Sheep pict thread

[Breaks Runner]

This pic was given to me by Duncan Gilchrist...on the back it said: Picked up from Spences Bridge, B.C. 49 6/8". Another pic I cherish given to me by an "old schooler".

 

[Breaks Runner]

My good friend and fellow government trapper, Alan with a hard earned ram....GH you probably know this country.....grin!!

 

[1_pointer]

BR- Great pics!! Thanks for sharing.

 

[BRI]

I believe this ram was hit and killed, on the highway the same day. I heard there have been 4 mature rams killed on the highway there this year.

 

[Breaks Runner]

That sux....where is that?

 

[Drake4]

Looks like Anaconda? Right in front of the F&G check station?

 

[shoots-straight]

Here's a Nice Ram taken in Rock Creek in 93, some where around 203.

 

[BRI]

I drove by there this morning and there were about 40 right in and next to the road. 10 minutes later a truck plows into them killing 8. This happened about noon today. Guy claims the sun was in his eyes????....Damn shame!

 

[shoots-straight]

I can see how that could happen if there actually was some sun there! Dumb ASS.

 

[Dinkshooter]

That Sucks.

 

[TheTone]

BRI, thats an awful scene, any chance the guy was cited?

Great thread all, this has officially made me decide to try for a sheep tag this year.

 

[BRI]

Apparently they gave him a ticket for failure to obey a traffic sign (which is the electric "Caution Sheep Ahead" sign less than a mile from the scene). I heard the Montana Standard will run an article on it tomorrow. I spent about an hour with the FWP bio looking for any that may have been wounded and he mentioned they are open to suggestions on how to avoid these.

Here's a question for you all here...How would you feel if the FWP sold or auctioned off the heads of the rams and put the money into a fund for education, habitat or even to help on the cost of a solution to the problem? Or would they be better off on a wall in an FWP office?

 

[Dinkshooter]

Auction them off and put up even more signs.

 

[TheTone]

I'd say auction them, thats what IDFG does with the vast majority of heads that it collects during a year. Sheep heads may be an exception here however.

 

[----]

What a waste. Pretty obvious something needs to be done. Same thing happens every year between plains and t-falls.

 

[Dinkshooter]

Is it a migration thing or are they just eating the road salt?

Why not a fence if they are just eating the road salt?

 

[rosco]

Auction them off and build a fence with a few underpasses..they will use them in time.

 

[shoots-straight]

They go on the road for the saline solution the road dept. sprays. De-icer.

 

[Oak]

Don't have permission to post the pictures, but I held a ram last night that was killed a few days ago in NM. It only has 14 3/8" bases, but still grosses over 184! It's 39 and change long, and the third quarter measurements are over 11"!

I might have to win the CO statewide tag this year....

 

[Bighorn191]

It's a great tag Oak...I had it in 1997 and took what was really the only truly huge trophy animal I ever wanted...a dream come true and more than anyone could ever ask for or be entitled to.