Every hunter with a thirst for adventure dreams about hunting wild sheep.

Most of us will never be able to afford one of the classic big horn species.

But you can still, if you're willing to save a little bit, you can put together enough

for an Aaudad ram, and we're here to talk about that today.

I'm Joseph von Benedict with the Backinter

hunting podcast. I've got Colton Heward here sitting with me. He does our

scouting and navigating segment and my good pal Brad Fitzpatrick outdoor gun writer

Hunts a lot does a lot of shotgunning a lot of rifle work. He's pretty good all-around

wordsmith. We're sitting down in a hotel in Great Falls, Montana. We've spent a day at a

media event checking out some new models that are going to be introduced soon.

Kind of fun stuff, doing some that are going to be introduced soon.

Kind of fun stuff, doing some shooting and hobnobbing and rubbing shoulders with some good

friends for the first time in a long while because of this dang COVID shut down. It's been good. Anyway, welcome to the show today folks. Thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having us. All right, so all of us here have hunted Aaudad.

I don't think any of us have hunted them nearly enough.

No.

That's one of those things.

Once you've tried it, you get a thirst for going back for the most part.

The good thing is, at least at this point in time, it's still a relatively affordable hunt.

I want to talk about cost of such a hunt, planning for such

a hunt, and what folks can expect and why it's kind of called that poor man's

big horn, or even more appropriately, the poor man's desert, big horn, because of the terrain it

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