Opening Day Ram

[mwhamm]

Took this guy with OTC tag in the kenai mountains on opening morning. 37.5" horns and 10 years old. Solo hunt. Starting the hunt it was forecast for 5 days of rain and high mountain winds. The weather man was right for once... It rained hard most days, but it cleared at the right moments for me to put together a stalk on this guy at 6:30 on opening day. I started at. 2:30 am climbing the mountain in the dark to meet him on his bed at daybreak. It almost went as planned. Fog and rain kept me shivering and with no visibility from about 5:00 am till 6:30. Once it cleared for a moment I realized where I needed to be and a few minutes latter he was in my crosshairs.

One shot at 100 yards and he was down and rolling... Off a 80' cliff and 500' down a rock gully. It took me two hours to reach him and work him out of the rock gully.

He's my best ram to date and I'm tickled to have taken him on a solo hunt on the kenai. Four out of the seven ranges down, now just the Chugach, Talkeetnas, and White mountains.

 

[Yellowknife]

Nice! Kenai has got to be one of the toughest to check off the list. Did you single trip or double trip it out?

 

[muleman]

Congrats on a nice ram!

 

[Buster]

Solo ram, fantastic.

 

[mwhamm]

It was one supper heavy load up and out of there. I took it a couple hundred yards at a time and somehow made. I took inspiration from others who had done it before.

 

[ol490]

Solo Kenai ram of 37" and 10 yrs old will be hard to top. Congratulations!!

 

[RedStag]

Wow, great ram. Solo to boot in some amazing country. nice work, thanks for posting

 

[Becca]

Wonderful, that's quite a ram! Congratulations!

 

[mwhamm]

The live photo was taken on my iPhone through my spotting scope the day before the season. It was my first time digi scoping on a hunt. I really enjoyed it and felt it was a nice addition to the hunt experience.

https://vimeo.com/103305572

This a video I took the day before the season opened, I'm not sure how the upload will turn out but it's high quality on my phone.

 

[AK Troutbum]

Sweet!! Congratulations man. Gotta love it when a plan comes together.

 

[luke moffat]

That is a gorgeous sheep!! The fact that you did it solo in the Kenais with some fair less than stellar weather is way impressive!!! Congrats on a super well earned trophy indeed!

 

[Timberghost]

Congrats. That's super impressive.

 

[mtnwrunner]

Way to get it done. Congrats.

Randy

 

[tallbuck]

CONGRATULATIONS of a FANTASTIC RAM! Very Impressive!

 

[bz_711]

Very Nice! Job well done.

 

[Wingert]

That is a fantastic ram from the Kenai, Mwhanm!!! Would you mind providing the setup you're using for digi-scoping? The model of spotting scope, and specific model of the digi-scope adapter you're using for your iPhone? Great live video. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Awesome ram, love seeing the photos from up north.

 

[Daniel_M]

Harvest in the Kenai? Dang man! Rugged as hell.

 

[CGSwimmer25]

Congrats on a great ram, love the chocolate horns on that guy!! That digiscope photo is awesome!!

 

[back country]

That is an awesome ram! Way to get it done! I really like the second pic where his head is resting on the rock and you can see how impressive both his full curl horns are. That is some good stuff.