Way to go Logan! Completely random stumble upon, wasn’t even looking up sheep hunting. Looked like a great trip with a lot of ‘cold wet and miserable, but good’ as Sourdough would’ve commented. Next’ time get the shot on camera! P.S. Got a little controversy in the comments taboot.😅
Was this a fly in trip? I’ve never seen someone run into so many hunters sheep hunting. I’m not familiar with it myself but it seems so remote where you are!
@@loganevans907 I've heard that "hard to tell" comment more than once. I think it takes sectioning and examining a tooth to be certain. Beautiful ram, well earned!
Thanks it was amazing - as most sheep hunts are! He was aged at 9, by ADFG, but i've had a few bios age him at 10-11. It's not an exact science that is for sure!
Consider a different hobby. Hunters take big , often dominant and healthy males out of the gene pool. Also your having fun killing stuff. Im no vegetarian but why go out of your way to kill wild life ? They dont have much left ( in terms of non-human effected living opportunity ). Technically hunting for sport is probably one of the most dishonorable hobbies possible. The animal doesn't even know its in combat, its just an execution.
First off, humans have been hunting from the dawn of time. Next, just because you lack the capability and/or the grit to kill your own food doesn't mean everyone feels that way. Your grasp of reality, or lack there of, is great example of someone completely out of touch....
@@jackwagon1798 I am aware of how long humans have hunted. I have hunted ground hogs at a family's farm, and fished ( technically counts ). I am confident in my grasp of reality. Very confident, better then most around me infact. Feels like a random counter attack, like calling someone " a stupid ". This is modern times, choose your battles. Hunt if you want, but you wont win the logic war on if hunting is right or wrong ( except over population, or needing to catch your own food ). Incredibly rare that someone is actually out there hunting their own food because they have to / choose to for honorable reasons. It is most likely just another man that gets off on the hunt and the kill. Like.... shoot at non living targets, play a first person shooter video game. Anything other then sentient life ?
@@loganevans907 After i mail the tears, will you crystalize the salt from them, turn that into buck shot, and then go blast bambi frolicking around ? A fluffy bunny rabbit chewing some grass ? Maybe a wild cutieduck just duckin around ? Will you ? Just joking, do your thing, use your judgement.
1) We take the “big, often dominant and healthy males…” because that is the requirement of the Alaska hunting regulations which, by the way, are established by wildlife biologists for the purposes of maintaining a healthy, sustainable population. These aren’t threatened or endangered species here. 2) hunting and “killing stuff” is the way of men; it always has been, and it always will be, regardless of whether or not you like it. You can continue to get your hormone injected, pen raised protein from the grocery store-which is a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions and reduced albedo of the suns electromagnetic radiation-while we take part in the natural process of attaining our own meat…which has no environmental impact…unlike the meat industry. 3) You are making a claim based on moral relativism by stating that, “the sheep doesn’t know it’s in combat … It’s just an execution.” What about the millions of livestock slaughtered every year; are their lives less valuable because they were raised in pens or stuck with needles? These sheep lived a good life, free and wild until they were taken with a clean, ethical kill…I’d rather support that than having animals fenced in, given growth hormones, and forced to live for the sole purpose of “execution” in order to feed your ignorant face. That, my friend, is much more dishonorable when juxtaposed with the amount of respect this hunter showed for that sheep; the fair chase, the ethical kill, and the many years this animal was able to roam free in the mountains.
