EP 383: Near Death and Bad Luck on a Successful Nevada Sheep Hunt

Epic Outdoors Podcast

John Petersen

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we call Nick Albonico, who helped his father hunt California Bighorn Sheep in Nevada. Hunting in the remote areas of Nevada comes with a set of challenges all their own. For a sheep hunt story where everything that can go wrong, does go wrong, listen to this episode.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Epic Outdoors podcast.
0:02.7	Check us out at Epic Outdoors.com.
0:17.2	Hey, everybody, Jason Carter, Adam Bronson, John Peterson, Devin.
0:18.6	How are you, Devin?
0:19.6	Good.
0:20.0	And Logan.
0:38.1	Anyway, coming at you from southern Utah, it's a hot Southern Utah. It feels like 85 freaking degrees out there. Bronson, how hot is it? Too hot for whatever, March 20th, 19th. I don't know. I felt like we went to the range, right, Devin? John. Yeah, and it was hot this morning.
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:54.1	Except for John, he was holding onto the barrel there at the first part of the morning. He was kind of cold. It is 34 degrees. I mean, I hit the roll this morning. Warm barrel on some cold hands. Feels good. What a good day to be out there. No wind. We did get beat by that one guy, but Yeah, he was after the same
0:56.5	Picking up brass.
0:57.7	And he was like, I'll shoot one round every 14 minutes to have the proper cool down. Yeah. And we were just lighting them off. You know. But anyway, it was awesome. We put together a couple of guns, went out there and shot them.
1:12.1	No joke.
1:15.6	How about that one guy's gun that's, I mean, anyway.
1:19.8	Sin us a rifle, bought a swarrow scope.
1:21.7	We mounted it, shot it in. Not just any scope.
1:22.6	And it was no joke.
1:23.7	An amazing scope.
1:25.1	It was.
1:26.1	It's a Z8I.
1:27.0	With an Ocho. 40 power. It was. It's a Z8I. With an Ocho.
1:27.7	40 power. 40 power. Yeah. And it was fun to shoot. You got to quantify. From zero to fully sited in. From 0,0 to 110 yards, it was like, what, what, six rounds or seven rounds? Six or seven. I know from 400 to 1,000, we just went bang, bang, bang. Yeah, like four and a quarter, seven and a quarter, one ten.
1:47.4	You'd have to be.
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