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Bwana
09-01-2016, 03:12 PM
Just got word that the ND Game and Fish is drawing the names of 7 lucky names out of the 10,380 applicants for their once-in-a-lifetime bighorn sheep tag.

My wife's cousin drew a tag years ago and I was lucky enough to tag along. The second day of the hunt we located two rams about 1.5 miles away and against the advice of the rest of our party and the local sheep expert, I pushed him to follow me in an attempt to get within range before we lost shooting light. It took a bit of convincing and some serious oxygen sucking but I got him to within roughly 275 yards in time for him to fill his tag on a nice 3/4-curl ram. Carrying that thing off of the butte in the dark, whole so it could be skinned out for a full-body mount, took a bit of doing but we got it done. :)

Thumper
09-01-2016, 03:15 PM
Dang! Those are some pretty long odds, but SOMEBODY has to be drawn! Good luck dufe!

Bwana
09-01-2016, 03:30 PM
Long odds for sure. I've only been applying for 35 years now, so I'm definitely not holding my breath.

airbud7
09-01-2016, 04:33 PM
Good Luck Bwana.......But why don't you just go shoot the big goat? that's what we rednecks down south do. its only 1 goat. draw a number my ass just shoot the goat /fuckem

Thumper
09-01-2016, 04:48 PM
Ha! Shoot a bighorn sheep and they'd throw you UNDER the jail!

airbud7
09-01-2016, 04:57 PM
Ha! Shoot a bighorn sheep and they'd throw you UNDER the jail!

Who? The goat?........I didn't know goats had jail's?

DeputyDog
09-01-2016, 06:24 PM
Good luck. That's the one animal I've always wanted to hunt.

Trav
09-01-2016, 07:26 PM
Good luck, we do the same thing with Elk here after 23 years I got drawn in 2011. I got a nice 7x6 for my troubles.

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Captain
09-01-2016, 07:51 PM
Good luck Bwana. I hope you get picked. That would be a hunt of a lifetime!

Bwana
09-02-2016, 08:55 AM
Thanks guys, my fingers are crossed.

Trav, that is a dandy elk, congrats.

Thumper
09-02-2016, 09:51 AM
A great elk and a darn nice mount too Trav!

BarryBobPosthole
09-02-2016, 09:57 AM
Good luck Bwana! I may put in too just to increase your odds. I never win drawings.


BKB

LJ3
09-02-2016, 10:40 AM
You should have had JB submit your application for you!

Thumper
09-02-2016, 10:48 AM
You should have had JB submit your application for you!

Ya' beat me to it! That's an obvious suggestion!

Bwana
09-02-2016, 04:38 PM
Now there is a GREAT idea Len!

Me thinks the Game and Fish are stalling as there are still no results posted. Yesterday afternoon their webpage stated we could not check the results of the draw while the drawing was in progress. I have a tough time believing it takes more than 24 hours to draw 7 names out of a hat.