Hunting & Fishing Field Guide

Blackpowder Bighorn on Beatys Butte

Sykes put down the phone and told his customers he had to go outside. He shut the door and stepped out into the alley. Here, with no one to see him, he did his happy dance.

He’d made the phone call to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to check on the results of his tag applications and learned he’d drawn hunt No. 570C for bighorn sheep in Oregon’s controlled hunt lottery.