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A huge thanks to all the Hunt WA members and everyone else that attended the WA Wild Sheep Foundation banquet last night. As predicted it was hugely successful and we even had a little unpredicted twist at the end. If you were there you know what I'm talking about. It is going to be exciting to see what Mr. Sayer has in store for us but if you have never hunted sheep before, I would be making plans to be at the banquet in 2016. Once again thanks everyone; I really believe WWSF have the best members out there.
Had a blast last night! It will be interesting to see what happens next year, what a great guy to want to give the hunt to someone else, heck of a guy. I won an elk collaring experience in the near future, almost won the puppy. I went to get a drink and when I get back to the table my wife is up to 1,600.00 for the puppy! Good thing the other bidders kept on bidding, looking forward to next year. Some of the bidding items went for really good prices this year. Thanks to all the guys and gal at our table for a great night. See ya next year!
I was at Banquet, thought it was well done. The drawing for the Texas Sheep was confusing as MR SAYER Made a statement that Perplexes me as to it's meaning, I think he meant well, but it makes me uneasy when someone wants to change the rules. In my opinion if he felt he didn't deserve the Hunt he should have let it be drawn again. Just my 2 cents, not to stir things up.
Sorry for the confusion. Mr Sayer won the hunt and wanted to donate it back to WWSF to be auctioned off to raise money for the conservation of wild sheep. The problem is our rules say that the hunt can't be sold. To be honest we never thought of this particular set of circumstances. We have that rule because we don't want Joe Blow to win the hunt and then sell it to another person to profit from it. Mr. Sayer really just wanted to provide more $ to put and keep sheep on the mountain. If I were in his shoes I don't think I would have said draw again; who knows who the next name will be, it might be the most deserving person in the world or it may be a guy that has multiple grand slams. Either way it does not provide more conservation funding which was his goal. I applaud his dedication to conservation and humbleness.
You could have heard a pin drop at that point. Also the guy whose name was drawn first is gonna be kicking himself in the ass over not attending the show.
Quote from: WonkyWapiti on March 08, 2015, 07:59:40 PMYou could have heard a pin drop at that point. Also the guy whose name was drawn first is gonna be kicking himself in the ass over not attending the show.Didn't you have to be in the building to put your name in the drawing? I know when I checked in they then put my name in the barrel, so, was the guy out getting a drink or something? I can't imagine not being in the room when the drawing was taking place, that did not work out well for him.