Bighorn Sheep?
12-21-2017, 01:23 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Central VT/Big Horn WY
Posts: 1,543
Bighorn Sheep?
Who has hunted them? Let’s see some pictures and here where you got them.
I would love to get one, but it will never happen. Draw tags are rare and outfitted hunts are way out of my budget. Cool animal though.
I would love to get one, but it will never happen. Draw tags are rare and outfitted hunts are way out of my budget. Cool animal though.
12-21-2017, 02:28 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
I've hunted both sheep and goat in my native CO. Sheep in 1986 and goat in 2001.
Fun animals to hunt but I have no desire to shoot another of either. They are specialized game and one is enough. I'd rather let someone else get one than shoot another for myself. For what it is worth I also got a stone sheep in the extreme northern part of British Columbia but they are way out of my price range now.
Fun animals to hunt but I have no desire to shoot another of either. They are specialized game and one is enough. I'd rather let someone else get one than shoot another for myself. For what it is worth I also got a stone sheep in the extreme northern part of British Columbia but they are way out of my price range now.
12-21-2017, 03:44 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
Not the best mount. Back then I was early in my navy career and didn't have much $$$ for taxidermy. Went with a guy who was cheap. Learned an important lesson. The neck is too skinny and a little too long. I think he used a form that wasn't a sheep form.
I could probably get it re-mounted but most likely never will. Had a good set of horns and good color on the cape and the cape may not be wide enough now for a proper form and I don't want to put a cape from a sheep I didn't take on it. The whitetail is a PA deer I got on a hunt with a really good friend of mine. In that area of PA the deer don't get real big due to pressure and that buck taped 18 inches on the spread. He'd been fighting and broke a couple of points so I had him done as is to honor his fighting spirit.
12-23-2017, 06:41 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SW Montana
Posts: 550
I was lucky enough have lived in Montana back when we could buy an Unlimited area bighorn ram tag every year for $25. The seasons opened the first of September and if the quota wasn't filled, it lasted through November. Back then I didn't realize how good that deal was and I would usually just go for a long first weekend hunt.
It took me several years to figure out where the rams were, but I finally ended up filling three ram tags. The late 70s and 80s were good to me as I was also able to fill a couple of Montana Shiras bull moose tags and a mountain goat tag. And I got all of those animals within 100 miles of my home.
About 20 years ago, an outfitter friend called me about a cancellation Dall ram hunt in the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories. It was a fly-in backpack hunt, and I ended up getting a great ram, a good Mountain caribou, and a Wolverine.
Mountain sheep hunting is some of the best hunting in the world!
I can't post pictures from this computer, but I will after the holidays.
Merry Christmas to all!
It took me several years to figure out where the rams were, but I finally ended up filling three ram tags. The late 70s and 80s were good to me as I was also able to fill a couple of Montana Shiras bull moose tags and a mountain goat tag. And I got all of those animals within 100 miles of my home.
About 20 years ago, an outfitter friend called me about a cancellation Dall ram hunt in the Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories. It was a fly-in backpack hunt, and I ended up getting a great ram, a good Mountain caribou, and a Wolverine.
Mountain sheep hunting is some of the best hunting in the world!
I can't post pictures from this computer, but I will after the holidays.
Merry Christmas to all!
Last edited by buffybr; 12-23-2017 at 06:51 AM.
