HUNTER "SHOTS"

Randy,

Thanks. You and Bret were amazing guides. Your level of service and dedication are second to none. You are both very professional as well as just plain good people. Hopefully you can now rest with less stress!! Thanks again. We spoke often of wanting this hunt to be a great experience. Well, I certainly had a great experience...and then some...and then some more! Every time I look at that ram on my wall the whole flood of experiences will come racing back. I've thought a lot about us speaking of being "snake bitten" during this hunt. In retrospect I don't think that is an accurate statement. I think getting to spend over 30 days with good friends and family in rugged wilderness, seeing around 150 beautiful rams, and working repeatedly to near exhaustion (both mentally as well as physically) is anything but being snake bit. I don't know how much (if any) God really cares about my success in hunting but I do know that beginning long before we started actually hunting I was praying that this hunt that could complete 2 very long term and significant goals of mine (Full Curl and North American 27) would be extra meaningful to me. As I reflect back on it now, I honestly don't know how it could have accomplished that purpose any better. Winning in triple overtime will always be far sweeter and more memorable than any blow out win. Thanks again for your expert and professional help in bringing this to fruition. I consider this to be an answer to my prayers in the best way possible.

Dr. Kirk Winward

Randy and Brett,

I just want to thank you for the greatest hunt I have ever been on! When you said, "hunting desert sheep on the Escalante was a very challenging experience, you were not exaggerating." I am sure I had the best possible guides I could have ever had. Hunting with Brett, his dad Nolan, and packers Zach and Riley was a blast. I only regret that I can only do that hunt once. Maybe we can now hunt elk together in Utah in the near future. Again, thanks for all you have done for me.

Dr. Darren Kay

Tuscon, AZ

Randy,

All the people in the camp on my recent sheep hunt with HIGH DESERT were true sportsmen and great ethical people. I've been on several hunts with you guys and I appreciate your hard work and dedication. I have had many great and exciting hunts in my life all over the world but none better than this one!!!

Also Randy, please give your wife my love as she prepared so much delicious food. The other wives did likewise and that made an added wonder to this great hunt.

Carpe’ Diem

Now please come and get your books, each of you!!

FRED MORRIS

SLC, Utah

Randy,

I was so blessed when I drew the once in a lifetime desert sheep tag in Utah. Hunting desert sheep had always been my dream, but I truly believed I would never draw a tag. I literally cried the day I found out I drew a tag. I was absolutely determined to hunt my ram with a bow since I had already killed a dall ram and a bighorn ram with my bow. I knew this would be a very difficult task. I was torn between doing the hunt on my own or hiring a guide. I knew that ultimately this would be my one and only chance to hunt desert bighorn and I wanted all the help I could get. I made the right decision.

Randy was invaluable to the success of my hunt. He treated me like a hunting buddy rather than my guide. I met him for the first time when he took us out on a scouting trip before the season began. I felt like I already knew him from the countless conversations we continually had discussing the hunt. After spending a few days with him scouting for sheep I knew I had a friend for life. He wasn't just any guide. I felt like he cared more about my success than if it were his own tag. He took the time to answer all my questions and then some. He has been a positive and reassuring friend from the time I drew the tag to this very day. Not just on the hunt.

I had stalks on trophy quality rams every single day I hunted. Randy was so patient knowing that if I had been carrying a rifle the hunt would be over, but he continued to support my dream of taking this ram with a bow day after day. When I finally took my ram I truly felt that it was not my success, it was a team success. Randy is an excellent guide and even better person.

Rebecca Francis

www.rebeccafrancis.com

Randy and Brett,

I just wanted to take a minute to tell the crew at High Desert a heart-felt, thank you. I never imagined I'd be drawing my once in a lifetime Desert Sheep tag with only five points, needless to say, I was ecstatic. I'll be the first to admit my knowledge about sheep hunting was extremely limited, I'd only been able to admire everyone else's successful sheep hunts, but now it was my turn. I also knew very little about the particular unit I had drawn my tag for. Within a few days after drawing I had started to do some research about my hunt. I was told how tough, and physically demanding my hunt would be, by literally every person I had talked to, not to mention the sheep numbers had been rapidly falling over the last decade. Some people even said I might be lucky to see "a sheep." I had heard countless recommendations for High Desert Wild Sheep Guides, and within a week after drawing I had contacted them.

I found Randy and Brett to be very helpful with all of my questions, and told them I would be getting back to them shortly. After tossing the idea of going guided on this hunt for a week after speaking with Randy, I had made up my mind- I was going to use Randy and Brett's services. I just didn't want to risk going into this hunt blind. These guys had been on this unit for over twenty years, and knew it better than anyone.

Over the summer I was fortunate enough to join the guys on a couple scouting trips and a hunt. I had learned a lot about sheep in a couple of the trips, and felt like I had known these guys for a long time. My hunt had finally arrived, we met on a Friday night and made our journey into the unit with full packs, and head lamps on. It lived up to be as rugged as everyone said it would be. Over the next few days we hunted very hard and it was clear the unit was not like it used to be. After 8 days of sun-up to sun-down we had finally tagged a great, old ram. I couldn't have been happier with the whole experience. Brett and Randy were as hard of hunters as I've ever been around, but more importantly, they are good friends and I feel like I have made friends for life.

Colton Giles

HIGH DESERT,

I just wanted to take a minute and share a heart felt thank you. As you know, the odds were stacked against us. Only having the last four days of the late season Bison hunt on the Henrie mountains was going to be tough. The bison had been pushed all over the mountains, there was a full moon, and plenty of constant pressure from hunters still trying to fill tags. This is where HIGH DESERT WILD SHEEP GUIDES shined the

Randy, Bret,

What a marvelous experience I had chasing Desert Bighorn Sheep around the red rocks and sand dunes of Southern Utah. For my first ever sheep hunt the story could not have been crafted any better. The habitat was much more remote and rugged than I had ever imagined. To think that any animal could call this uninhabitable country home is beyond belief. Even more difficult to believe is how you guys can actually find sheep in their own backyard with the success that you do. To me it seemed an un-daunting task of looking for a "needle in a hay stack" with the needle always moving around!

Randy, Brett, and Miller,

Nick and I would like to thank you for the trip of a lifetime! We had an awesome experience! It was great to see how the

Randy,

After taking a Utah Rocky in 1999 and then a ARRO Dall ram in 2002 I felt like I had won the lottery when I found out in May 2011 that I had drawn a Utah Escalante Desert tag. The first calls I made were to my wife and boys and the next call was to Randy Johnson asking him if he would guide me on this hunt of a lifetime. I had long known if I got lucky with this tag that I wanted to go with nobody else but Randy and his crew. They have long had the reputation of being the best at what they do within the sheep hunting community.

On October 27th, after many unexpected challenges that made it seem like I would never get to go on this hunt, I took my ram with Randy and my two sons by my side. I was also lucky enough to have Randy and his partner Brett Caldwell on my hunt as I was the last hunt for High Desert this year. These guys worked harder than anyone could ever imagine to get us into this inhospitable country and make sure I got my ram. I have nothing but praise, admiration and respect

HIGH DESERT TEAM,

Sheep Guides, my hind quarters, you are elk hunters, and you know it!!!!

I had the privilege of bowhunting elk on the Beaver unit with HIGH DESERT WILD SHEEP GUIDES Bryant and Randy Johnson last week (Sept. 2012). Hunting is enjoyable, tagging out is a great bonus, but spending time with true hunters and friends in the high country is the real deal. As soon as you spend time with Bryant and Randy, it does not take you long to realize the quality people with whom one is dealing. I was lucky enough to personally meet Bryant and Randy"s family and soon realized the true "definition" of family. I was honored to be exposed, in a small way, to that beautiful family dynamic.

Randy,

Hope your legs are healing as I know you are getting ready for your next adventure on the Escalante. Wanted to express my thanks for helping me successfully conclude my once in a lifetime “Dirty Devil Desert Sheep Hunt.” Wow, what an

I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation for the Desert Sheep Hunt of a lifetime! Not only was it a fabulous hunt, which I killed a very special ram on, but it was with some very special old and new friends. In High School

I have hunted with Randy for many years. We have hunted sheep, deer, goats, horns, and to explore new routes to get into some of the most remote country in the world. I can’t think of another guide who I would have more faith in to get the job done and do it the right