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by worthless-trash 620 days ago
I'm even confused about hunting sheep. Modern domestic sheep are not much of a challenge.
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Their cousins in the wild are extremely challenging to hunt. Especially since they are pretty rare and range across massive areas. Hybridization is one method of causing a species to become functionally extinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighorn_sheep

https://www.montana.edu/screel/teaching/bioe-440r-521/docume...

These are wild sheep not the domesticated sheep check out the picture at the beginning of the article. The difficulty is in finding them most of the time and getting close enough to shoot them ethically. A failed hunt is basically a long back country hiking vacation, a successful one isn't much different it just includes a shoot, some basic butchery, and a hike back out with even more weight.
A domestic sheep isn't a challenge because they are located in places conducive to domestication.

A wild bighorn sheep lives remotely and is highly skittish.

Very few animals are any kind of challenge against modern firearms.
I'll see your horns and raise you an RPG guy and an F-24.