The coat is not used for wool, the Bighorn is hunted for meat and its horns. The sheep used for wool have been domesticated and bred for that trait for centuries. However, they are closely related and when the Bighorn was near extinction one of the reasons given by the leaders trying to save it was that should domestic sheep be decimated by some future disease, the Bighorn might supply new breeding stock to refresh and strengthen the gene pool of domestic sheep.
The Bighorn does have wool, hidden under smooth guardhairs like a lamb. It would not be worthwhile as a commercial source but no doubt the Bighorn, if it were domesticated, could be bred to be a wool source
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http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/bighornsheep.html

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