I hunted mine with Mike McKinney (West Texas Hunting Org) and had a great time. Lots of great outfitters out there at least. Being from Canada, make sure you do some planning on CITES permits and the period it takes to get permits before bringing the ram home.
I am from BC and hoping to drop down to Montana this year for the TAC. Waiting for a release date so I can see how it fits in to the plans and hopefully do some organizing!
Never shot a TAC before, but sure looking forward to it as border closures have made it tough in the past couple years.
I counted rings on my first stone sheep with a small Nikon scope at 300 yards. It wasnt ideal, but it worked for the purposes. It was a Nikon 13-30x50. Def not the best option for stone sheep hunting but ended up being ok.
This year I shot a stone on age and originally started counting rings...
Agreed there are some differences between aging by tooth and by annuli. The BC regs are clear though that a ram needs to be 8 evidenced by the annuli. So, even if a ram brooms off annuli, the ram needs to have 8 annuli clearly proving he's 8 or older.
No doubt with rockies/deserts/calis...
That night it rained most of the night, and we woke to rain. We knew it was going to be a long wet day of hiking, but ground it out and made it back to the truck by 4-4:30, soaking wet for the most part.
Sure felt great getting back and taking that pack off!!!! Thanks for following along and...
We got back to camp at 1130 that night, and enjoyed some food before bed.
The following day was cape and meat prep. We cooked some meat by the fire, enjoyed some laughs, and got the cape on salt. Cleaned up as much as we good, ate a ton of our 'extra' food and then prepared for the hike out the...
From there, it was pics and all the fun that goes with a successful hunt.
In 2019, I developed a Wild Sheep Society of BC 'Challenge Coin', and its turned into a really cool thing to carry on hunts and to any society events or fundraisers. Anyone that knows the history of challenge coins can...
"I'm going to shoot this ram" I said to Darren. I left the camera on the spotting scope and told him he could hit the record button at one point. I got comfortable on my pack and adjusted a few things with my gun. A couple ranges confirmed he was 330 yards.
I sat for a while prone on the ram...
BC has had a large number of 'illegal' rams harvested this year. So many, in fact, that the BC Conservation service reached out to the Wild Sheep Society of BC to try and get the message out about shooting rams that didnt meet the full-curl requirement and were less than 8 years old by annuli...
I've killed one Stone's sheep back in 2014, and this ram was not as big as my first, however the area we were hunting does not produce as many 'big' rams as the area I shot my first ram in. While it can happen, my understanding is the area produces smaller based rams, often that grow slower and...
I told my buddy on the night of the 4th day that I was sleeping in the following day. We had pushed hard, hiked in the nasty blizzard conditions, and overall just had a real hard day, so Day 5 was to be a bit of a 'camp day' where we could glass a few of the valleys around where we were camped...
Forgot to mention, on the morning of Day 4 when I crawled out of the tent and was shaking off the night's sleep I glanced up and noticed a goat above camp. A quick glass noted a nanny with a kid. They perched up on a rock ledge that day and ended up staying there the rest of the hunt. I'll have...