I feel as a hunter that it is better to harvest mature animals rather than young animals.Score means nothing to me.But if the young are hunted then whats left to mature?Sure there is still the thrill of the hunt whether it is young or old.But giving the difference in the populations of the different game animals the sheep is one of the smaller populations as compared to whitetails or elk.And if you don't think sheep are special then look at the rates for non-resident hunts for sheep.
As far as population goes,if you take the 1990 sheep report and the population goals for 2000 in that report and take it another 10 years you will see we are behind on the growth projections.How ever we are also way below the harvest goals of that report as well.
We are also one of the only places that I know of that has a general season for bighorn sheep.If we don't look towards the future we will lose this special hunt.As hunters we must look to the future of any game animal to preserve the hunt for the future.Not only our's but of all future hunters.
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