Big MT Bighorn Sheep

[GFHunter]

My Brother ended the 2005 MT hunting season with an unused either-sex Moose permit burning a hole in his wallet.|oo |oo

This year he drew a MT Bighorn sheep tag and made up for the mishap of a year ago. He killed this dandy Ram yesterday with his Bow and Arrow at about 30 yards. Should be a new Montana State Record P/Y class. The current pope and young record is 192 1/8. His Ram green scored 196. This Ram was about 10 years old. We'll have to see how much shrinkage occurs over the next 60 days.

All the field shots are with a 35mm camera. Here are some photos of the Big Boy back at home this morning, with field photos to come later. Enjoy!!!!!

My Brother Damon with his Ram.

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My 2 brother holding Damons Ram.

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Side View (His left side)

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Side View (His right side)

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[Big Fin]

GF:

That is a great feat for your brother. What a wonderful ram - even that much more impressive with archery gear.

I hope some day that FWP will give me or my son one of those tags. Do you mind telling what unit?

Happy hunting.

Big Fin

 

[wyomingtim]

Wow, nice ram. Congrats to your brother.

 

[T Bone]

stud of a ram. Congrats to your brother and his support staff

 

[csutton7]

what a brute--tell him congrats....chris

 

[GFHunter]

Big Fin,
He shot the Ram in unit 482.

 

[Nut]

Congrats to the brother

 

[mtmiller]

PM's are always an option. Nice ram. I think the record PY MT ram is 199".

 

[GFHunter]

craig,

What do you know about pope and young records that I dont? Is the site very slow about updating the records.

 

[BigBuxMT]

GF, I did a little research and the World record is 199 5/8. The MT record is 192 1/8. This is what I came up with so hope this clears things up. Very nice sheep...Congrats to your brother!

 

[Larry Landgren]

great looking ram thanks for sharing

 

[Desert Sheep]

There was an archery ram killed in 04' in the breaks that scored 199 after the 60 day drying period. It won't be panel scored until 07'.

http://www.bowsite.com/bowsite/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=305984&messages=16&forum=12

Here's the link to a Billings Gazette article about the hunt:
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2004/11/18/outdoors/export181790.txt

So this ram will probably be #2. Still a hog of a sheep!

 

[carbonarcher]

Wow, dandy ram, congrats to your brother.

 

[BigHornRam]

Congrats to your brother GFH on a very nice ram.

 

[JoseCuervo]

How big of a 4-Wheeler did he use?

 

[GFHunter]

Size 10 Danners!!! plus pack frame.

Oh the 4-wheeler, its for spraying weeds. You need some glyphosate to drink?

 

[donkeyfan]

beautiful ram congrats to your bro, I was elk hunting over by Alder and a guy shot a real nice ram over in that area on the 16th dont know if it was that big, but as with your bro's any ram with stick-n-sting is a beaut.