Originally Posted by irfubar
Brother Dwayne.... Your post and sheep are the "good stuff" seriously!!!
I am somewhat familiar with your brand of sheep, the California Bighorn... as I was fortunate enough to draw a tag for the same subspecies.... now keep in mind I am a "wanna be" sheep hunter and am generally fascinated with wild sheep...
My bighorn was from the mountains of South central Oregon, of all places.
The unit I applied for had the best drawing odds but the worst trophy quality... I didn't care.
Much to my amazement, I drew a tag, I have very little luck in the tag lottery in general.
My financial situation at the time was well... meager... so I scouted , hunted and did everything on my own.
It was an amazing and incredibly difficult hunt... in 4 days of scouting and 6 days of hunting I saw one ram I would consider worthy.
In my unit there was one other hunter, we spent time together and he wasn't having much luck either. He was a gentleman my age and was hunting with his son.
His son was a hardcore sheep hunter with several rams under his belt!
We were all struggling, the temps were in the 90's.... the climb was 2000' each day.... but that is sheep hunting...
I did fill my tag on the 6th day of hunting...


And here he is....


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That's freaking awesome, seriously.

It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.