JY’s Blog

Are you SHEEP SHAPE? Here are special instructions, including a reprinted article and an instructional video, on preparing for your mountain hunt! (Unedited version of this article reprinted by permission from the October 2008 issue of Sports Afield magazine)   My title may sound a little trite, since many people have used it since my original article by this name in Safari magazine in 1988. I really don’t mind people using the phrase without giving me due credit, but nevertheless I feel that it’s still my title and as far as I’m aware it’s also my term coinage. And thus […]

Linda and I were very busy on our mission trip to Kenya, where I did a lot of cataract operations and saw tons of clinic patients. The photo is after a full day of surgery.  

It took 25 years for me to draw a Nevada desert bighorn tag, and I filled it after five tough days of hunting in Unit 271. The ram was the second-best we saw (out of some 50 rams) and scored near 160. I was guided by Cary Jellison of G&J Outfitters, and he did an excellent job. The ram was the second-largest taken in the unit by 42 hunters over the past 6 years. It completes for me a long-awaited second Grand Slam. A great hunt! J.Y.

I recently returned from a hunting trip to Armenia. I was hunting Armenian mouflon, one of the hardest animals in the world to take from native habitat, and I was unsuccessful. I’ll be returning for another try later this year. However, I did take a huge bezoar ibex, and a picture accompanies. Blessings to you! J.Y.