The comment in the newest issue of Grand Slam/Ovis regarding someone doing a self-guided Grand Slam overlooked a whole lot of people who can theoretically do it that way ... it is just a matter of probabilities. That opportunity is not limited to residents of BC.

Alaska and the Yukon residents could self-guide to the Grand Slam as follows: Dall and Fannin in their respective jurisdictions [also Stone in the Yukon] and then draw tags for Rocky Mountain and Desert Bighorn.

Residents of the lower 48 and Hawaii could self-guide to the Grand Slam as follows: Have an Alaska relative within 2 degrees of kinship [if I remember that correctly] so that you can hunt Alaska Dall and Fannin with them and then draw tags for Rocky Mountain and Desert bighorn.

And if the Alaska kinship opportunity applies world-wide [i.e. to an Alaska resident's relative living anywhere in the World], the opportunity to self-guide to the Grand Slam is theoretically available to all hunters world-wide.

But even if the Alaska kinship rule is limited to just U. S. citizens, there are still a lot of people who can theoretically self-guide to the Grand Slam.

oregoncarl@aol.com

oregoncarl,
I would like to find out just how many fannins are killed each year in AK. We talk about this subject when I was up there last month. My guide showed me on the map where one might find a ram of color but the area looked awful small. The stone would be by far the hardest to get self guided if you arent a resident of BC.
I wonder if my wife would mind moving North?
Bryan

Maybe Whitehorse needs an IGA. They are really taking some tremendous Stones out of the Yukon. Is the 'Fannin area' in Alaska along the Alaska-Yukon border just north of the Yukon River ... I think it abuts Dan Reynolds' Yukon hunt area. Dan is starting to get some darker rams. Now that would be a real quality outing if you want to hunt in the Yukon. Really great area and really great outfit .... but it might be at least 2012 before there is an opening. I did two hunts with them ... 1994 and 1997. Got gorgeous rams. Captain Hook is 41 1/2 by 35 1/2 at 11 years of age and Bruiser is 37 1/2 x 35 1/2 with 14 bases and 12 years of age. Nothing against 40" rams, but my wife Anna and I feel that Bruiser is the best looking of my three 'white' rams.

Carl,
It was the area boardering Dan's. I'm sure it will be just be a matter of time befor there are more colored sheep in AK. Like the trend in the Yukon.