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There are many great areas to find a big bull on this unit, but it changes from year to year as bulls are killed. The key is to start scouting early and put as much time into finding and keeping track of the biggest bull you find. If you don't have time to spend scouting, your relying on luck...

Yep, we did Brian, two rams smaking heads. My apologies to BJV3. Luck on your hunt, hope your son gets a great ram and with family memmories too!

Here is Mike's Zion archery ram. Currently Utah's state record archery. And here's a photo of me out Scorpion with the Moodys on the left across the river.

Nice sheep is it a Zion Ram? Great length and mass. Pretty hard to tell which sheep is bigger but all definately class 4 rams. until you get them on the ground there are many variables, like if a measurement falls on a big chip etc. we'll sure do it if we get the chance, then we'll compare...

Neither ram is flawless the one you are calling pretty boy actually has two large chunks gone. One on the top of the right side and another chunk off the back near the second measurement. We've watched these guys several times and never seen a third ram. At 1500 yards refraction is making...

For comparison here is the world record Archery ram at 178 6/8 and the Meeski Arizona ram at 186 and change. I think either of these Utah desert rams could beat the Utah state record of 174 2/8 I also think the body size of these Zion rams are larger than the dead sheep. I could be wrong...

Here are the best photos I have of these sheep. Now show me something bigger that is living or has been taken in Utah. DESERT SHEEP not Rockies.

Well here is where it will get interesting for you. The clear blue sky ram is the very same ram only 4 years ago. Only now he has lost a couple of chunks from fighting and has more length and mass. The blue sky photo was taken from 200 yards and the other video which has been freeze framed...

All these sheep except the dead one are the Zions Desert Sheep I have posted. All are in a sheep class so far above most desert sheep that it is in comparison to the class of this buck we are watching to your average mule deer buck. Can anyone guess the score of the dead sheep?

My advice is to learn how to score desert sheep. In the past 5 years climbing all over the Zion unit, and I mean all over, nooks and crannies, hunting deer and sheep the only rams that I have seen any better are in the Park eating crackers from tourists. Prior to living on the Zion Unit, I...

Sheep, particularly Desert Sheep live in the most remote, rugged and forbidding country on earth. They face extreme conditions, poor feed, lack of water, easy access to lions and are constantly sought by hunters. On two occasions I have seen sheep almost fall to their death by an accidental...

I would judge that bull 345-355 gross depending on width

The Monroe is a fun unit to hunt and has some good bulls. Get in and scout hard to find signs of past rutting areas. The bulls you find will not be in the same area for the hunt. Go where others don't go and hunt hard. We located several bulls 370 and larger last year, get a good elk caller...