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[BirdManMike]

could someone please circle the spots where sheep are usually found. TIA Please don't be a smart ass, and circle the entire picture. I need exact locations.

Its already labeled. Sheep Mt.

 

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

Might be better than the two combined.

I do wish I were in the inner circle sometimes. Jealous of you guys that get to see the ones that don't get talked about as much.

 

[EYJONAS!]

I do wish I were in the inner circle sometimes. Jealous of you guys that get to see the ones that don't get talked about as much.

No dwarfs aloud....

 

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

No dwarfs aloud....

Well if that's how we're playing... <insert zinger about quitters or something>

 

[Southern Elk]

You boys have a picture you’re not sharing?

 

[Drummond33]

Oof! if it's the one I think it is, it's a hell of a ram.

 

[Schaaf]

You boys have a picture you’re not sharing?

“Sir, applications are closed at the moment for Montana’s Master Hunter Program. Please stay tuned for next year.”

 

[lonedave]

MTGomer - Is that a live picture of your ram? If so, pretty cool!

 

[MTGomer]

No not my ram, just of a ram on winter range.

 

[shines@times]

aloud....

?

 

[shines@times]

You boys have a picture you’re not sharing?

Wondering about that myself.

 

[shines@times]

501 pending closure. For the love of god please don't be another dink lamb.

Must be some kind of mistake about the location if it is not a dink--EYJONAS has told us repeatedly that all of the legal rams in 501 were killed last year.

 

[EYJONAS!]

Must be some kind of mistake about the location if it is not a dink--EYJONAS has told us repeatedly that all of the legal rams in 501 were killed last year.

Now they are all gone Shines.....

 

[shines@times]

SNOW TOO:

Some UL hunters might recognize the area, but the photo was shot decades ago when it was a different unit opening much later in the year. (Sorry about the blue shift, but neither the photographer nor the slides have aged well.) Moreover, all the legal rams in the unit were killed last year.



Now, the snow to which I refer is not the obvious foreground and middle-ground stuff in the photo. What looks like clouds or fog farther up the valley is all spindrift. MT Gomer, EYJONAS and others have actually encountered more severe and deeper snowfalls in recent years than what I had to contend with in the 1980's. I guess, by mid-November, the stuff was largely worn out when I hunted. The bigger challenges were the sub-zero temperatures and the incessant high winds, which blew me off my feet on several occasions.

As Shawn Stewart explained to me ages ago, the reason that Bighorn sheep can survive Beartooth winters at all is that the wind blows so frequently and severely it constantly sweeps portions of the high plateaus to expose forage. The next photo might provide a hint of that. (It was taken near the site where I missed a nice ram by horribly under-estimating the range. I wrote about that much earlier in the thread in "More Than One Way To Miss A Ram.") Note the striations in the foreground snow.

 

[mtnkid85]

Congrats to the successful 501 hunter, heck of a ram. It must be official now, there aren’t any good rams left in 501…

 

[Redside]

Stone Glacier has a nice ram in their IG story at the moment. Am I close?

 

[Bluffgruff]

Stone Glacier has a nice ram in their IG story at the moment. Am I close?

No. There are tons of sheep on their gram, and several Montana sheep, but none of the recent ones are unlimited sheep. You can tell by the body habitus of the hunters.

 

[MTGomer]

The ram killed was nearly 4x as old as Boddington’s ram, and very well deserved. The Beartooth dream!

The Beartooth dream.

I have hunted with the successful 501 hunter and one thing I can tell you about him is that he always brings some questionable preserved meats.

@EYJONAS! may need to revisit his boycott of the salami section of the shelf at the grocery store.

 

[EYJONAS!]

No. There are tons of sheep on their gram, and several Montana sheep, but none of the recent ones are unlimited sheep. You can tell by the body habitus of the hunters.

Oh cmon who you bluffing? LMFAO "can tell by the body habitus."

 

[EYJONAS!]

The Beartooth dream.

I have hunted with the successful 501 hunter and one thing I can tell you about him is that he always brings some questionable preserved meats.

@EYJONAS! may need to revisit his boycott of the salami section of the shelf at the grocery store.ii

Probably not gonna go that but, I did bring something new this year and was amazed.

Made a hot pizza at 11k feet in while waiting one foggy afternoon.