Well, we had a wonderful time this weekend. We got up Saturday morning and after discussing our game plan for the day we realized that we were missing one thing that is absolutely vital... We had the gun and we had ammo. We had hunter orange, and plenty of diapers for Dane. What more could we need??? Oh yeah, a tag. We had forgotten Clint's ewe permit at home. So, Clint had to load up and head back to town to pick it up.
Needless to say, that slowed down our morning and we got a later start than we hoped. But, luck was on our side. On our way in we stopped and glassed to see if we could spot any sheep from below. Sure enough, after a little while Clint found some that were feeding in a small valley. There were a lot of juvenile males in the herd but there also were a couple ewes. There was one ewe in particular who stuck out as the largest and she was a beautiful chocolate color. This was the one that Clint wanted!
We were able to get fairly close and after an hour or so of sneaking up on them, Clint got a clear shot. His placement was excellent and one shot was all it took... we had a sheep on the ground and the work started!!!
It was really nice weather but a little warm, so we had to work quickly to get the skin off. We set up in the shade and Dane got to sit in the Kelty and watch. After a little while he got a little fussy and I had to pull him out and nurse him. He did really well, but he definitely adds a new challenge to hunting that we didn't have before. But, with some patience on everyone's part we made it through and had an awesome time!
We had to circle around in order to get on the sheep without them spotting or smelling us. The scenery was beautiful so I snapped a couple photos while we were hiking!
While we were sitting and watching the sheep, this little chipmunk was watching us. He kept chattering at us and running around the base of the tree.
As I mentioned before it was pretty warm so we didn't want to take too much time for pictures, and it was fairly steep so it was hard to get the camera set up to take one of all three of us. Here are a couple that we were able to get. I think the one of Clint and Dane is pretty cute.
While taking this one, I couldn't get Dane to look at me... He was way too intrigued by the sheep!
2 comments:
Congrats! Looks like you all had a great time. What a good little hunter Dane is going to be. Great pictures.
Awesome pictures. I want to know how you keep Dane from freaking out when the gun goes off? Does he jump? Cry? Wow you guys rock!
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