How much time have you invested in getting a sheep with a bow and arrow?

flyingbrass

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First Colorado Bighorn: 5 seasons of hunting and 64 days in the field with the bow in hand. Sheep fever got to me a couple of times or I might have gotten my first the 4th season! I worked in the unit I finally bagged the ram in. Also "wasted" one sheep tag when I shot a nice P&Y NT mulie 10 miles away from the truck and effectively ended my sheep hunt in a remote unit. This was in the good old days in Colorado as I had 5 archery ram tags in 5 consecutive years. Three tags were out of a unit that had leftover tags every year.

Eight days when I got lucky and drew a NV desert sheep tag. My buddy who drew the tag the previous year went with me and helped me make it happen. Note that I had the entire 28 day season to hunt and decided in the summer that the the first 25 were dedicated to bowhunting, but the last three would be rifle season. Fortunately I didn't need a the gun.

I went on a two week unsuccessful Dall sheep hunt in Alaska with an outfitter that did not work to maximize your hunting opportunity. The first week was spent in a taxidermy shop in Wasilla! Soured me on outfitters for a while.

My second Colorado bighorn was taken on the 11th day of the hunt in the unit I worked in again, 15 years after the first ram. I got a medium sized ram near the end after trying hard for a big one.

I have 5 hunts over the last four seasons in for Stone's......44 days and counting. One of these hunts will be successful! Close encounters just out of my bow range but no ram so far!

Anyway, it is the challenge, the magnificence of sheep country, and ultimately when I finally arrowed one of my rams, the sweet feeling of accomplishment that keeps me trying.
 
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I have never hunted sheep at all. I plan to start in 16 or 17. I would love to kill with a bow and there is a good chance that I will it along with my rifle. Since all of my hunts will be guided since I'm a NR to all the sheep states and countries. I know that if I'm not fairly successful or that if I didn't kill one after spending all the money because I couldn't get with in 40yrds of one, that my wife would kill me and my sheep hunting days are over. Lol
 
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I am planning on a sheep hunt for 17 or 18. I will not have a rifle. I will be either killing one with my bow or going home broke.
 

Maxhunter

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I've been to AK twice for dall sheep and haven't been able to get it done yet! It's definitely not from the lack of trying or seeing rams. If I was hunting with a rifle or muzzleloader, I would have been done within a day or two. I've taken a lot of different animals with my bow, but sheep seem to be by nemesis.

It's an expensive habit but I love hunting them!
 
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I drew one archery tag, and killed a great ram on the 6th day. I should have killed one the 2nd day, but I thought the 25 yd shot was too far, and got busted at about 15.

I don't have any proof, but from what I've seen, Dall sheep would be very hard due to the wide open slopes they love to hang out in. In saying that I know a guy who killed two giant Dall sheep with his recurve at short ranges. I also know another who spent years up there after them and finally arrowed a giant of a ram, one of the coolest I've ever seen. He stuck to his recurve and finally got it done. We're talking 10s of years.
 
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