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Thanks for posting story and pics. Well done, congratulations to you both!
"The day I went to work everybody showed up to watch Johnny Luster work. Well, they had a wheelbarrow there, and said I was to push that thing around all day. I looked at it, then turned around and headed for the mountians..."
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Thanks for the adulations guys. Very nice! Who did the ring count at 8? Sure looks like more to me... That would be the Tok office of fin, fur and feathers.  Several noticed the Xtra Tuff boots my son was wearing. He has leather hiking boots but they don't work for him. He has a bunion of the bottom of one foot that hurts like crazy with a stiff-soled boot. It is hard to believe as it's so hard to side hill or come downhill in those things. Can't say enuff nice things about the folks at 40-mile Air. Forgot to mention how handy the InReach was. We scored and made it back to the gravel strip at noon - 4 days ahead of our scheduled pickup. I send a message to Genoa and we were picked up within 4 hours of our initial request! Friggin' awesome. When BW had his sheep sealed the lady doing the counting came up with a different age for each horn... so I have seen some goofy counts!
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Oh, and one side of the ram was two years younger than the other. She averaged them!
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Oh, and one side of the ram was two years younger than the other. She averaged them! lmao, but I'm so afraid you're apt to be telling the truth.
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Nice ram! I cant hardly walk across my lawn in Xtratuffs, couldn't imagine walking in the rocks. The winter of 2013/14 did some weird things to growth rings in some areas/sheep. Many grew about 1/2-2/3 what they normally would have. The trooper that checked me this year guessed my 10yo double broomer at 8. It ain't just ADFG.
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Congrats on a well-earned trophy! Sheep hunting is just the best test of your physical and mental abilities. Thanks for posting so we can all celebrate your son's success.
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Great read and pics! Awesome hunt/adventure. Congrats to you both. Brings back some great memories. Thanks for sharing!!
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Thanks for the post and the pics are great. Really appreciate all the Sheep hunting threads.
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Great story and pictures, very cool that you got to do this with your son!
Thanks for taking the time to share this. Kurt
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Great story, photo's and ram! Nicely done!
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Thanks for the adulations guys. Very nice! Who did the ring count at 8? Sure looks like more to me... That would be the Tok office of fin, fur and feathers. Several noticed the Xtra Tuff boots my son was wearing. He has leather hiking boots but they don't work for him. He has a bunion of the bottom of one foot that hurts like crazy with a stiff-soled boot. It is hard to believe as it's so hard to side hill or come downhill in those things. Can't say enuff nice things about the folks at 40-mile Air. Forgot to mention how handy the InReach was. We scored and made it back to the gravel strip at noon - 4 days ahead of our scheduled pickup. I send a message to Genoa and we were picked up within 4 hours of our initial request! Friggin' awesome. Four former sheep guides looked at the pictures today and four for four agreed without me saying a word that the sheep is nine. Absolutely not meant in any way to be negative; it is a fine trophy, very well-earned! I would have said retired, but the alliteration of "four former" trumped four "retarded"! (for Randy's benefit!)
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And I agree with them...
Just to double down on retarded!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Congrats on a great hunt!!! Nothing better than spending some time in the TMA, it is awesome country. The Tok fish and game office is one of the better one's I have dealt with, whether they said 8 or 9, one really needs to get the horns in their hand's to know for sure. Just from looking at the pics, I'd say he's a ram on the younger scale of things. 8 or 9, splitting hairs. Anyhoo.... Those two "42's", I bet they were pretty rams...
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Thanks for the write up and congrats to the two of you, what a great father/son outing!
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Awesome country and photos, congratulations!
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Wow.
Way to get it done. Congrats to you both.
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Thanks for the story, well done guys!
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What an adventure. Congrats to you both.
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And I agree with them...
Just to double down on retarded! So you HAVE met Randy.
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Nice Ram, thanks for sharing. Backpack mountain hunts are the ones I relish the most.
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