Congrats to this 10 Year Old

[Lucky Draw]

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/tucson-boy-bags-bighorn-he-s-youngest-in-recent-history/article_525873f0-28a0-5d4b-b26b-68878950b16f.html

 

Now THAT is a birthday present.

[Mathews]

Thought kid had won the lottery until I saw the tag was handed down. Thats sweet though

[Tines]

Congrats to the young boy!

 

If I'm understanding everything correctly, they went down to the G and F, his mother signed the tag over to him and then he went out and shot a ram on the SAME DAY??? That's impressive!

[Flatlander]

Dang, I think for my tenth birthday I got a Ric Flair action figure. I still have it, but I'd rather have a sheep.

[Don Martin]

That is absolutely outstanding! Good job to all who made it happen, and to a very good "mom" who gave up her tag to her young son!

 

Don Martin

Arizona Wildlife Outfitters

[azbow]

Pretty ram! Does this count as the boy's or the mom's one in a lifetime AZ desert ram?

[Tines]

Pretty ram! Does this count as the boy's or the mom's one in a lifetime AZ desert ram?

I'm sure the boys

[bigorange]

Congrats! awesome!

 

That was awesome to see in the paper...reminded me of growing up in TN where half the sports section was hunting and fishing photos and reports. First thing that went through my mind though was that the photo was going to offend a bunch of lefties in Tucson...the letters to the editor I've seen in response are just plain annoying and typical ignorance about how terrible hunting is and how the parents should be ashamed. We should all send in response letters explaining how hunting actually helps the management of these beautiful creatures and has improved their numbers over the years. Not that it would do any good at swaying the opinions.

 

Sorry to side-track the thread...

[bonecollector]

Wow that is a very cool bday present. Great job to the entire family.

[sandman38y]

Probably counts as his ram, but now he gets to start working towards a rocky mtn bighorn and has plenty of time to build bonous points, where most of us will be lucky to get one tag or the other. I am very jealous. Great job young man!!!!!

[cmc]

Hey guys...Take time visit the letters to the editors at the AZstarnet site and then review the comments. Hunters are getting a bad rap over that story which we are sure was the intent of it being published.

[CEI]

Great ram & story! Congrats to the entire family! He won't ever forget it!

[Santana Outdoors]

Now that is very cool!! Love to see the youth tearing it up! Thanks for posting that!

[gotcoues]

I'll probably get blasted for this, but I don't really think it's necessarily a good thing this lucky young man got to harvest a sheep.

 

I think it's a shame that loyal hunters have applied for this tag longer than the bonus point system has been around and might be unable to physically go on this hunt or even die before they can draw this tag.

 

I have applied my three children for a sheep tag since the year each of them turned ten, knowing it might take their whole life to possibly draw this tag. I wished I would have had the money and better understanding of the system, I may have bought bonus points for them long before they were ten for some of the hard to draw hunts.

 

I personally have no knowledge of this situation, but it appalls me to think, that grandparents and mom's alike are being put in for bonus points, not because they hunt, but with the intention of handing a "hunt of a lifetime" down to a person who really doesn't have a clue what he/she has been given. I cannot say I disagree totally with the handing down of tags to youngsters, but I think for sheep, antelope and early elk hunts it's not a great idea.

 

I'm happy for the young lad, he has a great looking ram there. But I find it hard to swallow that my best friend is not a spring chicken anymore, has applied for this hunt since he was a teenager and year after year it is just another "not drawn" notice waiting for him. This young man has his entire life to draw this tag, others have waited a lifetime and are still without the opportunity.

 

Just my two cents......

[Flatlander]

This young man has his entire life to draw this tag, others have waited a lifetime and are still without the opportunity.

 

Just my two cents......

One thing to consider is that young people just now beginning to apply for sheep may not EVER draw the tag. The max point pool is so far ahead of a kid just now turning 10 that in order to catch it they are simply going to have to outlive everyone else. In order to start accumulating sheep points with the intent of reaching max points, and then donating the tag to the kid, the Mom would have had to start applying 10 years before he was even born.

 

Another consideration is that if Mom donated the tag that means Mom had to go on the hunt. If she was willing to apply long enough to draw the tag, and then hike into sheep country with a 10 year old in tow, she has earned the right to let the kid take the ram, in my opinion.