2023 Wild Sheep Meatpole Photos

[cbrown2x]

2023 NM

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[devobrodie]

Nice ram. But Dec. 23???

Sorry Dec of 22!

 

[lose_money]

Mouflon Ram at 10,000 ft on Mauna Kea Hawaii

 

[buffybr]

My Bighorn rams from Montana's Unlimited sheep units in the '80s...

And my Dall from the Mackenzie Mountains in Canada's Northwest Territory in '99

 

[Ramem7mm]

Awesome photos. Can’t wait to get one for myself.

 

[Steamer]

Aug. 10th, 7:15 AM

Had a great solo hunt & packout.
Just getting some cell service after 9 days in the field. Will give more details later.

40 1/2” x 13 1/2”, 9 years old. B&C Green Score of 165 2/8.

Edit*
Finally finished with this hunt after 15 days.
Started hiking in on Aug. 5th. After 4 days, 41 miles and 21,000 vert climbed, I was on this ram. I had climbed 4 6,000ft+ peaks and glassed a ton of terrain. This was the only mature ram seen.

Aug. 9th I spent the entire day watching and patterning this guy. I wanted to make absolutely sure he was older than 8. I have a self imposed 9 or older standard that I am adamant about sticking to. He ended up on a face directly above where I had my Hilleberg Niak set up, so was able to glass from inside my vestibule the whole day.

Aug. 10th.
He was lower on the face at 3 am, yet a mountain goat was gracing beneath him, making him uncomfortable. I had a stable shooting position and perfect environmentals for a long shot. However I couldn’t get an accurate ring count before he was pressured too far up the face and the morning started to brighten. Eventually he worked the entire way up the face and out of sight. I gathered my gear and went straight up the 1800 ft face. Eventually I was able to locate and get above & downwind of him. I made a slow stalk along the spine of the ridge and found myself directly above him at 70 yards. At 7:15 am on opening morning, one shot from my Fieldcraft 6.5CM brought him down, 10 1/2 months after the last ram!

Due to the rugged terrain and massive vertical relief, it required a double carry the entire way out. Even between 65-80 lbs for each of the two loads, depending on how I loaded, required huge amounts of concentration and effort. I experienced everything from sunny & 70 to torrential rain to a full winter storm above 6,000 ft that lasted 3 days, delaying the retrieval of the second load until it broke and I was able to navigate the terrain in a safe & responsible manner.

Overall, the packout involved 54 miles and 24,000 vertical ft of elevation gain, over the course of 4.5 days.
I was completely out on Saturday Aug. 19th.

* All mileage and vert tracked and verified from a Garmin watch. I find it interesting to track for my own reference and also to share, as I think it adds to the story being told.

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^ The start of the storm moving in.

This is an incredible story. Love the picture of the ram by itself traversing the mountain !

 

[lose_money]

A mouflon hybrid ram in Hawaii this past month

 

[AK Troutbum]

A mouflon hybrid ram in Hawaii this past month
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Nice! If you don’t mind me asking, what island?


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[lose_money]

Nice! If you don’t mind me asking, what island?


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No problem man it’s on big island

 

[Wildwillalaska]

Sort of an unplanned belated 50th birthday present to myself that I sort of stumbled into. So happy things aligned as they did too.

 

[jofes]

Sort of an unplanned belated 50th birthday present to myself that I sort of stumbled into. So happy things aligned as they did too.

We need a story!

 

[mainman38]

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Very nice

 

[Dawg In Montana]

Here are some pics from my son’s John Day Cali November rifle hunt…45 mile float on the John Day and had a blast doing it. 230 yard shot and he went down a few feet from where he was shot.

Could not have had a better trip.

 

[RiceTc]

A mouflon hybrid ram in Hawaii this past month
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Wow congrats, that’s amazing.

 

[JDOCUSMC]

He's gnarly lookin'! Congrats!

 

[TheGrayRider]

Here are some pics from my son’s John Day Cali November rifle hunt…45 mile float on the John Day and had a blast doing it. 230 yard shot and he went down a few feet from where he was shot.

Could not have had a better trip.


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I like the character of the horns on your son’s ram. Very nice. Congratulations!