Endangered Grizzly Bear Photo Thread

[MTGomer]

There’s a lot of middle ground between roadside lamb and Beartooth monster.

Exhibits A and B have been entered into the evidentiary record.

 

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

I was just getting over my harebrained desire to hunt the UL's when the last four pages of conversation happened. Thanks fellas. I needed that like a hole in the head! Guess I'd better hit leg day a little harder. Maybe my sanity will return when it's time to send $1200 dollars in... I still can't believe I never tried this hunt when I was living in MT.

 

[Southern Elk]

Incredible! Looks as big as some of the rams from the breaks.

 

[520 Road Sow]

Incredible! Looks as big as some of the rams from the breaks.

Yeah that ram is better than a lot of breaks rams I've seen as of late.

There isn't a breaks ram that holds a candle to a ram like that in the UL IMO.

I'm very happy for the successful hunter, don't know him personally but what I've heard is he's a go gettin SOB and he definitely deserved a ram like that. CONGRATS TO BOB!

 

[Treeshark]

Trophy of a lifetime. Wow.

 

[Bluffgruff]

Weird because the person with the ram has several pics of themselves hunting in the UL. I’m guessing that’s the right ram and it’s a great one

I probably just don't have an ig account...

 

[winmag]

And that, my friends, is why you don't shoot the first 4.5yo lamb ram you see.

 

[520 Road Sow]

And that, my friends, is why you don't shoot the first 4.5yo lamb ram you see.

Mic drop?

 

[shines@times]

Some UL hunters might recognize the area, but the photo was shot decades ago when it was a different unit opening much later in the year. (Sorry about the blue shift, but neither the photographer nor the slides have aged well.) Moreover, all the legal rams in the unit were killed last year.

EDIT: "Moreover, all the legal rams in the unit were killed last year." TO READ: "The last legal ram in the unit was killed this year.*"

* And it was a bruiser!

 

[winmag]

Ok now who wants to crop the hunter's face and IG handle out of that photo and post it to Mr. Boddington's facebook saying "That's not an unlimited ram, THIS is an unlimited ram."?

 

[BigHornRam]

Probably not gonna go that but, I did bring something new this year and was amazed. View attachment 198681View attachment 198682

Made a hot pizza at 11k feet in while waiting one foggy afternoon.

I think you have a death wish Eyjo, the things you put in your stomach!

 

[Beignet]

I was just getting over my harebrained desire to hunt the UL's when the last four pages of conversation happened. Thanks fellas. I needed that like a hole in the head! Guess I'd better hit leg day a little harder. Maybe my sanity will return when it's time to send $1200 dollars in... I still can't believe I never tried this hunt when I was living in MT.

Ha! I’ve been talking chit about doing it for a few years now. A few weeks ago my GF bought me a fancy coffee table book about wild sheep writing in it “…hope you get one someday!” I’m going to have to put my money where my mouth is and get after it.

 

[C Bow]

It could not have happened to a more deserving and a nicer person. I am proud of you BIG DOG.

 

[520 Road Sow]

It could not have happened to a more deserving and a nicer person. I am proud of you BIG DOG.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!!!

 

[C Bow]

Health issues with my wife but things are getting better Hope everyone is well

 

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

Health issues with my wife but things are getting better Hope everyone is well

Glad to hear things are looking up C Bow!

 

[520 Road Sow]

Hope things are well @C Bow glad to hear from ya partner!

 

[BirdManMike]

SNOW TOO:

Some UL hunters might recognize the area, but the photo was shot decades ago when it was a different unit opening much later in the year. (Sorry about the blue shift, but neither the photographer nor the slides have aged well.) Moreover, all the legal rams in the unit were killed last year.

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Now, the snow to which I refer is not the obvious foreground and middle-ground stuff in the photo. What looks like clouds or fog farther up the valley is all spindrift. MT Gomer, EYJONAS and others have actually encountered more severe and deeper snowfalls in recent years than what I had to contend with in the 1980's. I guess, by mid-November, the stuff was largely worn out when I hunted. The bigger challenges were the sub-zero temperatures and the incessant high winds, which blew me off my feet on several occasions.

As Shawn Stewart explained to me ages ago, the reason that Bighorn sheep can survive Beartooth winters at all is that the wind blows so frequently and severely it constantly sweeps portions of the high plateaus to expose forage. The next photo might provide a hint of that. (It was taken near the site where I missed a nice ram by horribly under-estimating the range. I wrote about that much earlier in the thread in "More Than One Way To Miss A Ram.") Note the striations in the foreground snow.

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My understanding is that the herd in that unit has not used the traditional, mountaintop wintering grounds in over 30 years and now all winter down at the mine(s).

 

[520 Road Sow]

Boddington Ram | Definition of 'Boddington Ram' by Merriam-Webster

Noun

1. An adolescent bighorn ram that has not yet reached 4 years of age.
2. An adolescent bighorn ram who's harvest is questionable from a legal perspective.
3. An adolescent bighorn ram who's harvest by a 'conservationist' contradicts that person's conservation motives, therefore deeming their actions to be hypocritical in nature.

Synonyms for 'Boddington Ram'

Banana Ram, 1/2 Curl Ram, Dink, Adolescent, 3 year old

Examples:

He/She should not have harvested that 'Boddington Ram'.
That 'Boddington Ram' was with the ewes all summer.
I wonder what that 'Boddington Ram' would have been in 7 years.
To harvest a 'Boddington Ram' is the opposite of wild sheep conservation.

Post of the year right here. The goat speaks....

 

[BirdManMike]

Fuk it I'll do it

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I am going to need to see a picture from the side on this one before I can definitively say its legal. My goodness, the shenanigans in those mountains this year!