A solo hunter quest for stone sheep (with back story and pics)

[BCLongshot]

Great story and pics...thanks for sharing

[GrownTarantula]

Thanks for sharing !!!

[Mtn Wonderer]

THANKS FOR SHARING, I have a climbing back ground as well when I was younger I went on Remote Solo goat and sheep hunts after my wife saw the Pictures(Also a climber, she said please no more solo hunts to the boonies.) I have complied to her requests. On these trips I always found myself thinking should I be making these moves across this face?? After I did them, I would always say to myself "You Idiot"!!! But if youve done some alpine rock climbing it just doesn't seem that bad.

Incredible effort and great writing. Awesome!!!! I am still waiting on my first Stone sheep.

[huntcoop]

I'm sure that I'm not the only one that would love to read a gear list/review. This is on my "to do list" and would enjoy the gear intel.

[chinook7]

Thanks again everyone for the kind words.
I have gotten a lot of pms and requests for a gear list so here it goes. It’s a comprehensive gear list in different segments. It’ll take a few posts


Hunting list.


Kimber mtn ascent
Swaro z3 scope with ballistic turret
Swaro flip up scope lens protector
Swaro scope guard
10 rounds reloaded 150 grain accubond
Swaro el range binos
Swaro 60x scope with fabbed up braid connections to eyepiece and scope cover so I don’t lose them
Slik 624 carbon fibre pro tripod
Manfrotto fluid head mvh500ah
Eye patch to help cover one eye so it doesn’t get tired
Kestral mountain caper knife
Havalon knife 5 blades
Kifaru pack (mine is discontinued now but about 100 litres with all the add ons)
Kifaru gun bearer
Kifaru game bags x2
Pillow case to stuff for pillow and doubles as extra game bag.


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[avadad]

Impressive feat! Congratulations.

[Husky7mm]

Wow, that was epic. I can picture it all. One of the best aventures I have ever read here! Facking lion, that ram was probably one of the only sheep in that basin and still it was hunting there.

[325]

What a ram! Thanks for sharing your adventure

[156821]

I have been chasing sheep solo for 2 years and this is what dreams are made of. Well done. I have taken a goat solo but the sheep have got the best of me so far. Great write btw.

[Jagernut]

Thank you all for your kind words. The respect of seasoned and experienced hunters and outdoorsman like you all means a lot. And it’s really nice to share with people who appreciate the amount hard work and dedication an undertaking like this can be. Many of my friends or acquaintances just don’t understand this drive or obsession and it can be difficult to verbalize.
And let’s just change mountain lion to wolverine in my story. It was a lack of experience. I just couldn’t imagine a wolverine climbing that high. But it seems like wolverine is the consensus.
Thanks again

As a heli pilot I have observed a wolverine in the dead of winter, cross two high altitude valleys below a glacier (in the Selkirks), all above treeline. What blew me away was it's track...straight up 2000', straight down 2000', and back straight up the other side...not a single zig zag. Found him going down the other side, with purpose. Tough animal to say the least.

Then in the springtime I would see them digging out moose and goat carcasses from the avalanche paths. There would be these little caves with dirty bloody hairy messes at the opening with one angry critter waiting in the entrance!