$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

 

[Molon Labe]

I'm an Alaskan resident with a wall full of rams. I go every year because I love the mountains and the adventure and the trophies are meaningful to me because they represent hardships conquered and the memories are sweet. I love sheep ribs over an open fire and time spent with family and close friends.
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? 10 year olds are getting their slams. Do something actually hard. Whatever I guess, people can spend their money how they want. And if it goes to a good cause great. This just isn't sheep hunting to me

So…you know only res or res with direct relative can hunt sheep in Alaska without a guide right? 95% of my buddies that have had to hire a guide to hunt dalls in AK would have done just fine without a guide. They don’t get to experience the solo ram hunt or brutal conditions with their hunting partner because…rules and stuff.

They did not think the guide experience was meaningful…they treated it like they were hunting with their buddy. And majority of the sheep guides I’ve met up there are just normal dudes going hunting.

Kind of ironic you are bashing guides and your state only allows nonres to hunt with guides…right?

And to hunt rams in the lower 48…get insanely lucky OR fill one of the 8 over the counter tags available in some tough country/conditions with needle in a haystack density.

Only reasonable option for most guys on this forum to hunt a ram in their lifetime is guided. Sucks. But that’s the facts.

Luckily I can go with direct relative BUT even fish and game is making draw tags basically impossible and feeding the outfitters the nonres tags…sorry…that’s me complaining that I will not be getting back into the Chugach anytime soon hahaha!

 

[chili370]

Yes (it’s no secret), which that herd was transplanted from wheeler in 2014 after bad fire. The South Dakota ram killed in 2018 that broke 200 had a genetic update from Wheeler in 2004.

It’s sad to see what’s happened to Taos and Wheeler though. Movi sucks

Weird ask, but where would you point someone wanting to read/ learn more about the herds, and history of them, around Taos?

 

[cuerro viejo]

Weird ask, but where would you point someone wanting to read/ learn more about the herds, and history of them, around Taos?

not weird. Conservation at its finest.

NMF&G has alot of articles, and then just google NM bighorn reintroduction

 

[repins05]

I kinda like the group pic. Rich guy is not claiming to be the mighty diy hunter on public land in that pic. He is giving credit to the guides and misc. help that it took for him to be able to tag his trophy. Maybe, I am wrong but does it really matter.

 

[shootnrun]

A ram taken in this fashion makes me feel the same as any J.J. bull, a 200" high fence whitetail, or any other ranched critter.. If you have enough $, anything is possible... I am glad he didn't spend it on a Michael Jordan rookie card and some amount of $ goes to habitat, but let's not pretend the hunter did anything more than pay enough money for someone to walk him to an animal and tell him to pull the trigger..