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Sealing
Posted by Hoyt on Oct 21 2005
First of all Tony great pics!! I love sheep hunting and I get excited about nice rams like that.
----Holly I understand what you are saying about the negativity, but I thought Tradbow had good reason to ask. The state is forcing us to seal sheep, and not providing any consistency across the state for the process. Tony's hunter was warned, and he even said he was nervous with a new guide out there. The inconsistencies of the state and the horror stories have people seriously scared to shoot a sheep and I think its crap. My fiancé` drew the Delta permit, and looking back all the horror stories ran through my mind every day that we hunted. We were 135 yards from a ram (couldn't see the rings well enough to count them) for 5 hours and decided not to shoot because he was so close (looking at Tony’s pics we should have taken him). All I could think of that day is how happy she would be when she shot it, and what a horrible experience she would have when F&G ripped her apart. The next day she took a 35x 14-¼ double-broomed ram @144 yards, so it all worked out. Even with that ram that I knew was way legal I was still very nervous to go to F&G. I will say that the guy @ F&G was nice. He was very quite at first, and it made us nervous (to be honest I was ready to defend our position). I finally asked what he thought, and he paused for a moment and said it was one of the best he had seen all year, he said he wished they all came in that good. I asked how old (I thought 8 for sure by the rings) he counted 7. He also said the ram had broomed off at least 4-5 inches on each side. There was a set of horns on the floor that was clearly short, she asked what was up with those and he shook his head and said, “not a good situation.” Tradbow had an earlier post about a situation he was in and passed; because of the same “sealing scare” I think he was just asking Tony to find out if he was justified passing in his own mind. With Tony’s guys getting warned, I’m sure Tradbow feels good about passing. THE STATE OWES IT TO US TO PROVIDE SOME CONSISTANCY WHEN IT COMES TO SHEEP SEALING. THERE SHOULD BE NO DESCREPENCIES BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT F&G OFFICIAKS WHO SEAL.
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