MT Ram

[520 Road Sow]

I think we need @Big Fin to make a t-shirt available. Hunttalk logo on the front, "only the ram knows" on the back.

That's not his saying to trademark, and not even mine to either.

There better not end up with a shirt that has fresh tracks on the front and only the ram knows on the back.

 

[Southern Elk]

That's not his saying to trademark, and not even mine to either.

There better not end up with a shirt that has fresh tracks on the front and only the ram knows on the back.

All the profit goes to The Ram.

 

[timmy]

Seeing an 82 year old kill a ram like that not off the road, I suspect will be the best thing this thread has to offer. That is heartbreaking if you are the other hunter but I thought about that all day today. I’ll be dead by then. Congrats to the hunter and good luck greenhorn you certainly got your moneys worth with your tag hope it works out.

 

[Point Creep]

Wasn’t going to post, but 6 Green cans says otherwise. Hats off to Jim Boorman.

Fun facts - his rifle is a Remington 76 pump action 30-06. The composite stock was hand made by him. As was his knife he let me cape his ram with. Scope was a Bushnell Banner, upgraded due to problems with his Tasco. His shot was roughly 300 yards resting over one hiking pole.

 

[Point Creep]

So much more to this story..

 

[seeth07]

Wasn’t going to post, but 6 Green cans says otherwise. Hats off to Jim Boorman.

Fun facts - his rifle is a Remington 76 pump action 30-06. The composite stock was hand made by him. As was his knife he let me cape his ram with. Scope was a Bushnell Banner, upgraded due to problems with his Tasco. His shot was roughly 300 yards resting over one hiking pole.

What? You don't need 10k worth of gear to kill a sheep?

Absolutely love it. Old timers are the best and teach us so much about how spoiled and we all are.

 

[Point Creep]

I decided yesterday my hunt was over - but also wanted a beautiful Spanish Peaks ram for my wall and had a few days left. It’s not the Boorman ram - but I am so happy. I’m hoping my plug can be MT88.

 

[Hem]

I damn near feel the same rush when I killed my ram.

 

[Point Creep]

My friend Jake was along and he can take photos - haven’t seen any but I suspect they are something special. Here’s one from my phone.

 

[timmy]

Excellent

 

[BenInMT]

Did you lose your job over all of this? I got $20 for the gofund me

 

[woods89]

You look tired........

#iranoutofMtnOps13daysago

 

[Hem]

Did you lose your job over all of this? I got $20 for the gofund me

...." funny?...like a clown?"

 

[Dsnow9]

Awesome ram and experience! So excited for you and your experience! Do you end up shooting the ear tag ram @Greenhorn?

 

[Gerald Martin]

Congrats Kurt. You certainly earned it!

 

[geetar]

Nice ram @Greenhorn congrats!

 

[Southern Elk]

He looks like a brute. Congrats!

 

[Corn king 60]

Congrats . Beautiful ram,picture, and story. I for one am sad it’s over I’ve had a blast following. Looking forward to (Paul Harvey) the rest of the story.

 

[andrew11]

Congrats @Greenhorn, really enjoyed following along on your adventure, and the adventures of those you ran into along the way.
Hoping you share some of the pics Jake took. The others he took while out with you earlier were awesome.

 

[Point Creep]

Back story on the left ear red tag ram from FWP biologist I got by email today - very interesting..


Hi all;
Just wanted to drop you all a note about a very interesting red-ear tagged ram which was harvested by hunter Jim Boorman yesterday. You’ve all been involved with this sheep in one way or another, so hope you are interested.

This ram had a red tag in its left ear. This caused us some confusion because Ed Coyle and Kevin Hurley and I have off and on been communicating about a left-ear-tag ram which shows up sometime at Jack Creek or along Highway 191 near Big Sky.

There were captures of bighorn in the Spanish Peaks in 2018 where we put a red ear tag in the left ear of a 2.5 year old ram. But the sightings of a really big older ram with a red ear tag just didn’t add up – how could this be that ram? Kevin and Ed and I went back and forth about the amount of growth observed between years… this maybe helps clear up that mystery!

The numbers on the ear tag of the ram Jim shot were really faint, I almost missed them. It was number 0475. This ram was transplanted from a capture site at Slide Inn/Quake Lake (southern end of the Madison Valley) to Wolf Creek as a part of our within-mountain range translocation project. The transplant happened in January 2015, and this ram was 2.5 at that time.

This is just the second known connection between the Hilgards sheep and the Spanish Peaks sheep. The first known connection was a young ewe transplanted in 2016. So that is pretty exciting. Our work helped reconnect these genetically similar native sheep herds which had been isolated for the last 40-50 years.

This ram scored about 176 7/8 (green, unofficial). He was a real beauty with a great back story. Thanks so much for Jim and his son for having the patience with me while I figured this story out!!

Thanks all for what you do, and please keep reporting sightings of ear-tagged sheep to me? With more reports, stories like this become more clear over time.

And good luck out there, Kurt! Hope to check your sheep soon!!

Julie