Montana 3/4 curl ram judging

[EYJONAS!]

Just pass..... the big ram is waiting over the next ridge.

All 3 rams are from 3/4 units. I bet none of them felt great when they walked up to em.

#dontdoit.

 

[Labman]

Just pass..... the big ram is waiting over the next ridge.

All 3 rams are from 3/4 units. I bet none of them felt great when they walked up to em.

#dontdoit.
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Exactly.

 

[buffybr]

I've posted this pic before. This is the last ram that I shot in a Unlimited unit. I passed him up the year before, although he was legal then also. Horn wise he is my smallest ram, but at 9 1/2 years old, he was my oldest ram. One of the things that I look for is if the horn tip curls up. In the FWP office he was legal by almost 2".

 

[littlebighorn]

I've always felt like the age of a ram is as important in trophy quality as length and mass. The 3/4 curl rule is an attempt to get rams to some level of maturity before they are harvested, but for me, I'd need to see some decent mass on a ram before I attempted to draw any lines to determine legal length. I'm in the, pass if there is a question, camp myself.

 

[sacountry]

Unless...... your name is Donna

Good work. You got a belly laugh out of me today.

 

[freu1chr]

The whole reason i did this thread was for the guys going into the unlimited units that have never even seen a big horn and you guys have been spot on if you don't know don't shoot i hope i can find the one i found two years ago this year. 2 years ago i didn't have a tag and was wolf hunting.

 

[Labman]

The whole reason i did this thread was for the guys going into the unlimited units that have never even seen a big horn and you guys have been spot on if you don't know don't shoot i hope i can find the one i found two years ago this year. 2 years ago i didn't have a tag and was wolf hunting.

That’s what a guy wants right there. No guessing, no twine, no embarrassment, no shame. Just stare at that old warrior on the wall with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

 

[EYJONAS!]

Quite the ram.

 

[EYJONAS!]

Legal?

 

[EYJONAS!]

 

[EYJONAS!]

Legal?

 

[EYJONAS!]

 

[EYJONAS!]

I posted the pics to get reactions and thoughts I also have other pics that change the story on the pics I've posted.

It's all for feedback.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

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The right one looks legal to me.

Can't tell with the others, based on the angle given.

 

[LousyResident]

Just pass..... the big ram is waiting over the next ridge.

All 3 rams are from 3/4 units. I bet none of them felt great when they walked up to em.

#dontdoit.
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There's almost nothing as majestic and awe inspiring as a big, heavy, old ram. On the contrary, those smaller rams are some of the mostly gangly, awkward, adolescent looking things. It's like it's a different animal.

 

[EYJONAS!]

There's almost nothing as majestic and awe inspiring as a big, heavy, old ram. On the contrary, those smaller rams are some of the mostly gangly, awkward, adolescent looking things. It's like it's a different animal.

Dink rams are like teenage kids going through puberty. Trying to figure out life and gangly and awkward as hell. Oblivious to the world yet. Kinda like me

 

[sacountry]

Legal?


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Yes, yes they are EYDONNAS!

 

[phutch30]

Legal?

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yes t least the ones where you have a side profile...the quatering one looks so but I sure wouldnt shoot without a side view

 

[TheTone]

Shoot first and break out the bailing twine for the measurement

 

[phutch30]

When I had the 210 sheep tag in 2007 there was a broomed off old warrior of a ram we would see every day. We could count 10yrs, he had scars all over his face a busted up nose etc. He had 16"+ bases (he had better bases than the one I shot which were over 16") and carried his mass all the way out. We were guessing his 4th quarters at around 13+" He was right on the 3/4 line and I mean right on it, but was still a mid 170 class ram. Really cool old ram used to have a picture of him with 6 other big rams.