Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game How tough are aoudad?

I just got done aoudad hunting with two pards.

We took three rams, all over 30". 6.5 Creed Eldx ram took two through the boiler and died in 40 yards. Dead in 10 seconds. Second was to keep from cliff diving. 220 yards.



My ram, .280 Ackley with 168 VLD right behind the shoulder. Ram took two bounds and rolled. Dead quick. 270 yards.



Ram bleeding from mouth after first bound.



Chris's ram soaked up 3 rounds of 195 EOL from a 28 Nosler from 10 to 250 yards. Two were perfect lung shots. Ram went 600 yards and needed a 4th follow-up. The blood trail for 600 yards I could follow no issue with 8 power bins across the canyon. Never seen anything like it.



Couple of interesting things I noticed.

All bullets exited. Every one. The rams did not bleed out of the wound but through the mouth. All of them.

They are about the funnest thing I've hunted. Watching them bed inside caves and interacting was great.

They stink.