$1.3 Million Ram

[cbeard64]

A guy last night just paid over $12 million for a 2007 sports card autographed by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant with small pieces of each of one of their jerseys on it. Graded 6 on a scale 10 for condition. (Heritage Auctions - look it up). No one benefited from the sale but the seller and the auction house.

Guess what? Folks pay millions and millions for cars, art, jewels, yachts, vacations, adventure trips, mental health consults, horses, and other things we don’t even know about. Hundreds of times a day. Every day. Hell, many folks’ annual jet fuel bills run into the millions.

This may cause some of you to go into uncontrolled fits of anguish, or it may put this sheep tag deal into better perspective for you. Hopefully, it’s the latter.

 

[MtnW]

The Chicago based owner of Weather Tech floor mats just paid $75 million for a classic Ferrari.
It’s all relative. Rather see these guys giving the coin to support some of our wildlife agencies than some Democratic WOKE programs that harms us sportsmen / conservationists. Some need to wake-up , pay attention, and not get all negative about these guys that are buying these tags. You could do better by fighting the WOKE ANTIS and not going after those who are supporting our cause, even though they may not be in the mainstream of most hunters.

 

[wind gypsy]

define ironic …. Congrats you are a tiny segment of the population that can do a sheep slam(w/fannin) legally unguided

Only BC residents have the purest species ability to complete the slam with a US drawn Desert unguided.

I dont know man. It's kind of ironic to take a post a guy made about hunting sheep in his home state for the love of hunting sheep and focus on how he's lucky because it'd be easier for him to achieve the slam status symbol when that didn't come off as a focus for him.

 

[cuerro viejo]

I dont know man. It's kind of ironic to take a post a guy made about hunting sheep in his home state for the love of hunting sheep and focus on how he's lucky because it'd be easier for him to achieve the slam status symbol when that didn't come off as a focus for him.

Fair enough, Ok remove the slam part and keep “legally having to be guided” since the guide part seems to be the real issue he had in his post. Most of the lower 48 and majority of Canadians cant legally hunt stones, Fannin’s or Dalls unguided. And because it has to be guided it monetarily prices Non Alaskans and Non BC residents out

This kind of guided hunting commercializes and makes a mockery of something I love, I find it gross. Any more I am running into more and more guides in the mountains, always some older client and the packer carrying his pack for him. Why is this worth 1.3 million, what about the guided experience is meaningful?

 

[Choogiak]

I do feel the guide industry commercializes the experience and cheapens it somewhat. It incentives bad behavior as well. I came off harsh though. Most of the guys involved in this hunt I would probably like and get along with. The guides I meet in the mountains usually seem like my kind of people. The guided hunt experience though isn't for me. I have a fannin ram but don't care too much for a slam.

I wish though Alaska would ditch the must be guided rule for sheep and let guys come up and try to get it done DIY. That would necessarily have to be accompanied by all non-resident hunters for sheep going to draw only. And a ram is cooler than some sports card so yeah I agree, way worse ways to waste your money