Gotta Hate Sheep!!

[dogdoc]

My brother checked our cameras yesterday, we have been averaging 200 plus pics a week on elk give or take. I'm sure lots of the cows and calfs are repeat customers. Problem is last week the sheep moved into one of the areas and the elk became non-existent. Man I sure hate those lawn mowers!! They sure know how to ruin a spring.

 

[why]

elk and deer hate sheep they stink find somewhere else to hunt. they wont come back until sheep have left

 

[Elkhunter96]

That sucks, same thing happened to my friend on the Wasatch last year. A couple of weeks befor the hunt, they moved the mountain maggots into his spot...

 

[dillon]

I shot a buck once right by a herd of sheep. I walked him out of the sheep and up the hill. I hate meadow-maggots also.

Dillon

 

[3blade]

>I shot a buck once right
>by a herd of sheep.
> I walked him out
>of the sheep and up
>the hill. I hate meadow-maggots
>also.
>
>

>
>Dillon

yea, I've seen some nice bulls feed right alongside em without a care in the world. ya never know?

"We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
BF

 

[dogdoc]

Yeah, this area has typically held some nice bulls during the rut, even with the sheep around. I just hoped this year would be different with all the extra feed for the maggots to eat they might not get pushed into the area. Not to be though. Maybe the bear I also caught on the camera will help me out with the sheep.

 

[tageater]

Honestly I don't know if it is the sheep they dislike, or the sheppards and the dogs that they use.

I encountered this issue a few years back. I scouted hard before the season, found good elk, and come opening weekend, nothing but maggots. It didn't take to many minutes to figure out the sheppard had wasted my scouting time, and i have since moved my base camp a mile south of where they continue to run the maggots- the elk, and deer DO move because of them, but not out of the county.

But I hate.....sheep, Too!

 

[DBLung]

Sheep have to be one of the worst things to run into in your honey hole. I have to say that sheep make honey holes what they are. SFW bought the grazing rights to an area that I used to have great success in. Now ten years later you can't even get to it because of the under growth. It has been completely choked off. I worked my way to it last year and the water isn't accessible the shrubs have covered it and there wasn't any tracks of any kind there new or old. I hear SFW now allows grazing once every 4 years or something, because of this problem. There is no way the sheep will make it to that area again. It will need to be burned out.

Grazing has been going on up on the mountain for over a hundred years and most water holes you think are gold are well known by sheep men, some of them were built by sheep men.

 

[hossblur]

We hunt the muzzy on the Manti, on the opening weekend the sheep come off the tops. Its actually a good deal, it stirs the deer that have been hunted for a few days. Plus, there are few things on earth that taste as good as mutton, spuds and sourdough!! Grazing is a western way of life, and we should be supporters even if it screws a hunting area. My .02


When they came for the road hunters I was not one so I said nothing. When they came for the oppurtunists I was not one so I said nothing. When they came for the public land hunters I was not one so I said nothing. When they came for me there was no one left to say anything!

 

[DBLung]

Hossblur,
You have to be a Sanpeter to like mutton. LOL!! Do you dip your sourdough in the grease? Yummmm... The only thing better than a mutton is a fat lamb!!

 

[oakbrush]

all you guys hate sheep now. Just think how bad it would be for you if the sheep could talk.

 

[stinkystomper]

I'm sure that a 300 grain sierra matchking at about 3300 fps from a .33 caliber rifle would do a heck of a number on a sheep but how would I know. I would never shoot livestock on public lands that someone makes his living off of. That would be just wrong. Especially when those sheep have more of a right to be there than the deer or elk.

 

[mountainmac1]

I watched 3 bucks and a few elk within 20 yards of a heard of sheep last night. Do the elk and deer like them, I don't think so. Move one canyon and you will find plenty of elk without sheep. I think the sheep are more annoying to the wild game than anything else.