Author Topic: Scouting results!!!!!!!! (Read 616 times)

nm22250 · « **on:** January 23, 2006, 03:16:02 PM »

Went scouting today and the results were great!!! Barbary sheep season starts the first of february so i figured id go look for some. Just driving out to where i hunt i saw 2 large rams ,25-30 inches, running with either a couple of smaller rams or ewes,hard to tell the difference. After that i found a herd of 15 with a ram possiobly over 30 inches and several smaller rams and several ewes. I am very excited a bout this season and will be spending the first five days of the season in the field.

rg

markc · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2006, 05:05:26 AM »

NM has a season for Barbary Sheep? Are you hunting in NM? We are talking Aoudad aren't we? Although some ranches still stock them and charge big $ for hunters to go after them here in Tx, they are likely the one exotic here that most ranchers wish they had never stocked. They are a bit out of control and some take the attitude towards them that they have towards feral hogs.

Suprised you saw herds of them, as they are a bit skiddish here. Is this a high fenced ranch you are hunting? Whats the set-up? I hope you bag a big one! Good luck...

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2006, 05:35:57 AM »

Mark, NM stocked Aoudad, Gymsbok Oryx and one other exotic I can't recall at the moment a lot of years ago. They are free ranging on unfenced land, some of it on government missle ranges. They offer tags by draw to out of state residents are very high cost but much less than most ranch hunts in TX. Residents get tags for next to nothing. Thought of moving to NM just for that reason back before I retired but didn't have the money to move after I retired.

I'd like to find one of those ranches that thinks they are hogs and want them killed off cheaply. :lol:

nm22250 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 24, 2006, 06:05:25 AM »

Well thingd have changed in the past few years her in nm. Barbary sheep is an otc permit and tag everything else is a draw hunt. For residents its about 85 bucks to buy one, nonresidents is much more. The particular place i hunt is a large section of public land on a ranch that is known th charge outrageously high prices. As for other exotics the are as graybeard said gemsbock (oryx), ibex, and barbary or aoudad. Those are protected by the state, i have seen mouflon sheep, what i thought to be spanish goats, and there could be other exotics on ranches.

rg