Big horn results

[JMF]

A number of yrs ago a guy paid $28,000 at the auction. He donated it back and they resold it for $32,000.

I heard the rumor that the same couple bought it both times. After he won it the first time his wife decided she wanted to hunt it, so they gave it back and re-won it in her name. Probably just a rumor though.

 

[bowhunter88]

"One license is available in Unit B3 and one in B4. Also, one license, as authorized under North Dakota Century Code, was auctioned in spring by the Midwest Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation, from which all proceeds are used to enhance bighorn sheep management in North Dakota."

on ndgf site

 

[tikkalover]

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is allocating three bighorn sheep licenses for the 2018 hunting season, two fewer than 2017.
A summer population survey was completed earlier this year and it a showed a total of 77 rams, 12 fewer than 2017 and 27 fewer than 2016.
North Dakota Game and Fish big game management biologist Brett Wiedmann says the 13 percent decrease is likely caused by an ongoing bacterial pneumonia outbreak that started in 2014.

 

[Kurtr]

it is amazing how tough sheep are where they live but they are always looking for a way to die