IdahoBugler
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Simply awesome. Beautiful sheep, pics and everything in between.
Does This Sheep Make My Butt Look Big?
- Thread starter Ovis
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AZ402
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Great stuff!! Congrats.......
Day 10
Aug 16 / Day 10:
Greg decides we have hunted the drainage hard enough. We noticed other people moving through the drainage and he is ready to cut his losses on sheep and hunt caribou. We pack up camp, head down to the meat/horn cache and load up the packs heavy and head back to the airstrip.
Aug 16 / Day 10:
Greg decides we have hunted the drainage hard enough. We noticed other people moving through the drainage and he is ready to cut his losses on sheep and hunt caribou. We pack up camp, head down to the meat/horn cache and load up the packs heavy and head back to the airstrip.
Lawnboy
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What a stud of a ram!! I want to go back tomorrow. I have unfinished business. What a great sheep and hunt.
Day 11
Aug 17 / Day 11:
After staying up late last night visiting with some of the other sheephunters at the airstrip, I decided to sleep in the following morning. Greg, however was up and at it early. When I finally did get up, there was no Greg to be found. His gun and binos were gone, but everything else was still in camp, to include pack and water. About two hours go by when Greg comes walking into camp with a grin on his face. He had shot a caribou and apparently a dandy. We grab our camera gear and don our packs to head up to the "top of the mountain" where he shot him. Greg likes to do things the hard way and couldn't shoot his bou near the airstrip in the flats...noooo. But when I make it to the top of the mountain and see this fine specimen of a bou, who could blame him?
Photobomber
Aug 17 / Day 11:
After staying up late last night visiting with some of the other sheephunters at the airstrip, I decided to sleep in the following morning. Greg, however was up and at it early. When I finally did get up, there was no Greg to be found. His gun and binos were gone, but everything else was still in camp, to include pack and water. About two hours go by when Greg comes walking into camp with a grin on his face. He had shot a caribou and apparently a dandy. We grab our camera gear and don our packs to head up to the "top of the mountain" where he shot him. Greg likes to do things the hard way and couldn't shoot his bou near the airstrip in the flats...noooo. But when I make it to the top of the mountain and see this fine specimen of a bou, who could blame him?
Photobomber
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Lawnboy
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Now that is the kind of caribou I should of shot. Great job guys! That's a huge bull.
Day 12 & 13
Aug 18 / Day 12:
We had requested a one day earlier pickup via sat. We spend the day socializing with our neighbors at the airstrip, cooking up mutton and bou over a fire, and sipping box wine before we turn back in for the night. The weather was too bad to get a ride out today.
Aug 19 / Day 13:
By 1030 our plane had arrived and we were telling our new friends goodbye. Little did we know we would see too of them again in Arctic Village as it was a shuttle day by the air carrier. This time the village people were a little more active and I was once again fearful for my life. Especially once confronted by a native tundra wookie on a Honda ATV slurping a slushy who asked me what I planned to do with my game meat. That's a rhetorical question isn't it I thought to myself. Actually, I didn't think much before I told her exactly what I planned to do with it, to which she responded..."I wish you people would stay off my land." She then puttered off into the setting sun never to be seen by me again.
Our new friends; a lifelong insurance salesman, grand-slammer and well...wealthy man, his grandson a freshman on the UAA basketball team and on the far right, a carpenter and Vietnam Vet with a fancy ride in the background.
Greg and I with our trophies in Arctic Village.
Final pic on the way back to Fairbanks of a wildfire along the Yukon River.
Sheenjek!!
Aug 18 / Day 12:
We had requested a one day earlier pickup via sat. We spend the day socializing with our neighbors at the airstrip, cooking up mutton and bou over a fire, and sipping box wine before we turn back in for the night. The weather was too bad to get a ride out today.
Aug 19 / Day 13:
By 1030 our plane had arrived and we were telling our new friends goodbye. Little did we know we would see too of them again in Arctic Village as it was a shuttle day by the air carrier. This time the village people were a little more active and I was once again fearful for my life. Especially once confronted by a native tundra wookie on a Honda ATV slurping a slushy who asked me what I planned to do with my game meat. That's a rhetorical question isn't it I thought to myself. Actually, I didn't think much before I told her exactly what I planned to do with it, to which she responded..."I wish you people would stay off my land." She then puttered off into the setting sun never to be seen by me again.
Our new friends; a lifelong insurance salesman, grand-slammer and well...wealthy man, his grandson a freshman on the UAA basketball team and on the far right, a carpenter and Vietnam Vet with a fancy ride in the background.
Greg and I with our trophies in Arctic Village.
Final pic on the way back to Fairbanks of a wildfire along the Yukon River.
Sheenjek!!
mohunter
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Wow Awesome hunt. Thanks for all the pictures. Made me remember why I am headed to school tomorrow.
Dinkshooter
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I see no mention of length and girth?
My girlfriend says "I'm perfect."
Dinkshooter
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She also tells you size doesn't matter right?
ashersdad
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Sounds like a great trip. Loved the pictures and day by day. Congrats on a nice ram. Now I'm more excited than ever! 13 days and counting...
elk_hunter
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Man, that was outstanding narration and pics. Thanks for sharing, Ovis!
TBinKodiak
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Nice ram and bou guys. Congrats on a great hunt.
Goldtip
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Awesome trip and story. Great Ram Ovis and beautiful Bou for your buddy. Congrats.
