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Stone are beautiful animals, the price tag is what keeps most folks away. You can get in draws for bighorns but the stones take $$$ and lots of it these days.
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Personally,I like the Altai Argali. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/yCQ4udv.jpg) And no,that is not me in the pic.
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With second place being the Marco Polo. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/TX0tFLe.jpg) Not me in the pic.
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I just like the Asian sheep. Another I like,the Transcapsian Urial. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/Km1fuyW.jpg)
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Personally,I like the Altai Argali. And no,that is not me in the pic. What a BEAST! That sheep's momma must have been a moose.
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The High Altai Argali are the worlds largest sheep.
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Gents, thanks for the kind words! Appreciated! As per what Stone country is like: I have spotted them feeding on plateaus, but rough country was always a short distance away....cliffs, shale slides, etc. They are hard to bowhunt feeding on a plateau....easier in the rougher stuff. They like to bed in massive (shale) slides most of the time. Hard to stalk in that stuff.
Hunter numbers are variable. Some years walkin hunting is OK and the next you will be over-run with hunters. No way to know. Fly-in hunts, the air taxis try to manage the high lakes a bit by only booking one group at a time to a given lake. Doesn’t mean some other taxi won’t fly in there. Anyway, I know I have it good here! You’re absolutely right Kurt, we have it good here in BC. My brother and I have been hunting sheep yearly as BC residents for 15 years. This year we took our 14th stone ram between us, along with a few that others got with us. I’ll be 50 in a couple months and I’m not ready to give up my stone sheep obsession just yet🤪
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Nice sheep!
Anyone know why it seems like Desert Bighorns are almost always broomed while it seems like Stone Sheep rarely are?
In my experience a lot of the stone rams above 8 years old that we have found have been broomed to some extent. It seems like at 8 and older is when their lamb tips start to splinter and get broken off. With the 10-12 year old rams we have taken, it’s common for as much as the the first two years of horn growth to be broomed off. 4-6” of horn. Our oldest ram is 12 with 2 years broomed off on both sides, but amazingly both horns still rise above the bridge of the nose.
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Mine was aged at 10 1/2, and luckily still had most of the lamb tips. Both sides were barely starting to round off, and the right side a small finger nail sized piece broke out, and a 6" crack had formed from the tip back.
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You guys are NOT making it easy on me. Like I've said of all the sheep, Stones are my FAV.
Thnx for joining this thread.
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