EYJONAS!
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Almost ram season.....
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Damn, these guys bust off much more horn fighting and they’ll be under the 3/4 curl requirement! Good bit of fresh breaks there.
Absolutely!!
Yeah he was such a stud, I haven’t seen or heard of anyone seeing him the last two winters either. Lion must’ve snuck up on his blind side
Glad your healing up good to see ya stopped back in
Lambchoppa
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Thanks for all the input on spike camping and or bivy hunting. Seems like everyone has a preference and I’m sure they can all work.
Some good looking rams in those photos. Helps keep that sheep blood pumping.
Some good looking rams in those photos. Helps keep that sheep blood pumping.
shines@times
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I knew winmag would reopen the sub-thread with his (her, their ?) comment!
shines@times
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I'll say! Is he a transplant from Wild Horse Island?
BAKPAKR
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I just zoomed in on your avatar and saw what it was. That is awesome.
Dumb question here what causes the chunks of horn to be broken off on a ram Fighting ? or is it an age thing
I googled it but couldnt find an answer
Maybe age n fighting combination I know some days my body parts feel like they are trying to make an exit
I googled it but couldnt find an answer
Maybe age n fighting combination I know some days my body parts feel like they are trying to make an exit
BigHornRam
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Survey of chronic sinusitis-induced skull anomalies in desert bighorn sheep - PubMed
Bone anomalies were found in 20% of 630 skulls from desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) representing populations of california bighorn (O canadensis californiana), lower California bighorn (O canadensis cremnobates), Mexican bighorn (O canadensis mexicana), and Nelson bighorn (O canadensis...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
When you see rams with huge laminations of horn missing or entire horn gone, it's most often due to sinusitis.
Nope!
Haha yeah pretty cool! Got to spend a few hours with him chasing ewes couple years ago
shines@times
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Sounds like risky business. I'd be afraid to make that old boy jealous and potentially mad!
recurveman
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A few years ago, we were watching a few rams and about a dozen ewes on the side of a hill in AZ. The rams were butting heads pretty good so there must have been a hot ewe in the bunch. They finally got in a place where we wanted to put a stalk on one of the rams. After further inspection we noticed that his right horn was now 3/4 gone and the tip of his horn was bright red. When we started watching the rams there were no broken horns. Needless to say that was the ram we wanted to stalk so we didn't even attempt a stalk. His posture also changed dramatically. He could tell something happened because he wouldn't challenge the other ram anymore and was very timid. After about an hour he left to group and went on a walk about.
That's a generous marking for the base of the horn, didn't realize that's how they mark it. Also the angle manipulates the result drastically, could near make a ewe legal with a string base to tip from the right angle. Move the camera a hair to the right and the string wouldn't touch the eye of this ram. I'd be curious to see a true side on view of this arrangement. The view shown appears in my opinion from a higher and further back point of view than a true side on, and they may have had to do it that way to bisect the eye.
Agreed, I couldn't glass this ram for 4 hrs from 25 yards and come up the thought that pulling the trigger is a good idea. I fear too that leniency introduces the risk of hunters using this as precident or an example of legal, and finding themselves in hot water.
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mtnkid85
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Any Hunttalkers headed to Butte this weekend for the MTWSF banquette? Hit me up if you want to have a beer.
BigHornRam
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I'll be there Saturday.
mtnkid85
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Opps... I just texted you. How did that much time pass since hunting season already, lol!?
