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My son in law killed this ram in Rocksprings yesterday. I didn’t know they would interbreed. Anyone else seen that???

Killed it with a 270 WSM

Nice looking ram, really like those spiral horns. How do they eat?

About like a piece of leather boot.

Nice!!

Rocksprings has species unknown to man with all the brought in stuff...

A guy named Thompson Temple been breeding Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep with Mouflon sheep on his ranch near Camp Wood, TX. Nice looking animals. I took my grandson there on his first hunt and saw the results, which are pretty impressive.

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They have interbred for as long as I have known them.

A ram might be boot leather, but good mutton off them is really good as long as the meat is hot. Let it get cold and the grease is a bit weird.

I'd take that meat over a quite a bit of other.

We were sent out one night to get a sheep for the gals at the house had screwed up and ran out of meat for the hunters. They were beyond excellent cooks and to me the sheep was going to be better than the beef had been. Thunderstorms and all, all we could find, no sheep, but blackbuck does... boy did we get chewed out when we got back that night. Never mind we had driven for a couple hours looking..

They did ok with the blackbuck, covered it over with bell peppers enough... dang that sheep would have been outstanding.

I can’t get horned up about these “hunts”...Yes, they’re a beautiful animal.

But, unless things have changed in the last 25 years when I made a mistake going along on a Mouflon hunt in West Texas where I was told we’d be hunting them. Turned out to be 2600 acres of fenced flown in pets to shoot. Wasn’t hunting to me...

Educate me...Is it still the same game of drive around, see them, jump out, shoot one, take hero pics, and head back to the lodge?

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Out here we have Mouflon and Feral Sheep crosses. (Ovis Musimon x Ovis Aries). The mouflon were purposely crossed with the ferals in the hope that the hybrids would have less destructive browsing habits. I don't think that worked out as planned. What do you believe that mouflon is crossed with?

I think that Mouflon crosses are common enough that there are folk that are claiming that there are very few pure mouflon in the world and were challenging the record books as a result.

If you have it ground with beef suet and turned into sausage, my dog would eat it!

He hunts out of a stand, was pig hunting when ram came up.

They have some nice Aoudads on that place also. Dall, Jacobs, Mouflon, Corsican, Axis too.

Same here. I have hunted Mouflon ( at least as pure as you can find these days) and they were good game to hunt, spooky as hell.

These other "rams" that Ive seen in Texas are by far the stupidest animals ever, with the "four horned" variety taking the cake.

Aoudad are great game, these semi-domestic versions...not so much.

Looks like that ram has allot of Barbado in him to me. That is a domestic breed that will cross breed with any sheep species it can. With less ranchers running sheep in that area more of these Barbado crosses are around now. The ranchers used to kill every one they could to keep them from cross breeding their good sheep. Allot of people mistake a Barbado for a Mouflon. They are better to eat than Aoudad in my opinion.

They don’t excite me much, I kill every aoudad I see, bastards scare off the deer.

Very good practice. We kill every one we can. They breed like rats and way out compete the native game. Worthless freaking varmints as far as I am concerned.

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Sausage is best use of Aoudad in my opinion. The small ewes and lambs are allot better to eat than the rams.