texas free range sheep

[slamquest]

Have read about free range armenian mouflan and red sheep hunts on the Clayton Williams. How can these be truly free range and these animals not expanded their range like the aoudadad have

[salukipv1]

free range simply means free to roam where ever they want to...

[npaden]

The only reason Aoudad have expanded their range is because landowners are managing them as a resource. They don't go out and shoot them on sight although they legally could.

Maybe the neighbors don't want the armenian mouflan and red sheep around so they shoot them whenever they see them.

There are some free ranging elk in the Davis Mountains as well. Some of the ranches in that area are huge, tens of thousands of acres is just a start.

If the elk move off too far they get shot because they are an exotic and it is open season on them 24/7/365 just like feral hogs.

It's interesting that the landowners have seemed to do a better job managing for auodad in Texas where they are considered an exotic and can be shot 24/7/365 than New Mexico does managing them as a game animal (they are Barbary sheep in New Mexico).

[slamquest]

Far better response than the first reply. For the record i have hunted the aoudad in texas, the people i hunted with claim to have access to free range mouflon but not red sheep. The red sheep are native to iran and that means off limits to the u.s. Hunter. I just can't swallow the $10,500 dollar pill to hunt the red sheep on the clayton williams ranch with rowdy mcbride without exploring all my options