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10/01/2006 - 10/15/2006

LOCATION:
Fort St. John’s, BC

WEATHER:
Real hard frost in the morning, full moon, frigid, days warmed up to 65 degrees

OUTFITTER:
Greg Williams Outfitting
Greg Williams
P.O Box 60, 60 Charlie Lake
British Columbia, V0H1H0 Canada
250-827-3648
BigSheep@hughes.net

ABOUT THIS HUNT:
It seemed I had been snake bit on trying to get the Stone Sheep. 3 years ago I had a trip booked but the outfitter and I didn’t see eye to eye so I cancelled. Then I was referred to another outfitter in 2005 on a 14 day trip that rained everyday. I blew the only shot I had by hitting a stone near the end of my gun barrel I didn’t see when I lined up for the shot.

American Exposition trip booked through Gary Tuohy convinced me Greg and Faye williams 250.827.3648 would put on a great hunt.

We flew into a camp onto Greg’s claim and met up with Dustin Peacock my guide. If I were blessed enough to be successful on this hunt, I would be Dustin’s 55th client to bag a Stone Sheep. We hit it off and throughout the hunt went from hunter and guide to just plain ‘ol friends.

The very first day we spotted sheep from camp. 8 hours later we finally caught up with the sheep and discovered they weren’t legal size. 4 hours after that we managed to get down the mountain. That 12 hour day took it out of me!

The second day we scouted another 8 hours on the mountain. Again we found sheep but they too weren’t legal. We figured it was time for a change of location so we climbed down the mountain and back to camp. We used our satellite phone and called Greg who flew in to get us and fly us all to another location.

We had a nice meal and a shower at the main lodge and called it a night. We flew out the next morning to another better location and found some legal sheep but were unable to physically traverse to where we found them.

Day three we took quite some time to find them again. We peeked over the ridge and there were 7 legal rams. It took almost 2 hours for the one ram to move out of the way of the one I wanted to shoot. It was a challenging shot of 230 yards almost straight down.

The shot yielded a nice 155-158 ram not quite a book animal at 170 but it did allow me to become a Sheep Slammer which is Dall Sheep, Desert Sheep, Bighorn and Stone Sheep.

ABOUT THIS ANIMAL:
Stone Sheep

EQUIPMENT USED:
Browning A-Bolt, 300 WSM

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