Silvereagle50
WKR
I have thought about starting this a while ago, but I didn't know for sure if it would ever really happen. I've already made several steps in this journey at this point and will try to back up and start this from the beginning.
My story begins with going to the Backwoods Hunting and Fishing Expo in Oklahoma City with my dad this past March. We are walking down the aisles looking at what all there is to look at. We ran into the guide my dad has used twice for African game. We turn down another aisle and I spot a Dall Sheep mount hanging on a display. I said to my dad that I’ve always wanted to hunt sheep. I’ve always just thought it was totally out of my reach as far as the price range. That thought crossed my mind and I really moved to the opposite side of the aisle and was just going to walk on by. But something made me stop. I said to my dad that I wanted to just talk to the guy and see what it was like. Thinking that I was in no way going to be able to go on a sheep hunt, I didn’t want to take up too much of his time. We talked a little bit just about hunting sheep. Not really sure why or how, but the subject of the costs finally came up. I guess in my mind I’d have always heard of prices in the $50K range for going on a sheep hunt, so when he said he normally gets about $17K for a hunt but he had only one spot left for the coming August hunt and would take $15K I was set back a little. That wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought. Still there was no way I could come up with that in so little time (much less a down payment on the spot) and then there was the getting in shape thing. We finished talking and the guide gave me his pamphlet and business card then dad and I moved on our way. We didn’t really talk about it much as we continued through the show, but it was in the back of my mind and the seed was planted.
My story begins with going to the Backwoods Hunting and Fishing Expo in Oklahoma City with my dad this past March. We are walking down the aisles looking at what all there is to look at. We ran into the guide my dad has used twice for African game. We turn down another aisle and I spot a Dall Sheep mount hanging on a display. I said to my dad that I’ve always wanted to hunt sheep. I’ve always just thought it was totally out of my reach as far as the price range. That thought crossed my mind and I really moved to the opposite side of the aisle and was just going to walk on by. But something made me stop. I said to my dad that I wanted to just talk to the guy and see what it was like. Thinking that I was in no way going to be able to go on a sheep hunt, I didn’t want to take up too much of his time. We talked a little bit just about hunting sheep. Not really sure why or how, but the subject of the costs finally came up. I guess in my mind I’d have always heard of prices in the $50K range for going on a sheep hunt, so when he said he normally gets about $17K for a hunt but he had only one spot left for the coming August hunt and would take $15K I was set back a little. That wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought. Still there was no way I could come up with that in so little time (much less a down payment on the spot) and then there was the getting in shape thing. We finished talking and the guide gave me his pamphlet and business card then dad and I moved on our way. We didn’t really talk about it much as we continued through the show, but it was in the back of my mind and the seed was planted.