Got offered a great deal on a desert sheep due to a cancellation, and I jumped on it. Will be shifting some money next week to lock the deal. Need to do my due diligence first and check this guy out but DAMN it looks like a go........I had pretty much given up on them due to the ridiculous pricing of late, but this deal is too good to turn down. Sure hope this guy checks out and is on the up and up.
Well Boys, Just Bought Me a Desert Bighorn Hunt.
- Thread starter c-fbmi
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He appears to be on the up and up and the hunt will be in Feb. I am likely too old and fat to hunt sheep but for a crack at a desert I'll just have to put on my big girl panties and suck it up and go for it. I still have the will so I will just turn off the pain switch and make it happen, I'm pretty sure I can still do it, as it's more about will power than physical conditioning I have found. If you want something bad enough you can overcome insurmountable odds and just will yourself to do it...........I have until Feb to at least get in some kind of physical condition, so I'll start tomorrow, 50 lb pack and up to the top of my pasture I go..........
I will finally have a use for my ultra light 300 WSM that I spent $4000 building, and I'm sure I will appreciate the lack of weight for this hunt. I can also add a Sonoran Mulie to this hunt so I think I likely will, depending on trophy fee...........HOT DAMN, a desert ram, one of my life's dreams.
Then I can muck around here and find me a bighorn in the next couple years to complete my NA sheep grand slam..........
I will finally have a use for my ultra light 300 WSM that I spent $4000 building, and I'm sure I will appreciate the lack of weight for this hunt. I can also add a Sonoran Mulie to this hunt so I think I likely will, depending on trophy fee...........HOT DAMN, a desert ram, one of my life's dreams.
Then I can muck around here and find me a bighorn in the next couple years to complete my NA sheep grand slam..........
Crazy_Farmer
Regular
- Location
- Running Traffic, BC
Still remember sitting in the airport in Hermosillo a couple years back. Had just finished 4 days of brant and duck hunting and I was sitting right to a fellow who had just came down on a desert sheep hunt. Cancelation one aswell. He took it with a bow and it was a nice one. One helluva trophy! Some great mountain ranges to hunt down there.
Best of luck and enjoy. Love it down there. If the dollar was better I'd be back in Feb again with buddies.
Best of luck and enjoy. Love it down there. If the dollar was better I'd be back in Feb again with buddies.
buckbrushoutdoors
Regular
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- fort saskatchewan AB/Edson AB
Garret bros? If so, I'd pick up a mule deer tag too. They have some giants. I'm saving my pennies for a couse and mule deer down there
BBOD.........Not giving names just yet as all is not in the bag, so to speak, but this guy has a photo gallery of monster Sonoran mulies, and I don't have a good mulie, so I think I best buy a tag for one of them as well. The Coues deer don't really turn my crank but I will see what the fees are just in case a guy sees a good one. Ya just never know.........if I don't buy a Coues tag I'll see a new #1 at 50 mtrs guaranteed...........
I have the biggest obstacle overcome, as the wife is 100% on board with it.........despite what I may post about her from time to time, she is really good with me spending outrageous sums of money on my hunting dreams. My life would be a lot different if she was a money grubbing shrew, but she's good with my NEEDING to do these kind of things from time to time so I am very lucky that way. I think I will take #2 son with me as there is no additional cost and it will be a great bonding experience now that he is 16 and starting to appreciate these kind of hunts. Might even let him take a mulie depending on cost..............
I have the biggest obstacle overcome, as the wife is 100% on board with it.........despite what I may post about her from time to time, she is really good with me spending outrageous sums of money on my hunting dreams. My life would be a lot different if she was a money grubbing shrew, but she's good with my NEEDING to do these kind of things from time to time so I am very lucky that way. I think I will take #2 son with me as there is no additional cost and it will be a great bonding experience now that he is 16 and starting to appreciate these kind of hunts. Might even let him take a mulie depending on cost..............
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The wife obstacle is very real. There are many men who have the means, the will and the time and still can't do anything because their wife won't let them.
We only go this way once, and with a wife aboard, make it a fulfilling one. If that means full-filling a Trophy Room, well, what would be even better.
Better bring camera...
freddyfour
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Brant County, Ontario
Well I've got the wife and usually the time locked down. Just need to see a lot more of the means!!
Wives often don't put the kibosh on an idea if it is unlikely to happen, or at least in the foreseeable future. Heck, many go along with it, cheerfully agreeing to "someday honey" purchases like a Corvette, Ferrari, safari, or banging Shania Twain.
Then the guy gets the floor jerked out from under him so fast that he didn't even notice the noose he was wearing the whole time. Tricky and devious, some of those wimmings.
Hey Bruce, I can't think of a better time to hunt the Sonora than Feb, myself. But ya gotta understand, Phil's not from around here........if you know what I mean.........
Hey Phil, I have hunted in temps from -50 in the high arctic to +55 in Zambia, I have walked the soles off my feet in the sand of Botswana, hunting elephants. I have been snowed on, rained on and nearly blown off the mountain hunting goats in the Yukon. I have had the boat swamped out from under me on Bennet Lake, returning from bow hunting my son's #4 all time Pope & Young Dall ram and had to dive to save it. I nearly expired from hypothermia on Admiralty Island when we got lost and ended up spending the night in a blinding snow storm with no gear.
Now how bad can the Sonoran Desert be....REALLY ???????????
Dogleg.......I know all too well the syndrome that you are referring to, and then there are the snide and cutting little comments for years after when one goes ahead and does such things............but it's all still worth it in the end. Not sure the Shania thing would fly though, that one might cost me far more than it's worth. I doubt she could do anything for me that hasn't been done, but it would still be fun, just to say you done it............
Hey Phil, I have hunted in temps from -50 in the high arctic to +55 in Zambia, I have walked the soles off my feet in the sand of Botswana, hunting elephants. I have been snowed on, rained on and nearly blown off the mountain hunting goats in the Yukon. I have had the boat swamped out from under me on Bennet Lake, returning from bow hunting my son's #4 all time Pope & Young Dall ram and had to dive to save it. I nearly expired from hypothermia on Admiralty Island when we got lost and ended up spending the night in a blinding snow storm with no gear.
Now how bad can the Sonoran Desert be....REALLY ???????????
Dogleg.......I know all too well the syndrome that you are referring to, and then there are the snide and cutting little comments for years after when one goes ahead and does such things............but it's all still worth it in the end. Not sure the Shania thing would fly though, that one might cost me far more than it's worth. I doubt she could do anything for me that hasn't been done, but it would still be fun, just to say you done it............
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