Endangered Grizzly Bear Photo Thread

[520 Road Sow]

That's a tremendous ram man congrats

 

[andrew11]

Good job!! Thanks for getting on here and postings some pics and clearing up all the confusion.

 

[winmag]

Well that about sums up the goat rodeo that is unit 300 every year.

 

[shines@times]

When it opened mid November how long did the season last in the case that the quota wasn’t filled first? I don’t know too much about the old days.

15th of December, or there about.

 

[shines@times]

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No doubt about that ram being legal. Nice job!

 

[Brandenbowhunter]

Nice ram. The hat ain’t bad either.

Lol, people need reminding

 

[dgc1963]

That is a great ram CONGRAZT

 

[millerpaul17]

@Brandenbowhunter congrats on the ram!!

I hope everyone is as excited as i am for the opener. I have guided / assistant guided quite a few successful sheep hunts in Wyoming using horses. With the low number of sheep in these units and me being horseless i know im going to be humbled and get my ass kicked trying to find these elusive studs. When i would hunt sheep in Wyoming my thoughts weren't i hope i find a ram, they were i hope out of all the ones we find that one is big enough to spark excitement in the hunter. I have been out of the game a few years now so hopefully i can get in and just see sheep. Ewes and lambs will be fine with me! Everyone be safe and i hope you long time unlimited hunters finally connect on your ram!

 

[Brandenbowhunter]

They finally got 2020 plugs, 1st ram of the year plugged in Montana

 

[Crumb]

That’s a hell of a nice ram, congrats!!!

 

[Brandenbowhunter]

Any plans for taxidermy yet?

Full body of course, lol

 

[recurveman]

Full body of course, lol

Nice!!!!!! That would be my plan too.

 

[Ozarkian]

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Congrats man!

 

[freu1chr]

Good Luck to anyone up on the mountain today!!

 

[520 Road Sow]

I can only imagine how shitty the visibility is up there today and air quality. Good luck to everyone hopefully someone finds the band of unicorns or at least 1 unicorn.

 

[Hirtlene]

Good luck to all! Cant wait to follow the stores. Hopefully next year I'll be able to get back down to the unlimited. With the boarder closed this year its been tough thinking about chasing sheep and not being able to go.

 

[520 Road Sow]

500s already got 1

 

[smw110136]

Love following this thread and enjoy hearing everyone's experience on these hunts. I have a question for the sheep guys. Do you enjoy seeing sheep hit the quotas early in the season or do you prefer it to be drawn out? Obviously the longer the season, the better odds you may have to kill a legal ram so I can see why an Unlimited hunter wants to see the season drag on, but looking at it from a conservation/management perspective is it bitter sweet knowing the sheep populations are doing well if two legal rams are harvested early in the season? Is the length of time it takes to fill the quota indicative of how well the sheep are doing in a given unit?

 

[520 Road Sow]

Lucky NR got the first one.......

 

[520 Road Sow]

Love following this thread and enjoy hearing everyone's experience on these hunts. I have a question for the sheep guys. Do you enjoy seeing sheep hit the quotas early in the season or do you prefer it to be drawn out? Obviously the longer the season, the better odds you may have to kill a legal ram so I can see why an Unlimited hunter wants to see the season drag on, but looking at it from a conservation/management perspective is it bitter sweet knowing the sheep populations are doing well if two legal rams are harvested early in the season? Is the length of time it takes to fill the quota indicative of how well the sheep are doing in a given unit?

1.I kinda route for other hunters myself, if someone is into the hunt and putting forth the effort to do it then hell ya if they get one that's fantastic. It's a tough adventure to come out successful. Obviously it's fun to keep going and yes chances can increase especially as things get later and later but, it's still no picnic to say the least. Lots of other factors come into play especially in late October, November......

2. The quotas for every Unlimited district are fairly conservative. The sheep population is managed primarily by the Beartooths/Absarokas environment, the harvest of of these has little to no impact on the populations up there. The biologist told me once that he thinks 90 percent or more of the sheep die of old age, we could probably double the quota and it still wouldn't affect the population because we don't take any ewes......

3. No i don't believe the amount of time it takes to fill the quota has any correlation to how the sheep are doing. Some years are tougher than others to find sheep. Dryer ones seem to be the even moreso, the fact is that this is the absolute "needle in a haystack" analogy. The amount of country is unfathomable and nasty and theres just not that many of them.

All this being said I do hope to get in a trip in sometime this season however, I have some friends up there too. I hope they can connect and make it happen. Some of them much more deserving than myself on the unlimited ram....... one day maybe!