Incredible adventure Trial, and beautiful trophy that will keep a smile on your face every time you look at it.
I'm curious who your outfitter was, if you don't mind sharing.
Congratulations.
It's always disappointing to me when I read an excited thread of someone who draws a great tag, but then there is no end of story.
Probably some hunts just end badly, but even those are good reads to me.
Like everything else in life, there are good and bad years.
Antelope have survived plenty of bad winters, and if this is one of them, they will eventually cycle back.
We will just have to be patient to see it happen.
Well I'm glad you chimed in on all this Trev. Those figures are more like I had anticipated. No doubt, like anything else, some concessions are better than others and a hunters drive, preparation, and skill play a big part in success.
Hey Trev,
That study is eye opening and way more scientific than my online survey!
So if I read the charts right, BC has been issuing around 290 non-resident Sheep permits the last several years and the average harvest has been around 150 during that same period. Given that non-residents have...
Some very good friends helped finance the first hunt so it was a big discount that even got me there. But that outfit did not offer a discount for another go. I went with a different outfitter for the second hunt. I really went out on a financial limb to go a second time. Moonlit flipped a...
I came home empty handed from my first Stone Sheep hunt and it was guided. It seems like a fair number of guided Stone hunts are unsuccessful.
I did get a ram with another outfitter a few years later, but I'm curious about how many GUIDED Stone Sheep hunters also had to go another time, or two...
Last week I witnessed two guys, who had received tags in previous years, draw their second sheep tag at the "Sheep Camp" event that's part of the Western Hunting Expo. There were 1700 people in that room with tickets in those 12 different sheep hunt bins. Drawing a second tag is beating...
I once chewed on Stone Sheep tag Jerky for three years! It was nasty!
I did finally get the taste out of my mouth when I was able to go again, with another outfitter, and found the sweet flavor of success.
Incredible picture Sandbrew.
That grass mound with blue flowers against the mountain background is almost too perfect. But then so was the outcome.
Well done!