Hybrid sheep bust in Montana

[Sitka_Blacktail]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/montana-man-pleads-guilty-creating-003000858.html

[elkrack]

Argali in montana!!!!

[GWP]

That is nuts!
At 80, and with the guy pleading guilty, it makes me wonder if he is just looking for free healthcare and lodging? Maybe he is ill?
On the other hand, if this is his first offense, and a non violent crime, figures to be released?
Quite a high tech operation.

[time2hunt]

We need pics


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[92xj]

That is nuts!
At 80, and with the guy pleading guilty, it makes me wonder if he is just looking for free healthcare and lodging? Maybe he is ill?
On the other hand, if this is his first offense, and a non violent crime, figures to be released?
Quite a high tech operation.

Dude is funding importing DNA, cloning and embryo creation of Marco Polo.  I could be wrong, but doubt he is hurting for money and looking for free healthcare and lodging. 
He's old, bored, loves killing big sheep and doing something incredible, yet illegal.

[LDennis24]

I wonder how I could get my hands on a straw of that semen for my Icelandic sheep? Imagine a sheep that's 300+ pounds and how much wool it would produce! It would be gorgeous! And terrifying when it was rutting!

[Rainier10]

That is crazy. The guy had to have some decent money to pull that off.

[GWP]

Anyone that has NOT been butted by a even a smaller horned critter is really missing out and needs to experience it first hand! Bigger critters are very much worse.
Agreed the guy has some cash.
Still surprised he plead guilty. What did they drop to get him to do that?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-federal-wildlife-trafficking-charges-part-yearslong-effort-create

[Fidelk]

Anyone that has NOT been butted by a even a smaller horned critter is really missing out and needs to experience it first hand! Bigger critters are very much worse.

I've had that experience......butted me in the solar plexus and lifted me right off the ground. I guess the ole boy got tired of waiting for that OIL tag.

[andrew_in_idaho]

“The sheep are endangered and protected by both international treaties and U.S. law.”

Anybody else notice this line in there, gotta love sensationalist media who have no clue what they are talking about. Marco Polo sheep are definitely not endangered or protected by law


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[JWBINX]

I wonder what kind of Sheep (ewes) he was impregnating? Regular domestic, exotics??

[LDennis24]

 

It says he was selling semen to other people as well so will they even be able track the sales and find all the sheep? Did the guy keep good records of all sales and shipments? Here is the ram he was using.

[Barehunter]

I hope they killed everyone of these abominations and burned the carcasses. just think if a breeding pair got loose in the wild.
could be like nutria or any of the other non native critters.

[time2hunt]

That looks more like a spin off a mouflon sheep than a Marco Polo.


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[Houndhunter]

I'd be ok with argali running around Montana  ...