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[Marine4life]

No desire for a slam, but I do want 1 of the NAWS species in my lifetime. Don’t care which or where, but I want 1 of them. My dad started applying for the desert sheep in Utah in his early 30’s, thinking he would one day kill all 4. Now he’s just hoping he draws the one desert tag and will MAYBE pay for a dall, but he’s all but written it off at this point. He’s still relatively young (54), but as much as he loves hunting, he knows he can do lots of other hunts for the cost of one stone sheep hunt. Hard to justify there’s any value anymore.

But we do both really want an aoudad…

I read this thinking your dad was in his 70s. Damn he is younger than I am



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[buffybr]

You've been on some great hunts and taken some amazing animals. Congratulations on your entries in the books!
I suppose I came across a little wrong on my previous post. But it's hard for me to not be a little soured over the direction hunting as a whole seems to have taken these days. There's way to many "pose" hunts with a whole tribe of scouters scouring the woods to find one tag holders claim to fame trophy.

You mean like the $1.3 Million that the NM Bighorn tag sold for this year?

Great for conservation, but way beyond the reach for most of us.

 

[HornPorn]

You mean like the $1.3 Million that the NM Bighorn tag sold for this year?

Great for conservation, but way beyond the reach for most of us.

That’s a tired refrain from jealous or ignorant people who obviously don’t have an open enough mind to do the math of how many tags are sold annually for each big game species, and the dollars those tags generate.

If you have a better way to raise that kind of money that goes directly back to the sheep, then let everyone know. You or someone else paying your $3000 fee for the tag you draw doesn’t do squat by comparison. Hard to get past your emotions to think logically I’m sure, but thats the truth. A state adding a single tag for this purpose does not take a tag away from blue collar Billy no matter how much you want that to be the case.

 

[buffybr]

That’s a tired refrain from jealous or ignorant people who obviously don’t have an open enough mind to do the math of how many tags are sold annually for each big game species, and the dollars those tags generate.

If you have a better way to raise that kind of money that goes directly back to the sheep, then let everyone know. You or someone else paying your $3000 fee for the tag you draw doesn’t do squat by comparison. Hard to get past your emotions to think logically I’m sure, but thats the truth. A state adding a single tag for this purpose does not take a tag away from blue collar Billy no matter how much you want that to be the case.

Did you even read the second sentence of my post?

How could I have said it any clearer that the $1.3 Million tag was "Great for conservation!"

I know that the money raised from those tags goes back to the state and to FNAWS for sheep management, and I also know that those "Governor" tags don't affect the number of tags that are available to the hunting public in the drawings. I'm 100% in favor of those tags.

And in the second part of my second sentence, I just said that I and many other hunters don't have the $1.3 Million to be able to bid on that tag. I also don't have $70,000 plus for a Stone sheep tag that I couldn't afford for $11,000 25 years ago'

Also, where did you come up with "your $3000 fee for the tag you draw [that] doesn’t do squat by comparison." I don't apply for tags outside of my home state of Montana, and if I would be lucky enough to draw a Montana sheep tag would cost me a whopping $125, which really doesn't do squat compared to that NM $1.3 million tag.

And as for your " holier than thou" comment of "Hard to get past your emotions to think logically I’m sure, but thats the truth." Maybe you should look into a mirror before you write such slander.

But long as you mentioned "the truth", the cost of the Montana bighorn ram tags back when I shot my 3 rams was $25 each.