SPORTS
East Oregonian
B2
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Easy tags and a homebuilt muzzleloader
GARY
LEWIS
ON THE TRAIL
H
e called me two
days before the
controlled hunt
application deadline last
spring. He had so many
elk points. He had so many
deer points. He had so many
antelope points. And he was
getting close to 70 years old.
What was a boy to do with
those points, he wanted to
know. I had some ideas, but
he had to make decisions
quick.
“But Gary, I don’t have a
muzzleloader.”
No big deal, I told him.
I’ll fi nd one for you.
In June we drew our
antelope tags and as I was
wondering what I was going
to give my friend Winfi eld
and what gun my daughter
was going to hunt with, my
phone rang. Another friend
said he had two muzzle-
loader kits and I could have
them if I would build them.
Quick as that, I had another
shop project. My daugh-
ter and I started on the two
rifl es side by side — 50-cali-
Dance:
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been more than 70 in a fresh-
man class and some less than
20.
“We are ready for the next
crop of kids,” Malinowski
said.
OCU’s dance program
was founded in 1980 by
Rowan and her husband John
Bedford. In 2019, the Ann
Lacy School of American
Dance and Entertainment
was ranked No. 5 in the top
10 schools for dance.
While dance doesn’t reso-
nate with people like football
or basketball, Malinowski
said the dancers put in the
same amount of hard work as
the mainstream athletes.
“The amount of hours we
dance a day here is as many
or more as other athletes put
into their sport,” she said.
“That’s why our program is
so acclaimed.”
Burk’s favorite style of
dance is contemporary,
and her long-term goal is to
perform, direct and manage
shows.
Getting an early start
Burk has been dancing
since she was 3 years old,
though not seriously until she
was a little older.
“I was born and raised,
for the most part, in Durant,
Oklahoma,” she said. “My
mom is from here and I went
to school in Hermiston from
kindergarten through fifth
grade.”
When she returned to
Oklahoma, she danced from
sixth grade through her
junior year in high school at
the Access Dance Company.
With a rigorous dance sched-
ule, she did most of her
schooling online.
Burk told her mom
(Tawna Moody) that she
wanted a more normal senior
year with her friends, so back
Gary Lewis/Contributed Photo
Mikayla Lewis with the big public lands buck she took last season with a muzzleloader she
built for herself.
ber Traditions Deerhunter
kits like those available
from La Grande-based
muzzle-loaders.com for
$319 each.
Over the summer, my
daughter and I completed
the rifl es. We sighted-in at
the beginning of August
and by the end of the month
we were in the fi eld. My
24-year-old daughter tagged
to Hermiston they came.
“Before I moved back here,
I was in competitive dance,”
Burk said. “We would travel
to competitions and conven-
tions. You would perform and
have workshop classes. That’s
where my love for dance came
from — running on E and
enjoying it. Those are some
of my favorite moments.”
The move back to Hermis-
ton has allowed Burk to enjoy
the little things.
“I wanted to be involved in
my school and go to basket-
ball and football games,”
she said. “It’s kind of nice to
be able to support the other
sports. It has been a cool
experience.”
Burk also is a big part of
the Hermiston dance team.
At the recent district champi-
onships, the team placed fi rst
in jazz, second in show and
fourth in Hip Hop. They will
compete at state March 29 at
the SunDome in Yakima.
“We’ve done really well
this year and hope to continue
that at state,” Burk said. “We
are a cohesive team, which
makes it fun. It has been a
really fun experience. It’s
nice being at a bigger school
and having the opportunity
to have a dance team, and a
good one.”
The team practices
every weekday morning
from 5:30-7 a.m., and it has
frequent eight-hour practices
on the weekend.
“We have state in three
weeks,” Stephens said. “We
are really excited. We have
some adjustments to make.
Hip Hop in Washington is
very competitive.”
Like everyone, Burk had
to audition for the team, and
each style they perform.
“She made all of them,”
Stephens said. “She is a hard
worker and challenges me as
a coach. I give her something,
she masters it and wants more.
She excels in so many styles,
which is hard to fi nd. She’s a
rock star.”
the biggest trophy of her
hunting career when the
herd buck put on the brakes
in front of us at 41 yards. She
dropped the book she was
reading and in one quick,
smooth motion, cocked the
gun and fi red. When the
smoke cleared we saw the
trophy pronghorn stretched
out before us, felled by a
275-grain conical from her
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thinking cap on might also
apply for a Baker Muzzle-
loader (151M) tag for a
November whitetail deer
season opportunity while
hunting elk.
For a nine-day bull elk
hunt, consider the Eagle Cap
Muzzleloader (260M). This
year, Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife off ers
55 tags. Nine days is a good
long hunt and enough time
to pattern animals and get
close to herds.
Maybe you don’t have a
muzzleloader. That’s easy
to fi x.
Try to fi nd a 50- to
54-caliber muzzleloader
with at least a 28-inch barrel.
If it’s a traditional sidelock,
you can upgrade the sights
to adjustable irons, a peep or
even to fi ber optics.
Plan about 24 hours
for the build, working on
evenings and weekends.
With spring around the
corner, the May 15 big game
application deadline in view
and one or two easy-draw
tags in your future, you can
start scouting now.
———
Gary Lewis is the author
of “Fishing Central Oregon,”
“Oregon Lake Maps and
Fishing Guide” and other
titles. To contact Gary, visit
www.garylewisoutdoors.com.
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home-built muzzleloader.
After a celebratory
antelope camp dinner, my
daughter headed for the
taxidermist and the butcher
block with her buck. The rest
of us toughed it out in the
desert for the next four days.
I missed a buck downhill at
100 yards and Winfi eld had
his chances too.
Not only did we burn our
powder last year, I burned
my deer tag too and with
only one point to count
toward the elk drawings, I
fi nd myself in the unenviable
position of searching the big
game regulations for easy-
draw muzzleloader hunts.
What’s a boy to do?
Because muzzleloader
hunters are a small minority
in Oregon’s hunting commu-
nity, sometimes the oppor-
tunities go overlooked. This
year, two deer hunts look
like they could be drawn
with zero or one preference
point. The Grande Ronde
(152M) hunt runs Nov.
14-27, when whitetails are in
the breeding season.
Another option is the
Sled Springs Unit muzzle-
loader hunt (157M) which
runs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 11.
Be careful when applying
for this one as Sled Springs
has a lower percentage of
public land and the deer are
more likely to be found in
the valleys. The bag limit for
both hunts is one whitetail
deer.
For elk, check out the
Elkhorn 1 (251M1) and
Elkhorn 2 (251M2) off erings
in the Sumpter Unit. The fi rst
season runs Aug. 1 to Oct. 15
and the second season runs
Oct. 15 to Dec. 31. A fron-
tiersman with his coonskin
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