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First of all, I sure wish I had a decent camera and knew how to take pictures. The sheep are moved down low and rutting a bit. The rams could have cared less that I was there. It was pretty cool!!!
Now, a story I heard from a local resident today. Dont know how true but I gotta tell it. This resident is friends with one of the game agents. During the rifle season the agent was pulled over watching the sheep from a distance. A guy pulls over on the side of the road, grabs his gun, leans across the hood of his truck and takes aim at the sheep. Agent thinks, no way, the guy must just be looking. Kaboom!!! Down goe a ewe. Agent screams up there to the shooter and approaches him. What the heck are you doing. Guy says,whoops is this private. I thought I could shoot a spike whitetail here. Ya, guy thought it was a friggin spike whitetail buck. I dont know about you guys but I would have at least killed the full curl "whitetail" in the herd
Anyway, here are a few shots of teh sheep from today.
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Love them bighorns..............Now I just have to drawn one of those tags.
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A few years ago an out of stater called the game Dept in Wentchee and told them he had shot a funny lookin spike in the Swakane Unit. They told him to bring it in to the office on the (Chelan Hiway) so they could have a look at it. Well the guy pulls into the front of the office and they come outside and look in the back of the truck and YEP!!! A Ewe Bighorn!!!! They confiscatd his truck and gun and wrote him a ticket!!! His remark to the Warden was" I will NEVER hunt in this state again"!!! The warden told him if you can't tell the diffrerence beteen a Mule Deer Buck and a Bighorn sheep, we don't want you to!!!
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i grew up in upstate new york about 2 hours north of the city in the catskill mountains. a good area to hunt whitetails, and a great area if you were a cidiot to come hunting for the weekend. come hunting season every year, any farmers who had cattle that bordered any sort of public land would spray paint these giant orange X's on the sides of their cows so nobody would shoot one. inevitably 1 or 2 would get shot every year by people, usually from NYC, thinking they were deer.
it's really sad that people are hunting and can't tell the difference between bighorns/cattle/deer/and even people sometimes...but thats a whole other story.
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It's scary that there are people like that walking around with high powered rifles.
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What about the sound shooters...............shoot towards the sound in the brush.
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I went ahead and put the -n- in bighors...didn't want anybody getting the wrong idea.
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I heard the same story about the guy thinking he was shooting a whitetail and shot the ewe. My friend actually talked to the wildlife agent who was from this side of the state(west). He even saw the ewe in the back of the agents truck. Priceless: $10,000 fine and loss of hunting rights for 5 years. Seems there is a reason for hunters education no matter what age.
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Thanks Jackelope. That probably looked kinda bad
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Reminds me of the mexicans down here that bought a cow tag, went up into the Wenas and shot themselves a REAL cow.
DAMN! Thats an expensive whitetail.
(I came over to look at your pics from home (dial-up) when it read bighors), then to find out it was just frickin' sheep. What...are you from Montana?
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Hey Bone, didn't mean to exite you with the error title.
Reminds me of one of my favorite pictures. MuleySniper and his roadtrip.
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awesome pictures!! thanks for sharing, and the story is really funny too. very expensive whitey haha
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Thanks for sharing. Didn't get a chance to drive by when I was up last week. Did come away with a nice Highlands 4-point Muley. I'll draw that Mt. Hull sheep tag one day.
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Good pics!!! Thanks for posting them and the story!!!
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