Just when ewe thought it was safe to go back to Montana, now we see that a Montana Man is giving Florida Man a run for his money, and having a baaad time. A Vaughn, Montana man, one Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, has pled guilty to breeding giant hybrid sheep.
According to court documents, Schubarth conspired with at least five other individuals between 2013 and 2021 to create a larger hybrid species of sheep that would garner higher prices from shooting preserves. Schubarth brought parts of the largest sheep in the world, Marco Polo argali sheep (Ovis ammon polii), from Kyrgyzstan into the United States without declaring the importation. Average males can weigh more than 300 pounds with horns that span more than five feet. Marco Polo argali are native to the high elevations of the Pamir region of Central Asia. They are protected internationally by the Convention on…
