Help aging rams ? Family banter

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Ok , me and my uncle love to banter with each other on our sheep and elk .
he ribs me that his is older and mine is younger and big for it’s age ?
I get messed up counting annuli vs false annuli
i need to get a picture of his from alaska and which drainage system for comparison by more experienced eyes

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Side view would help, or at least for me it would.

I’m getting 6 or 7 but my eyes are fresh and not experienced.
 
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Granted I have not yet sheep hunted but I try and age them in pictures or on mounts every chance I get and dont know a fraction of what these experienced hunters know, but I am getting him at 6 or 7 also.
 

207-12A

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I’ve got 7 but would need a side view. He definitely had some easy years, that’s a ton of length between annuli
 

jhm2023

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That ram looks like he may have had some easy winters with those barely visible annuli, but I'm leaning towards 7. A view of the back of the horns would be helpful.
 

ColeyG

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At least 7, maybe an 8th year hiding under hair at the base. More views of both horns needed to be accurate. Definitely a challenging horn configuration, growth pattern, and color. Cool ram.
 

MBN

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Looks like 6 to me, do you know what it measures? What general area was it taken?
 
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Rambucsabillbul

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Tough angle to age accurately.
Need a pure on side view.
Also the hair can hide another ring.
Judging by what I see, 6-7
 

Larry Bartlett

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looks like about 4-5 years before its death there was maybe a hard winter and perhaps a couple annuli close together.

what did the biologists claim was the age?

Looks a lot like the Alaska Range genetics to me
 
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