TPWD tried to hire the trapper that came to be our ranch manager to work Black Gap , but they wanted him to work for a salary. He offered to work there for a bounty but they turned him down. He and his father are considered my most to be the best lion trappers in Texas.
I don’t know how much they spent moving the Bighorns from Elephant Butte to Black Gap, but I know helicopters don’t work cheap. Their “ investment” of 300 sheep dwindled to less than fifty by the second year.
