California Bighorn sheep?

[Ridgerunner]

I want to hunt sheep in this state someday but I really couldn't care less about what the head scores. I would try for a mature animal but only because it would provide more meat than a smaller animal. I'd be doing the hunt for the experience #1, and for the meat #2. I'm not even sure what the heck I'd do with the horns. I know I wouldn't be willing to spend any money to get the head mounted.

I hope you are putting in for the ewe tags then. 

[furbearer365]

Hey bobcat, a once in a lifetime animal and for many, a never in a lifetime, and you wouldn't have it mounted.  Do you just not believe in mounting your game, or do you just not have that much interest in them?

[bobcat]

Ridgerunner, no I'm not going to use up 13 points on a tiny little ewe.   

Furbearer, why would I need to have it mounted? I would be sure to get a good picture and then enlarge it and frame it, and put it on the wall. A sheep head on my wall is just not important to me. I'd rather spend that money on another hunt. Now if I got a bigger mule deer than the one I've got on my wall, I'd have to consider having it mounted. But another problem is, I really don't have much wall space for heads either. So there you have it. I'd have to guess that I'm probably not the only hunter who would not have a bighorn sheep head mounted if I were so lucky to draw a tag.

[huntnphool]

Build a new room for them

[popeshawnpaul]

I don't think you have to have it mounted.  That's not what it is about in my mind.  I would say keep them around unless you want to do something with them someday but to each his own.

[bobcat]

Yep, like the stack of deer antlers on the shelf out in my garage?   

[boneaddict]

I'll buy you an angus if I can have your 13 points. 

[bobcat]

How about if I draw a sheep tag, I'll give you the head and you can have it mounted and hang it on the wall in your house?   

(I don't eat beef)

[boneaddict]

Well that explains a few things.
They'd fit right in with all the ones I have bought off of ebay.

[bobcat]

Maybe I should add to that. I don't eat beef, because my freezer seems to always be full of deer and/or elk. No need to buy beef. If you want to buy me an angus I'll gladly fill my chest freezer up, the one that's sitting out in the shop empty right now. Will you take a sheep head in trade for the angus?

[jackelope]

i have no mounts in my house right now and at this point would be with bobcat. i don't have the room for them or really any huge want to have them either. some people love them, some not so much. i actually love the look of euro mounts and would probably euro anything i got at this point including sheep, goat, moose, elk, deer, etc.... i guess if my mood changes towards shoulder mounts, i could always get a cape and have one mounted.

[boneaddict]

Thanks for the explanation.  I thought those Yar guys might have gotten to you.   

Jack, I think that would be a good excuse to buy or build on the east side, so your sheep can have a place to reside.  I won't hold you to a moose mount, but sheep or goat, you just hafve to.

[jackelope]

oh i wanna hunt them all...don't get me wrong.

[Slider]

Can someone please tell me why in the hell a moose tag is more saute after than a bighorn.  To me, a bighorn represents the ultimate in game species and the greatest North American big game animal there is, in the world for that matter.  It still blows me away that 12,000 can put in for 26 moose tags and only half of that for sheep.  Believe me, as a hunter a moose is right up there towards the top, but there is no way on earth i would put a moose hunt over a bighorn but i guess that is just me.  All i need is one tag, so someone stick up for me and tell the WDFW to hand one over or i will hold someone for ransom.

 

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