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Watched a herd of 20 sheep starting at about 1500 yards for about an hour work their way up a draw to a saddle towards me. 3 good rams in the bunch. The wind was whipping pretty good and not in one direction. I picked out the biggest one and decided to let him get to the saddle at 500 yards before I would take him because of the wind situation.

He was quartering to my left showing his left shoulder. He put his head down to graze which put his neck level with the shoulder and the horn covered the left side of his neck.

The wind call was a tough one. I was shooting the .264 WM and the 139 at warp speed so I decided to hold straight up. The bullet had about 10" of drift to the left and went through the horn and into the neck. He trotted about 100 yards pretty sickly and stopped. I shot him again in the shoulder to finish.



Had an awesome hunt...