Texas Mouflon
Jeff Cooper, Gunsite Ranch, October 1985
The mouflon (0vis musimon) is the native wild sheep of Europe. It was found in early historic times all the way around the Mediterranean, and up into the central mountains of Europe, also extending eastward through Asia Minor and farther into what are now Iran and Afghanistan. In recent times, however, it has been killed out, except for the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, which two spots were its only surviving habitat at the beginning of the twentieth century. It has now been re-stocked into some of the mountain ranges of Europe, and additionally into North America. After some sixty years, it has proliferated and may now be bunted on