Syracuse.com - New York hunter pays $300,000 for opportunity to shoot bighorn sheep in Montana

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Last month, he bought the Montana special auction license at the Wild Sheep Foundation convention in Reno, Nev.

A New York hunter paid $300,000 for this year's Montana special auction license for bighorn sheep at the Wild Sheep Foundation convention in Reno, Nev., in January, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

"The price, while not a record, ensures that the bighorn sheep tag continues to be the high interest big money tag of all the special auction tags Montana offers," the newspaper reported.

James Hens of East Berne, N.Y., bought the tag. He will be able to hunt a sheep in any Montana bighorn sheep hunting district this fall.

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