Thank you all for the comments. It was a wonderful hunt with my best friend. It motivated both of us to start planning for next year. My friend and his younger brother are going to get together and hunt. They lost their dad a year ago and are comming to the conclusion that they are not getting any younger either. In two hours I'll be sitting down with a buddy and going through a possible Brooks Range hunt over lunch.
One of the things that I did not bring up in my writing, but some may have noticed, is the lack of lambs. We saw three total lambs the whole trip. There also were not as many ewes as I would have expected for the habitat. In about 7 to 8 years there may not be a huntable popluation of legal rams in the TMA until the population recovers from the spring of 2013.
Ray is correct on the TMA lamb population. I spent a minute or two in the TMA this year and the outlook was very bleak. Did not see any old rams, I am putting in for permits elsewhere this year.