FORT ROBINSON STATE PARK, Neb.—A Lincoln hunter who won Nebraska’s lottery for a permit to hunt bighorn sheep in the state this year has bagged his prize.
Brent Bollwitt shot the full-curl ram last week near Fort Robinson State Park in western Nebraska.
Nebraska Game and Parks officials estimate the ram was about 9 years old.
Bollwitt’s permit was one of only two issued in Nebraska this year. His $25 application was selected at random from more than 1,500 who entered.
The other permit went to John Marsh of Topeka, Kan., who paid $80,000 for it. He bagged an 11-year-old ram on Dec. 1 near Fort Robinson.
No bighorn sheep season is scheduled for 2010, due to a small number of younger rams recruiting into the population.
Bighorns were reintroduced to the state in 1981.
