Sheep Show in Reno

[ismith]

It’s been a week, it’s been hard.

 

[Labman]

Dang it that’s a heart breaker

Ya, it is.

Here’s what’s hard to justify…flights, hotels, meals, rental car/uber, banquet tickets (the only expense the WSF sees a portion of), child care, dog boarding, the list goes on. For what? 1/600 or worse odds at a sheep hunt. If there was another reason to attend then I could see it. But after you’ve been there a few times how do you tell yourself it’s worth it to go every year? If you’re playing odds I think you’re far better off finding a raffle that has a limited number of tickets and buying a dollar amount that you would have spent on the expenditures listed above. It tears me up a bit, but that’s life I guess.

Who wants to hunt desert sheep anyways…

 

[ismith]

Ya, it is.

Here’s what’s hard to justify…flights, hotels, meals, rental car/uber, banquet tickets (the only expense the WSF sees a portion of), child care, dog boarding, the list goes on. For what? 1/600 or worse odds at a sheep hunt. If there was another reason to attend then I could see it. But after you’ve been there a few times how do you tell yourself it’s worth it to go every year? If you’re playing odds I think you’re far better off finding a raffle that has a limited number of tickets and buying a dollar amount that you would have spent on the expenditures listed above. It tears me up a bit, but that’s life I guess.

Who wants to hunt desert sheep anyways…
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Buy some XRP, better odds of being able to afford some sheep hunts in the future.

 

[fulldraw]

Ya, it is.

Here’s what’s hard to justify…flights, hotels, meals, rental car/uber, banquet tickets (the only expense the WSF sees a portion of), child care, dog boarding, the list goes on. For what? 1/600 or worse odds at a sheep hunt. If there was another reason to attend then I could see it. But after you’ve been there a few times how do you tell yourself it’s worth it to go every year? If you’re playing odds I think you’re far better off finding a raffle that has a limited number of tickets and buying a dollar amount that you would have spent on the expenditures listed above. It tears me up a bit, but that’s life I guess.

Who wants to hunt desert sheep anyways…
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I totally understand what you are saying. My wife has two brothers that live in Northern California and they come over to Reno for three days so it works out as a mini family vacation for all of us. I don’t think I would be going every year if it wasn’t for that.

 

[Jape]

Anyone see any pictures of the New Mexico ram that has the hit out on it for over a million?

No, but this is the ram JJ shot in NM last year. I think he paid $600k for that tag. Grossed out at 208. Not sure what net was. My guess is there is a bigger one that is being watched day and night by an outfitter for $1.3M.

 

[Bambistew]

I can't wait to see how many less sheep we have this year.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

I'm sure this year will end up with more sheep inesead of half as many as we did 10 years ago.

MT issued the fewest number of sheep tags last year sine 1970.

#auctiontag$$ave$heep
#it$forcon$servation

What would we do without the wealthy sheephunter foundation and their backpack races?

How many fewer sheep is there in NA than 30 years ago? 50% less?

Still waiting for the gloves er I mean oven mitts come off.

Keep sending in that money its sure keeping sheep on the mountain.

 

[WesternRookie]

Ya, it is.

Here’s what’s hard to justify…flights, hotels, meals, rental car/uber, banquet tickets (the only expense the WSF sees a portion of), child care, dog boarding, the list goes on. For what? 1/600 or worse odds at a sheep hunt. If there was another reason to attend then I could see it. But after you’ve been there a few times how do you tell yourself it’s worth it to go every year? If you’re playing odds I think you’re far better off finding a raffle that has a limited number of tickets and buying a dollar amount that you would have spent on the expenditures listed above. It tears me up a bit, but that’s life I guess.

Who wants to hunt desert sheep anyways…
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They had to call 5 names for the "1 more for 4" raffle before a winner was present. That's 4 people whose names were called who needed 1 more ram for their slam, and was going to be paid for by the Bernie Fiedeldey foundation, but they weren't there........guy sitting next to me at the banquet knew one of them and called him.