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![[Linked Image]](https://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/cwh2/Sheep/2016/IMG_3868.jpeg) Here is a guy I used to know with a 40incher from a few years ago for comparison. Pardon the blood. That IS a beast.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Here is a guy I used to know with a 40incher from a few years ago for comparison. Pardon the blood. That IS a beast. The sheep is pretty gnarly, too.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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As a teacher, I don't get the time off that many people do when it comes to sheep hunting and hunting in general. I have a hunt planned for the end of August and beginning of September that will allow me to use all four of my personal days with labor day. I do get to talk to people and help them get started. One of the guys that I work with at SW was very apt student and listened to everything that I told him to do for preparation, tools, technique and etc. I guess I have to live vicariously through him. He did fine. He shot this guy at 30 yards up Shindata on opening morning. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.ibb.co/XYnhvbq/68940900-2372503309740257-6338813116859547648-n.jpg)
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These guys all seem to be thinner and younger than I am......might be a message there!
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Tks for posting both pix on same thread Chris, think it really helps guys that don’t get to see many if any sheep a better idea of what we’re talking about. Pic is worth a thousand words, two pix speak volumes.
First sheep I ever took was in the company of a curmudgeonly old guy that had gone 23 rams outa 24 seasons.
Man what a honey hole he’d found, river has changed so no way to get anywhere close to his old honey hole. I wonder how many big rams have died there now due to natural causes.
He personally had only taken half a dozen or so rams over 40” there, not sure how many other rams over 40 his friends had taken there. My first one was only 37 , but a beauty, just didn’t get the drop down to jaw to put it in the over 40 class. 🤷🏻♂️
Congrats again sir, you’ve turned into a sheep hunting machine.
As for goats? Meh, ain’t just the headwear, it’s taste of meat for me, I’ll take a sheep over goat meat anyday. YMMV
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Thomas tell your friend congrats on a beautiful ram 👍🏻
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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This will be worth the wait.
Hasn’t been yet. Just been a BFF chat so far. and a damn fine one at that
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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This is the biggest darned sheep I've ever seen. Almost wore me down. God Bless, Steve ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/4mREq9e.jpg)
"God Loves Each Of Us As If There Were Only One Of Us"
Saint Augustine of Hippo - AD 397
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Love seeing big Rams! Not that common anymore! You don,t see the numbers of sheep-like you saw in the 80,s up here. And competition for the big Rams is unreal.
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Thomas, that one has everything! Full length with a lamb tip on the left, broomed on the right, what more could you ask for?
I'll see if I can get the whole sheep family in a frame for a portrait... Each picture has its own perspective and you can get caught comparing things from one picture to another that don't really apply.
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Could be one of the best looking sheephorns ever....
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Oh what a beauty Steve !
Still some big rams taken every year, but as others have noted sheep hunting may have passed its zenith. Whole lot more sheep hunters competing for fewer big rams
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Oh what a beauty Steve !
Still some big rams taken every year, but as others have noted sheep hunting may have passed its zenith. Whole lot more sheep hunters competing for fewer big rams Pretty sure sheep hunter # are a lot lower than 15 to 20 years ago...
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Neighbor gave me some sausage game meat thanked him, got home and looked at packages labeled Sheep! from this years ram! Chorizo Dall Sheep sausage, wow been a while since I had any Sheep meat. Made a breakfast burrito it was wonderful. Not often a sheep hunter will share some!
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Got a text yesterday that he's packing another white caped beast off a mountain today.
"243/85TSX It's as if the HAMMER OF THOR were wielded by CHUCK NORRIS himself, and a roundhouse kick thrown in for good measure."
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Oh what a beauty Steve !
Still some big rams taken every year, but as others have noted sheep hunting may have passed its zenith. Whole lot more sheep hunters competing for fewer big rams Pretty sure sheep hunter # are a lot lower than 15 to 20 years ago... Pretty sure you are as wrong as about every other post/declaration you have ever made. About five years ago I was part of a group working with ADFG looking at options and attitudes on AK sheep hunting moving forward. Sheep numbers are down half and hunter numbers are double from 20 years ago.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Got a text yesterday that he's packing another white caped beast off a mountain today. The machine rolls on!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Oh what a beauty Steve !
Still some big rams taken every year, but as others have noted sheep hunting may have passed its zenith. Whole lot more sheep hunters competing for fewer big rams Pretty sure sheep hunter # are a lot lower than 15 to 20 years ago... Pretty sure you are as wrong as about every other post/declaration you have ever made. About five years ago I was part of a group working with ADFG looking at options and attitudes on AK sheep hunting moving forward. Sheep numbers are down half and hunter numbers are double from 20 years ago. Stop trying to be a big shot. I sat at the same table with you. Then you went to Lohuis house for beers.
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Sheep numbers are down half and hunter numbers are double from 20 years ago.
Laughing !
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