OK,OK, thanks for the "valuable" pointers ;-)

Wouldn't mind harvesting one of those rams in the dealer's lot. My truck is 18 years old and things break down spontaneously, and at ackward times...

More scouting next weekend...gotta keep trying.

Frans

Hallo Frans;
Actually, you sound like my kind of Sheep hunter. I've been at it for a lot of years and I still haven't got a legal one. The closest I came was about 5 years ago when I chanced on a buddy on a creek down south. He had two really good rams pegged through his spotting scope about 5 miles away and asked if I wanted to come. Only thing, he got first shot. We could tell from that distance they had huge bases so we made our stalk on the two. The one scored 180 and the other one had just as massive horns, but they had both been broken back far enough that he wasn't legal. Bummer.
Actually, I've just about given up. It's too damn competitive to suit me. I've ridden for hours, only to find myself standing in line to check out the rams. I've been in situations were we had enough hunters in attendance that we could have had a baseball game.
Grizz

Hello;
Try Vermillion Lakes, just west of Banff. I've seen some real hummers there.
Grizz

Grizz,

Now I'm sure I'm looking in the wrong place ;-)
Other than the odd hiker I never meet anybody else once I leave the beaten track.

But heck, the places I've looked at have it all, some green stuff on the slopes, a few saddles to escape across, rocky bits to hide in...they are just 9-10 miles from the nearest parking lot and 5-6 miles from the closest bike/hike trail.

I realize the horror of actually bringing in a sheep on my back across that distance, but if that is what it takes...

I refuse to stand in line on HW 40 or anywhere else...there is always somebody earlier or faster....if *that* is what it takes, I guess I won't get my sheep.

I'll just go out a few times more, bring a scope, force myself to sit and glass, instead of scaling the peaks, and rely on luck...

I hope that my luck didn't run out when I shot that wolf last spring...I guess that was something tantamount to finding a nice ram...other then being there at the right time, not making too much noise and shooting straight there wasn't much skill involved in *that*.

Frans

Derf,

I assume that would be in BC, right? I should have mentioned more explicitely that I need one in Alberta. I guess I can be trusted to not break my neck on my own in the AB mountains, but not in the BC mountains. Thanks for the directions though...

Funny system that is...I immigrate from the Netherlands, living 15 feet below sea level, and I get instant credibility as a resident and can hunt all over the province without a guide. Yet somebody from BC, who may have lived in the mountains all his life cannot hunt unguided in the AB Rockies...

I'm sure these rules have nothing to do with protecting me from harm, or they would be different...

Frans

Frans, It would ake for an awful long trip for you but there are a lot of Sheep or Goats in the southern Okanagan from OK Falls to Oosoyos(?) and over to Hedley in the west. We even had one hanging around Princeton for a while but I think some European looking fellow wacked him. derf

No sweat Frans, Want and Need are quite different critters! The distances involved would create their own set of problems anyway. derf