Good on the BHA bc chapter for stepping up and taking a position on the region 4 sheep.
Must be Lloyd Christmas… 178:1 draw odds within 5 years of being GOS hunting for full curl rams is ok!? If your biggest concern is how many sheep a hunter has personally harvested in a lifetime your letting your emotions take over from science to make regulations that certainly are not helping sheep hunters by advocating for regulations that end sheep hunting for 99.5% of hunters each season. We are our own worst enemies but some hunters sleep better knowing fewer hunters are sheep hunting!
Almost every bighorn draw is now a once in a lifetime draw hunt. It’s too bad we keep asking for regulations that take away our opportunity to HUNT sheep, and other species. To often those who are pushing for regulations limiting harvest of post prime breeding age class animals are more caught up with hunting as a competition. Limiting hunter involvement is bad for our future hunting.
Assuming the average sheep hunter gets 30 years of ability to hunt sheep in their life…. How many sheep hunters plan to continue or start donating time and money to sheep conservation when you stand a once in 5 lifetime chance of hunting a wild sheep? Sounds more like anti hunting to me.
Hunting guy hit the nail on the head 5 times. Theres no need for leh and bighorns. Bull river never should have went to leh considering they had a ewe draw a couple years prior. The only people that benefit is outfitters. The sheep wont, residents wont... q
Sounds like someone may be more concerned about killing then hunting or conservation. Was it not science so to speak that changed the bull river to LEH.
Average sheep hunter only gets 30 yrs of ability to hunt, well passed that by over 10 all ready and will continue. Will continue to help others with info
and spotting as well dont have to be the shooter but will still hunt. Take a look at the kamloops thread, how that LEH tag holder mentions all the help from
others that were not there to be the shooter but still went hunting. Although its from the states the summer issue of wild sheep has a good story of
some people and the amount they do for sheep even though they have never shot or hunted them, infact there is thousands of people there that do things for
sheep and wildlife conservation just because they like the wildlife.
One possible change they could make to the LEH would be if it say cost $250 or $500 to enter and you got your money back except for price of tag if you didnt draw.
That would possible drop your odds way down for many wouldnt apply just because.
Congratulations on your good health, hopefully it continues for you. Unfortunately for many out there with degen disks / knees / shoulders 30 years is being optimistic. If you can find the rational for rule changes that circulated prior to the Bull river going to LEH you will see emotion over science, I looked online but can’t find it so I won’t quote it but parts of it was pathetic.
$250-$500 hardly buys the boots never mind optics / rifle / lightweight everything / kuiu or Sitka that everyone seems to wear now. Not sure that adding what is essentially a sheep hunters tax is going to do for sheep hunting opportunities?
There are many anti hunting groups that also advertise enhancements to wildlife and conservation where nobody kills anything. I guess they are just more honest about their intentions. Too bad they seem to be winning over long time hunters without them even realizing it.