MT Ram
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Hem
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True...but the mind game becomes ..." I don't want to be done....I want to be done".
Southern Elk
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Most people would love to be able to hunt them for 13 days. You’ll get it done. Plenty of time left.
The Hedgehog
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Side story. Opening weekend of archery I was packing out of an upper camp with my son and a friend after a great weekend of fishing and sheep hunting. Ran into another hunter, Matt, who was scouting. He was 9 miles in, one way. We chatted briefly and parted ways. Due to his career, Matt could only hunt on weekends. 5 weeks later, I ran into Matt 5 miles in, on a trail on the opposite end of the unit. He was coming out from a day hunt, I was headed in overnight. We visited again. The next day we met again at about noon at almost 10 miles in, at close to 10000ft. I invited him to tag along and hike out on a trail that was unmarked and allegedly a good place for sheep. We visited & hunted together for roughly 10 hours that day and stayed in touch all through the season after that. I told him about all the rams I saw in the summer and how they'd vanished. I was glassing Saturday AM and saw him from several miles off go after a ram that was with a small group of ewes. I did not see the sheep, but saw their tracks (9400ft in mid Nov) and Matt. I met up with him at the trailhead that night and we shared plans for Sunday's hunt. Matt scored. A very hard earned sheep and deserving hunter. Matt and his wife brought by a beautiful 10.5 year old Spanish Peaks ram for me to look at tonight. I think I have some video footage of this ram from July and if that's the case, I'm hoping the ram I really like will be following this one's route. They are not rutting yet. Younger rams with ewes, older rams still in groups, but that's got to change any time now.
The Hedgehog
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BuzzH
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Kind of, sort of know what you're going through.
I ran my season down to just a handful of days left when I held a WY ram permit. I had 26 days of hunting when it all finally came together, you've spent 3 times that...can't imagine.
I kept telling myself all it takes is glassing the right spot, at the right time. My buddy Eugene, who helped me, and has been involved in lots and lots of sheep hunts kept telling me: "sheep are hard to find, easy to kill".
Good luck, pulling for you.
The Hedgehog
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This is where everybody replies and says, Yes - tomorrow November 16th is THE DAY when all the great big rams jump out into the open, start butting heads and say, shoot me now!
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Tomorrow is THE DAY!
Keep hammering.
Keep hammering.
EYJONAS!
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Your ram is there waiting for you buddy. Pulling for ya amigo, you'll get it done!
Only the ram knows where the lives
Only the ram knows where the lives
Irrelevant
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I've had to remind everyone I hunt with and have needed to be reminded by everyone I hunt with that it takes less than 30 seconds to completely change the trajectory of a hunt. Good luck
RobertD
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Very true and a very good point
Greenhorn I've been checking this one daily, looking forward to seeing your ram
sacountry
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I feel like we need to rally the troops down to the Peaks. 
Big Slick
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Hell NO!!
EYJONAS!
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Not much of a team player huh?
Big Slick
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I thought it would copy the video quote when I replied to it.
Big Slick
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As a matter of fact, team player to a fault!
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@Greenhorn you got it, keep it going!
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