Chasing a dream - Stone's SHEEP and Roosevelt ELK - PICTURE HEAVY

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As we walked away, I asked Dave if it was foolish to take our eyes off of them, but we figured it was 9am and we had a whole day to kill anyways. Plus they didn’t seem to be going anywhere. Taking our eyes off the sheep was a mistake I will never do again. Losing visual reference, the sheep completely disappeared in the expanse of boulders and lichen, the hunt had gone from a give me to a give me that again. We had completely lost them. We hiked to a better viewing position and got on the glass. We studied every inch of that mountain. We looked all day through two spotting scopes and still northing. They were gone! We had come to the conclusion that these sheep must have been related to David Copperfield. We searched from top to bottom, like an investigator on a crime scene, we covered every inch of that mountain side at full 60x zoom... and nothing. Then at 6pm, like Houdini, they just appeared, feeding in the middle of the mountain, in full view. Now, I wouldn’t take my eyes off them again. I felt a huge sense of relief and my heart pounded with anticipation of the next morning and how things would go. We planned a couple of different stocks from different angles depending on the wind and set the alarm for 3:30am. They weren’t leaving that mountain. All I had to do was get up and shoot one.

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better than nyquil ...

Beauty ram! Brings back some fond memories hunting sheep early season. Great thread...keep it coming...

Nice pictures and great story.Off to make popcorn and grab a drink,keep it coming :)

About time!! At least I can look forward to the elk story!

Awesome stuff Dave. Great story and photos so far. Looking forward to seeing more. Can't wait to see the Rosy stuff. I am assuming you connected?

nevermind the sheep and elk......

Whats the story on this one??
Talking when you should have been listening??:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:



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hey hey HEY!!!!
No ball-bag shot this time?

Dave so far fantastic pictures and wright up except your face what the h*ll happened there ????:confused: ,I am patiently waiting for story and pictures to continue..