Does anyoe have the total number of Nonresident tags held by outfitters?
You have to realize that with the resident sheep tags, a portion of these are the guys that are the weekend hunter guys that only hunt sheep a couple days a year. I see alot of these guys up on the hummingbird. And then some of the tags are guys hunting for the very first time and dont really know whats happening yet. The actual number of true sheep hunters will be well lower than tht total shows.
If every guy dedicated the time into sheep hunting like the outfitters the resident numbers would sky rocket and sheep numbers would be really hurting. There are guys that put in the time and effort every year and these groups are usually pretty successful.
Outfitters are doing what everyone on here would do in the same position. Do anything to protect a make it easier to make a living.
Im not defending them but they lobby to get stuff then guys cry about it! We out number them 100-1 at least so If we put our time and efforts into the issues that concern us instead of just talking about it alot of things would be different.
SG
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