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In this Sheep Fever – Kicked Out episode, Maddie Richards sits down with John Hubbard to talk about his Yukon sheep hunt. They discuss the years of preparation, the mental and physical challenges of mountain hunting, and the powerful emotions that come with finally achieving a lifelong goal in one of North America’s most remote places.

In this Sheep Fever – Kicked Out debut episode, Maddie Richards sits down with Mike Aiazzi to talk about his Nevada sheep hunt. They cover what it meant to draw a coveted tag, the challenges of Nevada’s terrain, the role of family, and how the hunt ties into Mike’s work with the Wild Sheep Foundation.

What happens when a handful of raffle tickets collide with a little opportunity and a lot of good luck?  The answer: someone is kicked from the <1 Club! Ray Maack is one such someone. After winning an Alberta bighorn sheep hunt at the 2024 Sheep Show®, Ray drove from his home in Oregon to Alberta, Canada, where he battled harsh weather, steep mountains, and blisters, all for a shot at one magnificent rocky mountain bighorn. In typical sheep hunt fashion, this one came down to the wire. 

It’s not hard to kill sheep, it’s hard to find them. That’s what I had heard after I drew my first tag in Nevada for a California bighorn. The exact opposite turned out to be true. We saw sheep every day! Getting to them was the hard part. My son Henry was with me every day of the hunt and was next to me when we belly crawled about 200 yards to get within shooting range. We had passed on larger rams than the one I took, but I was just incredibly happy that I could take a once-in-a-lifetime California bighorn sheep.