Our youth hunt with the son of D. Enloe was a fantastic time once again! While hunting hogs on Clover Creek Ranch, he was using a 30-60 Winchester www.winchesterguns.com along with 180 grain wad cutter factory bullets www.winchester.com , Leopold binoculars www.leupold.com , kings camo www.kingsoutdoorworld.com and Buck knives www.buckknives.com were used to skin this perfect hog. This excellent meat hog weighed in at about 200 pounds. After a great pursuit, and many other exotic trophy animals looked over, our hunter chose to harvest this hog with a single shot at 110 yards!
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. He is also available via email at swebb@ee-gogreen.com. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
– Meat Hunts –
Some hunters want to shoot a younger bull in order to take home prime bison meat. In this case, we select an 18-30 month old bison. Grass fed animals are available for those desiring this type of finish. These animals will weigh around 1100-1200 pounds and produce a hanging carcass of approximately 650 pounds. You can still have a beautiful robe made. The skull and horns will naturally be smaller than that of a large trophy bull. There is no finer eating than this! Cost of these hunts is $3,950 and includes all of the amenities associated with the trophy hunt. (Includes meals and lodging and 1 non-hunting companion.)
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
Last week, they were racing across the northeast Nevada sage. Today, they’re learning about their new digs 450 miles to the north-northwest in South-central Washington. In a lightning-fast move, 100 antelope were captured Saturday by the Nevada Department of Wildlife and dozens of volunteers, and 99 were driven in livestock trailers to the Mabton area of the Yakama Nation’s reservation and released.
“I had the last load, and unloaded them at 12:45 a.m.” Sunday morning, says Glenn Rasmussen of the Central Washington Chapter of Safari Club International. “Oh, yeah (it’s exciting). This is something we’ve been working on for a long time.” He says his organization had first tried to work with the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife on reintroduction, including doing studies of potential release sites. But when that didn’t pan out, they found that the Yakamas were interested in bringing the so-called “speed goats” back to the reservation.
“It’s their project, we just arranged the financing,” says Rasmussen.
A HELICOPTER IS USED TO HERD THE ANIMALS TOWARDS NET TRAPS. (COURTESY SCI-CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER)
He says that nine or ten bucks rode back in crates on a flatbed driven by tribal representatives. Due to the federal holiday, Yakama wildlife officials were unavailable for comment. Antelope were gone from Washington by the mid-1800s, but four releases were made between the Great Depression and the Vietnam War era, according to a 2008 article by the Seattle PI. The animals hung on on the Yakima Training Center, but over time the population waned and disappeared.
“We don’t know if it was soldiers shooting them or what,” says Rasmussen. The idea for reintroducing the species came when the club was looking for a conservation project. “My son, Eric, made the suggestion, ‘Why don’t we reintroduce antelope into Washington?” he says.
WORKERS HOLD UP AN IV DRIP BAG FOR AN OVERHEATED ANTELOPE. (COURTESY SCI-CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER)
A year ago, it looked as if it was on, but a helicopter crash scrapped plans to trade live buffalo from the Yakamas for antelope from the Duck Valley Reservation on the Nevada-Idaho line, Rasmussen says. He has high praise for NDOW: “Boy, that Nevada game department is efficient.” They were assisted by Nevada Bighorns Unlimited.
A DOE IS JUST ABOUT TO BE LOADED INTO A LIVESTOCK TRAILER FOR TRANSPORTATION TO WASHINGTON. (COURTESY SCI-CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER)
After the animals were netted, they were blindfolded and hobbled and taken to a staging area where a veterinarian drew blood samples and gave them shots, Rasmussen says. Then they were moved into waiting trailers. “That was the rodeo part — loading them in,” he says. “Every time you opened the door, the others were jumping to get out.”
CAPTURED AND TAGGED ANTELOPE AWAIT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR JOURNEY NORTH TO WASHINGTON. (COURTESY SCI-CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER)
Ironically, the one radio-collared antelope in the bunch escaped. Rasmussen says they were given drugs for the ride back, a rainy slog north up U.S. Highway 93 then west on I-84. He drove a couple dozen animals to Washington. “Releasing them was real simple, and was almost an anticlimax,” he says. One in Rasmussen’s trailer had a broken leg and had to be put down, however.
THE BUCKS WERE TRANSPORTED IN CRATES. (COURTESY SCI-CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER)
The tribe identified 40,000 acres of the reservation that would make “fair to good” habitat for the species, although there’s currently also an overpopulation of mustangs on its 1.2 million acres. A grad student may follow the herd around, Rasmussen says. “If there’s a huntable population, that’s fine,” he says, “but I don’t think anyone’s concerned about that. When you travel through Wyoming, it’s just nice to see them. I don’t expect to go shoot them.”
A NEW HOME, A NEW RANGE FOR A NEVADA DOE RELEASED ONTO THE YAKAMA RESERVATION SOUTH OF MABTON. (COURTESY SCI-CENTRAL WASHINGTON CHAPTER)
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
Read this great re-telling of her trip and how it effected her life!
Shelby’s Trip to Clover Creek Ranch via SCI
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
America’s Premier Hunting, Fishing and Outdoor Sports Show
Clover Creek Ranch will be at the International Sportsmen’s Exposition in Sacramento, CA from January 19-22, 2012! Check out www.sportsexpos.com. This is an exciting time for the ranch and the first time it has even been to a national show or any show at all! This is THE largest Hunting and Fishing show on the West Coast and we were invited by some of the very best in the industry! We will be exhibited at the ISE to gain more exposure to our extended local customer base. The ISE has such a strong presence in the Western United States and draws outdoor enthusiasts from throughout the region.
For 36 years the International Sportsmen’s Exposition (ISE) events have presented America’s premier adventure-travel, hunting, fishing, shooting-sports, boat and camping products and services to outdoor enthusiasts at events held during the first quarter throughout the largest western United States markets.
Each of the five ISE shows display from 300 to more than 600 leading resorts and lodges, outdoor-product manufacturers, boat dealers, regional and specialty retailers, hunting and fishing guides and outfitters, national and local conservation organizations, state and federal government agencies, and nonprofit groups.
Current partnerships with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation www.rmef.org and American Fly Fishing Trade Association www.affta.com result in booths and show features that appeal to large audiences, even as the ISE events help those leading nonprofit entities expand their membership count.
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
As many of you LIG readers know, my grandaughter had a brain tumor the size of an orange removed in February 2011 by the great team at Doernbeckers. She’s doing AMAZINGLY well & thanks for your prayers. I put her name in for the SCI Youth hunt at Clover Creek Ranch this year. She, ( and several other ifish member’s children) were selected to participate. If I said she had a great time I would be the master of understatement!!!!!
Our team included a pair of long time friends, Chris M. & Jeff W. They treated her like she was golden! Chris guided and Jeff ran the video camera. Early the first morning, they got her on a nice Corsican ram. One shot from “my” 7mm-08 and he took two steps and fell over dead as puppy love. (The reason MY is in quotes is she told her grandma on the phone, “Grandpa doesn’t know it yet but I’m going to inherit that gun.”)
We’d talked about how she would handle the death of the animal on the ride over. As soon as she made her shot I ran down to her. She jumped up, hugged me, and said, “See Grandpa, I told you I’d be okay with it”, smiling from ear to ear. We took photos & video, then loaded her ram in Chris’ truck & looked for another animal for the other youngster Chris & Jeff were guiding. After a walk and no animals we went back to the skinning shack and she jumped right in with the knife her grandma, “the Admiral” & I had given her as a birthday ( next week) present.
As soon as she was done with the dressing of her animal, she started asking if she could hunt deer with me & her uncle, “Elk Camp Rodge” this year…Jeff, who is also ECR’s boss, told her that if ECR would not take her, all she had to do was tell him and he’d give him lousy shifts & duties until he did…She glowed thinking of the power she’d hold over her uncle. With all that she had been through, it was wonderful to see her so happy!!!!!!!!
Her mother told me that she talked non-stop for over two hours when she got home! Her mom was also very grateful that she got to keep the meat….they are going though some very hard times financially & will put it to good use. Though I am not a member anymore due to limited retirement income, SCI does AMAZING things for hunters & has obviously brought another gal into our family of hunters. I strongly urge you to become a member & become involved in their conservation projects. (All of the ten youth were given bat house plans & asked to put up two in their neighborhoods for their contribution).
All of the youth hunters were also donated a hunter orange vest & a FREE shoulder mount of their animals! So thanks must also go to those taxidermists who donate their time to mount the animals. Kyrah has the Portland SCI banquet on her calandar and is looking forward to going & seeing her new friends, Jeff & Chris again as well as “Dabbad” & his son, “Rockhound” who were in charge of this years hunt @ Clover Creek Ranch, cooked our (WONDERFUL) first meal at the ranch and 1000′s of other unseen duties!!!!!!
Written by: SCI Portland Chapter
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
We are now accepting bookings for March and April 2012 for ½ day hog hunting in Oregon. Join us in the exciting pursuit of our meat hogs. These tasty animals weigh approx #150-#200 pounds. $550 each hog, no daily fee! For the half day hunts they are performed in the morning after 9am. Call for details!
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
Watch Rick Young as he travels to Clover Creek Ranch in Oregon to sponsor a SCI Youth Hunt!!
http://www.myoutdoortv.com/hunting/cliffs-wild-outdoor-adventures/sci-youth#
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!
G. Ramirez harvested this awesome Barbados Black Belly Sheep with a single shot H&R .410 Gauge Pardner series rifle. This can be seen at hr1871.com. This versatile and economical shotgun design has changed very little since it was first built back in 1893, because it works! Our hunter at Clover Creek Ranch was also using Winchester slug Super-X ¾ ounce slug in 3 inches! Wow does that pack a wallop! You can find this at winchester.com.
This great rifle was topped off with a BSA Gold Star line of riflescope scope. The Gold Star™ line of riflescopes represent the pinnacle of BSA® performance optics, exceptional clarity and resolution. The 6X zoom system, a perfected optical design, EZ Hunter reticle, precision W/E adjustment and fully multi-coated optics, offer “THE” complete package. Side parallax available on some models at bsaoptics.com.
This was an amazing hunt with a spot and stock hunt that took almost 3.5 hours from the time he was originally spotted! This great Barbados Black Belly sheep was originally developed by the Pirates and people of the Caribbean. This animal has African ancestry, but more likely it was developed by the people on the islands from sheep brought by ships fairly early in the times when Europeans first arrived. This guy was was taken at 95 yards with a single shot here at Clover Creek Ranch!
Barbados Black Belly sheep
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Clover Creek Ranch is located just 90 minutes from Portland, Oregon. If you would like to book an exotic hunt and have the time of your life please call Shon Webb at 360-606-5428. We harvest Bison, Yak, Water Buffalo, Exotic Sheep, Exotic Goat and Hog year round in Central Oregon of the Pacific Northwest United States.
We are the premier destination for Bison and Exotic game in the Northwest!