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<blockquote data-quote="John McLaughlin" data-source="post: 2054664" data-attributes="member: 107220"><p>Littlebighorn saw griz while Stone's sheep hunting. I too have hunted Stone's twice and on both hunts was within 200 yards of one large boar and a sow with two cubs on the second go-round. In my case I had the same guide on both hunts. A licensed guide is required by BC law for non resident aliens, and both hunts he was unarmed. This man had guided for 39 rams at the time in both BC and the Yukon. He later was a licensed big game outfitter and owned a hunting concession in the chilcotin region of BC for several more years. Some of the game available in that area were big horn sheep and griz. After I sighted in before the hunt he apparently decided not to bring any hardware. These were fourteen day horseback hunts, each of us leading a pack horse as well as riding our mounts.</p><p>If I was going on a back pack sheep hunt in griz country I would take my 340 Mag in case I met a big bruin while carrying out meat, hide and horns. I have walked thru thickets of alders on trails where generations of griz have mashed the lichen down, leaving a bare depression in the moss and dirt where generations of bears had placed each paw. Meeting a griz in that country would be very up close and personal. Sheep are mostly found above timberline. When the hunter is coming out down thru the alders and spruce thickets hoping to find a moose trail to make it a bit easier I'd have a round chambered and ready for action. I much prefer to be able to at least help myself in a dangerous situation and not to hope a guide would come to my rescue. JM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John McLaughlin, post: 2054664, member: 107220"] Littlebighorn saw griz while Stone's sheep hunting. I too have hunted Stone's twice and on both hunts was within 200 yards of one large boar and a sow with two cubs on the second go-round. In my case I had the same guide on both hunts. A licensed guide is required by BC law for non resident aliens, and both hunts he was unarmed. This man had guided for 39 rams at the time in both BC and the Yukon. He later was a licensed big game outfitter and owned a hunting concession in the chilcotin region of BC for several more years. Some of the game available in that area were big horn sheep and griz. After I sighted in before the hunt he apparently decided not to bring any hardware. These were fourteen day horseback hunts, each of us leading a pack horse as well as riding our mounts. If I was going on a back pack sheep hunt in griz country I would take my 340 Mag in case I met a big bruin while carrying out meat, hide and horns. I have walked thru thickets of alders on trails where generations of griz have mashed the lichen down, leaving a bare depression in the moss and dirt where generations of bears had placed each paw. Meeting a griz in that country would be very up close and personal. Sheep are mostly found above timberline. When the hunter is coming out down thru the alders and spruce thickets hoping to find a moose trail to make it a bit easier I'd have a round chambered and ready for action. I much prefer to be able to at least help myself in a dangerous situation and not to hope a guide would come to my rescue. JM [/QUOTE]
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