>Hossblur, I will again state for
>the record, I am NOT,
>and have never been in
>favor of this hunt.
>It's a state park.
>I'm also pretty sure you
>can't find where I stated
>it was a ?real hunt?,
>although any legal hunt on
>public land is technically a
>real hunt. They just
>vary in difficulty from unit
>to unit. A case
>in point.
>
>This it a map of antelope
>island, roughly 17x5 miles and
>7600 ft elevation.
>
>
>
>
>About 40 miles west is this
>mountain called Newfoundland, roughly 19x5
>miles, 7400ft.
>
>
>
>
>Last year my wife drew a
>sheep tag there. The
>week before the hunt, my
>friends and I drove out
>there and filmed a ram
>100 yards from the road.
> The following week my
>wife, accompanied by my posse
>of friends, hiked the mtn
>1500 vertical ft, ands shot
>the very ram we filmed
>from the road.
>
>Last year, Doyle and his hunter
>hikes 3-4 to find the
>buck he was after, only
>to find him broken.
>Then they hiked another 3-4
>miles to find the buck
>they killed. Which of
>these two hunts was harder?
> Which is a real
>hunt? Some guys bash
>Doyle or the hunter, some
>just like to bash.
>I've never said the island
>hunt was not an easy
>hunt. Of the 4
>deer and 4 sheep that
>have been killed, only 1
>hunt lasted more than a
>day, and that was because
>the hunter missed his ram.
>How many hunts on the
>henrys, Phavant, Book Cliffs, guided
>and unguided, last only a
>day. Are those guys
>getting bashed.
>
>Some people that make the island
>out to be a zoo,
>clearly have never been there.
>Some that claim it's a
>difficult hunt are exaggerating.
>The truth lies somewhere in
>between, but far from a
>zoo. It's a park.
> I have nothing against
>the hunters or guides, just
>the state for allowing it.
>
>
>Yelum
+1 to what he said^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Zeke