains on the WA side, but the hunt was always one week before OR... so the elk just walked across the border and laughed at us.

Don't know if the Blue Mt herd has recovered from the fire several years ago though...

 

[RyanScott]

Thanks bedlam. That is the impression I was under. I have always been an Oregon resident and still pay taxes there. I just really want to double tap hunting this year. I have several deployments to make up for =)

The cheap thing to do would be to move your address of record to WA so you don't have to pay income taxes.

 

[Nysios]

I pay income taxes but get every penny back during tax season. Its a good savings plan that gets me a new gun every January to start the year off right =)