The On Your Own Adventures cameras are in Colorado, getting ready for bighorn sheep season to open on Sunday. Camp is set. Very high elevation for these sheep.
The tag holder is a good friend who drew after nine years, as a resident. Colorado has short rifle seasons for sheep, so we will have to get lucky to get one in that time frame.
Oak and Dinkshooter know a lot about CO sheep. Oak actually helped with the details of some of this hunt, when the tagholder was at the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society orientation course. They are a great group. If you want to learn more about that group, click on this link - Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society.
Colorado has amazing cell coverage in these mountains. Must be due to the close proximity of so many ski resorts. So, I am hoping I can post frequent details of the hunt, with pictures.
This is a rifle hunt, so the trick of getting within 50 yards, as in the last two archery hunts, is not the challenge. The challenge will be finding sheep, and getting to them at these elevations. Some of the peaks we will be hunting will be topping out at 13,000'. Camp is at 11,000'. Most the sheep should be near tree line, which varies depending upon which side of the mountain you are on, but is usually higher than my legs/lungs want to go.
Scouting pics to post tomorrow.
The tag holder is a good friend who drew after nine years, as a resident. Colorado has short rifle seasons for sheep, so we will have to get lucky to get one in that time frame.
Oak and Dinkshooter know a lot about CO sheep. Oak actually helped with the details of some of this hunt, when the tagholder was at the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society orientation course. They are a great group. If you want to learn more about that group, click on this link - Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society.
Colorado has amazing cell coverage in these mountains. Must be due to the close proximity of so many ski resorts. So, I am hoping I can post frequent details of the hunt, with pictures.
This is a rifle hunt, so the trick of getting within 50 yards, as in the last two archery hunts, is not the challenge. The challenge will be finding sheep, and getting to them at these elevations. Some of the peaks we will be hunting will be topping out at 13,000'. Camp is at 11,000'. Most the sheep should be near tree line, which varies depending upon which side of the mountain you are on, but is usually higher than my legs/lungs want to go.
Scouting pics to post tomorrow.