This poor guy is apparently suffering from a fungal disease, his horns were rotting away from his cores. Sent the pics to the local biologist so they could find him and inspect. What a sad pic.
Reminds me of a sheep we passed up on last year. He provided a shot each morning but we were looking for a certain kind of ram. Full curl on his left by far, broke off about 8" on his right. He was verified full curl by our pilot 2 years prior.
This is a cool bighorn that looks a lot like a stone and has a horn growing out of his nose. I guess when they split their noses, sometimes as it heals it fools the hair cells and starts a horn growrh.
Buster, that fungal diseased ram is a sore site on the eyes, poor fella for sure. Any idea if the biologist determined anything? Sure hope it isn't spreading throughout the group he's been hanging out with.
I doubt big fish will give up the location, but I would wager region 6 DNS.
Resident hunters are only harvesting about 10% of their allocated numbers of stone sheep in region 6 every year, lots of stompers dying of old age in region 6.
Nice rams BIG FISH
here's my 9 yr old stone from this year
My hunting partner counting rings, we sat on this ram at 40 yards for 45 min counting rings and waiting to make sure he was full curl