mritter
FNG
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2019
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A great lead up like this needs an ending!
Thank you for sharing your story. I ate a Bighorn tag several years ago so I can relate to the high after drawing the tag, the anticipation leading up to the hunt, and the disappointment as the season closes. But, based on the updates on your preparations and the report of your actual hunt, you gave it your best and you did have a great hunt, just as Shrek had hoped.
After the sting wears off, I am pretty sure you will, like me, look back and consider yourself fortunate to have just had the opportunity to run around the mountains with a sheep tag in your pocket.
The sting of not getting the sheep is pretty mild, because I had a hunting experience that took me into beautiful country and taught me some new things. What does kind of irritate me, is the attitude of the non-resident who did shoot a sheep. I say shoot, rather than hunt because his instructions to his guide were "you find the sheep, I fly in and kill it, we take one or two days" and that is exactly how he took his sheep. The guide did all of the hunting, while the he was just the nut behind the trigger. All he was looking for was something to hang on his trophy room wall and bragging rights. I feel that does a disservice to the animal and the hunt. While I would have been happy to find and kill a ram in the first day or two of my hunt, I still would have wanted it to be a hunt. Further, I will have memories to treasure and feelings that I can take wherever I go from my hunt, all he has is a head on the wall.
The sting of not getting the sheep is pretty mild, because I had a hunting experience that took me into beautiful country and taught me some new things. What does kind of irritate me, is the attitude of the non-resident who did shoot a sheep. I say shoot, rather than hunt because his instructions to his guide were "you find the sheep, I fly in and kill it, we take one or two days" and that is exactly how he took his sheep. The guide did all of the hunting, while the he was just the nut behind the trigger. All he was looking for was something to hang on his trophy room wall and bragging rights. I feel that does a disservice to the animal and the hunt. While I would have been happy to find and kill a ram in the first day or two of my hunt, I still would have wanted it to be a hunt. Further, I will have memories to treasure and feelings that I can take wherever I go from my hunt, all he has is a head on the wall.