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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 2367678" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>To answer the question, what is the average range for shooting sheep is difficult because it comes down to choice. I have been in on lots of sheep kills and I have seen some real horror shows. Seeing rams from a long ways off is easy. The hard part is getting within a range that you feel comfortable with. Too many people let fly way beyond their ability and they don't seem to care that they are gambling on poor odds with that animals life. Over the years I have come across many sheep that got away and died. On one occasion I finished off a ram that had his front shoulder smashed a few days before by a hunter shooting from at least a 1000 yards. He fired sixteen rounds before he hit it. The animal didn't even know it was being shot at for the first dozen or so - and when he did hit it and it ran off, his recovery effort was half-hearted to say the least. When I found it deep in a creek bed where it was cool he was burning up with fever and full of maggots. I put him out of his misery and used my tag on him. It was all I could do to take the cape off the smell was so bad. A couple other times when I heard about long shot hits that weren't followed up I would find the animal by looking and listening for the crows a few days later. You can lob shots at sheep easily. They rest in the open rocks in the middle of the day and you can see them from miles away. Getting within a range where you feel confident in a humane kill is what sheep hunting is really about, and that depends on the quality of the hunter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 2367678, member: 91402"] To answer the question, what is the average range for shooting sheep is difficult because it comes down to choice. I have been in on lots of sheep kills and I have seen some real horror shows. Seeing rams from a long ways off is easy. The hard part is getting within a range that you feel comfortable with. Too many people let fly way beyond their ability and they don't seem to care that they are gambling on poor odds with that animals life. Over the years I have come across many sheep that got away and died. On one occasion I finished off a ram that had his front shoulder smashed a few days before by a hunter shooting from at least a 1000 yards. He fired sixteen rounds before he hit it. The animal didn't even know it was being shot at for the first dozen or so - and when he did hit it and it ran off, his recovery effort was half-hearted to say the least. When I found it deep in a creek bed where it was cool he was burning up with fever and full of maggots. I put him out of his misery and used my tag on him. It was all I could do to take the cape off the smell was so bad. A couple other times when I heard about long shot hits that weren't followed up I would find the animal by looking and listening for the crows a few days later. You can lob shots at sheep easily. They rest in the open rocks in the middle of the day and you can see them from miles away. Getting within a range where you feel confident in a humane kill is what sheep hunting is really about, and that depends on the quality of the hunter. [/QUOTE]
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