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***One where you need a number of days, instead of a few hours led by a guide that already knows exactly where the sheep are like they do on the island. Many miles were covered before John took his ram on the 6th day in Oregon. As was mentioned by a local on here, the rams on AI can be seen with binos and a spotting scope from the main road. | |||
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Let me see??? If a sheep hunt is not exactly like the sheep hunt you went on, well it really isn't a sheep hunt. How arrogant of an a$$ can you be? Geez. Larry Sellers SCI (International) Life Member
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***Go fuck yourself! I didn't say it had to be like the hunt I was on. I said a sheep hunt normally takes more than a few fucking hours led by a guide that has the sheep spotted from the road like you can do on AI. If you don't like my opinion of hunts on AI, winter range gimmes like some of these high rollers bid on to shoot a big animal, etc. and these auction tags, then too fucking bad. As I said earlier, we live in America where there is more than one opinion on things. If you don't like that I'm not tickled to death with "hunts" like Denny and Larry buy, then too damn bad because I'm probably in the majority on the subject whether you like it or not. | |||
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I don't know when you goombas are going to learn to stop messing with Flop-Gun. He is the original mountain man and for you bunch of panty waist to think you are ever going to hold a candle to the way he does things is ludicrous. Just get a load of the documentary featured last week on National Geographic Explorer on our very own Flop-Gun 30-06..... | |||
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WOW! I think I need to go to the eye doctor. I apparently missed those sheep from the road. Oh wait, that is because WE DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO LOOK FOR SHEEP FROM THE ROAD. My bad. I also bid on the Newfoundland mountains hunt prior to bidding on the AI hunt. Unfortunately, I was in Argentina shooting doves. I was not the high bidder, perhaps because the person I had bidding for me couldn't get through to me on the phone. The Newfoundland mountains hunt is not in a park, it is guided but it is expensive. Does that hunt meet your approval? I suppose my desert sheep hunt (not in a park)that ended quickly wasn't a real hunt either since it wasn't up to your standards. I suppose my 2 blue sheep shot in China on the first day after climbing to 17,500 feet was not a real hunt either since it doesn't meet you standards. After all, I paid for them had guides and shot them the first day. I recon that SE ibex in Spain doesn't qualify either, since I shot it the first day, paid for it and used a guide. Apparently doesn't matter how far I climbed or the weather conditions. Apparently, my Alaska Dall's sheep hunt MIGHT qualify. I am not sure. I used a guide. I hunted for days. It wasn't in a park. I failed due to the weather. Does this one meet you approval? Oh, I omitted one fact. I paid about $20,000 for it (including flights). Does paying that much disqualify this from your approval? How about my other failed Dall's sheep hunt where I hunted one day and was snowed in for 11 days thereafter? I had a guide and I paid for it. Does that disqualify it in you eyes? TG, I have busted my ass my entire life. I work extreme hours. I have flown over 200,000 miles this year helping my clients. I risk total financial ruin every single time I sign my name. Brother, I ain't going to apologize about being able to afford these hunt. Perhaps you think I should redistribute my income instead. Frankly, I could care less what you think.  | |||
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the ignore button can be your friend and it sure cleans out the trash.....  Birmingham, Al | |||
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Did I say one GD thing about any of the other hunts you've been on in your life? Did I say that your AI sheep hunt involved spotting from ther road? No, I sure as hell didn't and now you, like the other member, are putting words in my mouth just for the sake of arguing your case. I could give a shit how much money you have to do all the stuff that you do! The problem I, and many others have, is as I have stated several times and none of you seem to be able to digest. I have a big problem with these auctions that are set up so that the hunts are basicly a sure thing like the AI hunt in a friggin State Park and tags that are good for a year where deer can be shot on the winter range. Have any of these SFW and/or Governor's tags not been filled? Nope, every one of them ends up with a giagantic animal being taken because most aren't hunted in a manner similar to the way an average hunt goes. You, as well as the ones who are calling me names, know exactly what I'm talking about. Let those tags only be used during the regular seasons that everyone else is hunting and eliminate 20 spotters that have already found and are sitting on the animal the bidder is going to shoot and most, including myself, would have no problem with it. IMHO these types of hunts are more detrimental to hunting as a sport than any good that might come from the money being paid for them with very few exceptions, the AI sheep hunt possibly being one of them. Again, I'm sorry some don't agree with that, but the ones that are making comments calling me names because they disagree with my opinion are the real "arrogant asses" on this Forum! Sorry I used some foul language Drummond, but I guess everyone is allowed to call me names like is being done and I should just sit back, turn the other cheek, and be happy about it!!! As for 505 Gibbs, his avatar tells me all I need to know about that guy, LOL! | |||
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now you are getting down to Flop-Guns real issue. Apparently his pension from Wackenhut security was smaller than he anticipated? | |||
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***Good one there 505, but you're absolutely wrong just like Larry and that comment of his that you quoted, as I think it's great that a person has the bucks to go all over and it sounds like Larry has done plenty of hunts all over the globe. Good for him and others that can do as he does, but that's not remotely what I'm discussing here on this thread. I'm talking strictly these auction hunts designed to take big animals mostly in places where there is no hunting or out of the normal seasons to make it almost a sure thing that a trophy is taken. Also, I'm more than surviving nicely on my state pension, SS check and plenty of investments that I made during my working days, so I'm sorry to disappoint you with actual facts! I'm also blessed with a great wife who knows my love for hunting and has no problem when I'm gone for weeks at a time with my three month trip that I just finished as a good example. All she asked was that I called her as often as I had cell service to let her know everything was going okay. It's a shame some can't read and digest what is actually being written and stated instead of just coming to incorrect conclusions like all of you that are not happy with my posts are doing. And hey CHC, it sure took you a long time to chime in with your post. What's the matter with you? Have you been too busy filling all your feeders for the clients to get on the site and get into more arguments with the members like you usually do? Talk about using the ignore button when more probably have you on ignore than any other site member, LOL! | |||
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 Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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