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Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn
This story, “Quest for the Desert Sheep: Ram Beyond the Rampart,” appeared in the December 1975 issue of Outdoor Life.
The desert bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis nelsoni, is one of the most coveted game animals on earth. This isn’t because they inhabit particularly remote crevices of the globe or because they’re all that hard to hunt. They can be legally hunted in four Southwestern states plus part of Mexico, and the hunter success ratio runs over 50 percent in some areas.
It isn’t their magnificence as a trophy that makes desert bighorns such favorites either. The coloration of a mature ram is somewhat on the order of a corroded battery cable. His headgear is notably less impressive than that of his brethren farther to the north. Nonetheless he is No. 1 in the North American game hierarchy, for two reasons. First, he is the great stumbling block on the tortuous route to the Holy Grail of North American big game — the grand slam (Dall, Stone, Rocky Mountain bighorn, and desert bighorn). And second, licenses to hunt him are frustratingly hard to come by.
Related: Carmichel in Alaska: An Odd Way to Die on a Sheep Hunt
In 1975, for example, the four desert-sheep-hunting states — Arizona,
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The Great Jonesboro Squirrel Safari
It was a Mahler-Besse Château Biré French Bordeaux Supérieur, vintage 1995, and I had been saving that bottle of wine for more than two decades. So when my birthday fell on a Saturday that year, I decided it was time for this lovely and mysterious liquid to breathe some fresh air. I made reservations at a fine little Italian restaurant on the outskirts of Jonesboro, slipped the Mahler-Besse into a handwoven wine basket, called up our friends Jim and Linda Carmichel to see if they could join us and promised to pick them up at 5:30. My wife and daughter and I arrived at their house at 5:15.
True to form, Linda had been ready since 4:30, and Jim was still getting into his tux. By the time he made his grand entrance, I was relaxing in his trophy room salon with as lovely a bevy of beauties as a man should ever be allowed, as Jim passed through on his way to the kitchen to mix a martini. But a few seconds later he suddenly reappeared, and everything changed.
Everyone knows Jim Carmichel. As shooting editor of Outdoor Life for nearly four decades, his work defined what is inarguably the Golden Age of international big game hunting. The Jim Carmichel who had just disappeared into the kitchen was a more elegant edition of his former self, dre
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