MT sheep tag went for $300k

[Sumpnneedskillin]

Read in today's paper that some guy from New York paid $300,000 at the Sheep Foundation auction in Reno for a any MT district sheep tag.  If you think $300k is a lot for the tag it's not the most paid, I guess it's $310k.  The article says the sheep foundation gets 10% and the rest goes to MT Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

[270Shooter]

Good now they can lower the prices for non res deer tags 

[Hornseeker]

Good Lord... i think the 310k was a tag a guy used in Rock Creek maybe 10-12 years ago when that heard was unmatched... That herds chit now. This guy will use the tag in the breaks... for that kind of money, he can hire a mossback like crew and kill a 201+ ram! yay for him.

[pianoman9701]

It's not a hunt I can afford, but I like that rich hunters help conservation with their money. Rhino and other exotic hunts in Africa cost a bundle and a good deal of the take goes to producing more babies. In states that are strapped for cash and in poor countries where conservation is possible only with big outside money, this provides a great service to wildlife. I can't say I'm not envious, but I sure like that the money goes to improve hunting and conservation for all of us.

[YoterHunter]

im glad they give the money to the game department there  this state would just line the pockets of our goverment

[Basket Rack]

Hornseeker, what happened to the rock creek herd, did they get pneumonia?

[Hornseeker]

Basket,

They first had a natural decline. It seems to every sheep herd, at least from what I've noticed... they hit their "peak" years, then the quality falls off a bit. In the 90's a guy could kill a 195 ram in there without even trying. By 2005, B&C rams were tough to come by.

Then, yeah, in the last couple years there's been a couple pneumonia outbreaks in different parts of the area...