cuerro viejo
WKR
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- Apr 1, 2013
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My friends, as I have with them, would treat it as their own tag and crush the mountain, every opportunity they got, even before hunt date, it’s a collaboration of intel, and may the only opportunity any of them would get to hunt and hold a sheep even if not their bullet. From experience.If you and your friends are all out there scouting and learning the area and setting up all your gear that is different than if your friends did all that while you were absent and then you show up to their camp and on opening day they lead you to the animal they found.
The OIL tags are the tough ones. Its OIL and you really want to be successful and hiring a guide is very tempting. But the experience, to me, is important and being lead to an animal is not a true hunting experience, to me. This hunt, along with most of JJ's hunts, is an example of killing an animal without actually experiencing a true hunt in my opinion. The thread on here about the NV silver state deer tag is the same. Hire a guide, show up and kill the deer they show you on day 1. You become the shooter, not a hunter.
My wife hunts with me. She told me a couple of weeks ago someone at her work brought up her tag this year and someone else commented that they didn't know she hunted. She said "I don't hunt, I am a hunters wife". She follows me around and shoots at what I tell her to shoot at. She doesn't call herself a hunter because she knows she doesnt actually do any of the "hunting".
So I guess Im also a guide and not just a hunter of sheep.
You can’t really say what JJ’s experience was or wasn’t, with our being there or interviewing G. Man. Pure speculation @ this point. You can’t even really say how physical it was or wasn’t if you haven’t been in the Jemez’s. You don’t know if it took 1 day or 15 days…
people talk smack about optics, but yet they are the ones speculating and then painting that speculation as the optics.
99.9 % of lower 48 tags are 100%.