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non-resident guides
Posted by Chisana on Oct 21 2005
Tony,
The upper Knik draingaes where you guide have always had good bases and horn mass, just imagine if you passed on some of those rams and took them next year, you would have some real monsters. Of course as a non-resident guide that wouldn't work for you financially, or maybe you're afraid a resident hunter would kill them first.
I find it a little ironic that a non-resident guide from West Virginia is telling us how we should be managing sheep in Alaska when non-resident sheep guides like Tony and Jeff Burwell are some of the biggest impediments to resident hunters. I don't mean you any disrespect, but with regard to resident sheep hunting, the guide industry is a major pain in the ass. The Alaska constitution mandates that fish and game resources be managed to the maximum benefit of the people of Alaska. That means those sheep are mine more than they are yours.
Take a look at how deer are managed in West Virginia. Try finding a decent white tail buck, it's tough. That's because they harvest the hell out of the population which is what your 3/4 or 7/8 curl management would do to sheep in Alaska. You weren't here when we managed sheep that way and there's a reason the game board went to full curl.
Also Tony in Alaska we don't have outfitters. We have assistant, registered and master guides and transporters. Also, I seriously doubt that Bill Wiederkher has seen as many sheep come out of the field as some of the biologists in Palmer or Glennallen. At most he hauls out 20 or 25 sheep a year and that is probably high. In the Palmer office alone they seal over 100 sheep per year.
Chisana.
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