Originally Posted by Bighorn
This is my Stone ram, taken a few years ago when a nonresident hunt cost only(!) around $14.5K. Shot it near the top of a peak in BC, not far from the Yukon Territory boundary. Not archery, but with my trusty Wby. .257.

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That's a stud of a ram right there. I did the same thing as stevevan1 pretty much. I'd dreamed about the NWT since I was a kid. My father always talked about and did go to Africa 8 times, but everything I wanted to hunt, and still want to hunt, was above the Canadian border. Sheep, Caribou, Mt. goat, mule deer, elk, moose, etc. I worked my tail off and finally was able to book a hunt with Gana River in 1995 at 36 years old. A 10 day backpack hunt for Dall sheep and caribou. It was the hunt of a lifetime because there is no way I can afford those prices now. It was half what it is now. It's crazy. I did take a nice 36-1/2 x 13 Dall, but never found the caribou I wanted. We only saw a few raghorns and I was determined to get one that scored over 400".

For me, there is not a more beautiful animal than the wild sheep and the country they inhabit. My preference is Dall, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Stone sheep, and then Desert Bighorn. Alas, my days of sheep hunting are pretty much over having had a hip replacement this past summer. I don't imagine I'll ever get to goat hunt either, but I'm looking at trying to book a caribou hunt for probably 2020 so maybe I can at least get one off my bucket list.

We have free ranging aoudad in west Texas. I had a mule deer lease north of Van Horn for about 30 years and we killed a bunch of them. Mainly because the TPWD biologist said to kill everyone of them you see since they compete with the mule deer for food. I'm not on that lease anymore, but my current lease has them in the area as well as free roaming barbado/mouflon cross roaming around. My .257 Roberts loves to eat them.

The lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part!