Old guys go sheep hunting too!

[wyosteve]

Since there seems to be a theme developing here, thought I'd add to it. My friend from Maryland did a Wyo. bighorn hunt 3 years ago and took a dandy ram. He was 83 at the time. He went with me to AK. in 2023 and got a brown bear and we celebrated his 84th birthday at the Glacier Brewhouse in Anchorage. Now, after 34 years of applying, he drew an AZ. desert bighorn tag and will be chasing them in December. Oh, and he turned 86 in June!!

 

[Maxhunter]

Age is just a number. Good luck on his AZ hunt.

 

[M44]

Satchel Paige once said.
Age is a case of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it don't matter .

 

[RCL]

Best wishes to him for a great hunt in Arizona.

 

[elkguide]

My analogy is that "your body is like concrete.... as long as you keep stirring it, it stays fluid, but the instant that you stop stirring, it seizes right up!"

Have a great hunt!

 

[Trr15]

Chasing rams in your 80s is pretty damn impressive. Good for him!

 

[Weldor]

Outstanding!!!!

 

[duckcarver]

There aren't a lot of sheep hunters in Maryland, and far fewer in their 80s! Congratulations to your friend on his tag.

 

[tstowater]

The unfortunate part of sheep hunting has to do with points, money and time. Look at the pictures in Huntin Fool and Epic. Most the the hard to draw tags are old people pictures. Should be a young person's game but isn't due to the factors above. Hunting sheep at 86 is impressive.

 

[DLSJR]

I had an elderly friend who invited me to his house for lunch one day and we were going to talk about African hunting. I knew he had hunted Africa very extensively and had done a bit of sheep hunting, but he was old and I didn’t think he’d hunted sheep very much. So imagine my surprise when his wife opened the door and invited me in and the first thing I saw was 14 mounted rams in the entryway, one Mongolian Argali and 13 North American rams, 2 complete Grand Slams. He was around 85 at the time. I commented that I was surprised at the large number of rams he’d shot and he simply said it would have been a lot more if he hadn’t waited until he was 72 to start sheep hunting! He was doing 2 sheep hunts a year in his 80’s. He passed during the Covid pandemic at, IIRC, 92 years old.

We should all be so fortunate.