Wild Horse Island bighorn transplant off to slow start

[Ptah]

Wild Horse Island bighorn transplant off to slow start



http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/wild-horse-island-bighorn-transplant-off-to-slow-start/article_39c5def2-4e17-11e1-a94e-001871e3ce6c.html

BIG ARM - More than one theory emerged Thursday morning as what has become an annual transplant
of bighorn sheep off of Flathead Lake's Wild Horse Island got off to a molasses-slow start.

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They use the helicopter to flush sheep into the open on the island. Using .308 blanks and specially made
canisters, the gunner fires a net gun out of the helicopter to trap an animal. Then a mugger leaps out and
goes to work, putting hobbles on the sheep's feet, a mask over its eyes - "That really calms them down,"
Zaczkowski said - and getting the animal untangled from the net.

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Get all 50 - FWP is aiming for five adult rams, five young rams and 40 ewes - and the Quicksilver bill will be $30,000.

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A New York hunter who had the high bid at the Wild Sheep Foundation Convention in Reno, Nev., last month
- of $300,000 - for a single 2012 Montana bighorn sheep license valid in any hunting district in the state, is paying for it.

[mdmc]

1. thats somethin you dont see everyday

[Ptah]

2. The $300,000 auction price for one bighorn permit amazes me.

That's a lot of money.