MT Ram

Congrats @Greenhorn, really enjoyed following along on your adventure, and the adventures of those you ran into along the way.
Hoping you share some of the pics Jake took. The others he took while out with you earlier were awesome.
 
Back story on the left ear red tag ram from FWP biologist I got by email today - very interesting..


Hi all;
Just wanted to drop you all a note about a very interesting red-ear tagged ram which was harvested by hunter Jim Boorman yesterday. Youā€™ve all been involved with this sheep in one way or another, so hope you are interested.

This ram had a red tag in its left ear. This caused us some confusion because Ed Coyle and Kevin Hurley and I have off and on been communicating about a left-ear-tag ram which shows up sometime at Jack Creek or along Highway 191 near Big Sky.

There were captures of bighorn in the Spanish Peaks in 2018 where we put a red ear tag in the left ear of a 2.5 year old ram. But the sightings of a really big older ram with a red ear tag just didnā€™t add up ā€“ how could this be that ram? Kevin and Ed and I went back and forth about the amount of growth observed between yearsā€¦ this maybe helps clear up that mystery!

The numbers on the ear tag of the ram Jim shot were really faint, I almost missed them. It was number 0475. This ram was transplanted from a capture site at Slide Inn/Quake Lake (southern end of the Madison Valley) to Wolf Creek as a part of our within-mountain range translocation project. The transplant happened in January 2015, and this ram was 2.5 at that time.

This is just the second known connection between the Hilgards sheep and the Spanish Peaks sheep. The first known connection was a young ewe transplanted in 2016. So that is pretty exciting. Our work helped reconnect these genetically similar native sheep herds which had been isolated for the last 40-50 years.

This ram scored about 176 7/8 (green, unofficial). He was a real beauty with a great back story. Thanks so much for Jim and his son for having the patience with me while I figured this story out!!

Thanks all for what you do, and please keep reporting sightings of ear-tagged sheep to me? With more reports, stories like this become more clear over time.

And good luck out there, Kurt! Hope to check your sheep soon!!

Julie
 
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Beautiful ram. It has really been cool to be able to follow along incredible experience. You really are one hell of a hunter.
 
Congrats! Not sure anyone could do a tag like that more justice than what you did. Youā€™ll have so many great memories and stories to tell about this hunt. Nicely done!
 
Congratulations on your ram! That has to be one of the most well earned rams in the history of sheep hunting. Sad that this epic thread is coming to a close... but I'll keep checking back for more story and photos!
 
I almost started to doubt.......

Not sure I know anyone who would have done this tag justice to the extent you have. Beautiful ram.
 
Greenhorn said:
Itā€™s not the Boorman ram - but
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...but it's not the Boddington ram either!

Congratulations on a fine adventure, which you generously shared with us sir, and a fine ram to top it all off. (Much to the satisfaction of those following the thread I might add.)
 
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