NMPaul
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I went out solo this morning to one of the new places on public we had found this year.
Did not have my hunting buddys Zach and Kevin. I knew I could not hunt this weekend so I wanted to give it another try.
My last outing earlier in the week I saw no sheep.
Even though I had seen none, I really liked the spot and the mountain I had to climb to glass from gave me an awesome view.
Since I did not have my buddies with me I was carrying a pretty heavy pack already with the spotting scope, tripod, 15x binocs, bog pod, water and other junk.
I got on top at first glassing light and was seeing nothing again.
Then at 8:00 I spotted a herd almost 2 miles to the south. I put the spotting scope on them and saw that there were a couple decent rams in the group. Almost 2 hours later I was crawling the last 50 yards to put myself at about 260 yards.
Somehow I had broke the top of my bog pod, but, made it work.
First shot the ram went one way hit hard and the herd went the other. I sat and watched him lay down. He did not look like he was gonna die right away so I took 2 more shots missing one.
Here I am almost 3 miles from the truck with a fairly heavy pack already. I got some pictures using the timer, boned him out and loaded him up.
Long day, but, very happy to get this decent ram on public.
Look a little crazy cause there is only 10 seconds on the timer
Getting ready for the pack out.
Did not have my hunting buddys Zach and Kevin. I knew I could not hunt this weekend so I wanted to give it another try.
My last outing earlier in the week I saw no sheep.
Even though I had seen none, I really liked the spot and the mountain I had to climb to glass from gave me an awesome view.
Since I did not have my buddies with me I was carrying a pretty heavy pack already with the spotting scope, tripod, 15x binocs, bog pod, water and other junk.
I got on top at first glassing light and was seeing nothing again.
Then at 8:00 I spotted a herd almost 2 miles to the south. I put the spotting scope on them and saw that there were a couple decent rams in the group. Almost 2 hours later I was crawling the last 50 yards to put myself at about 260 yards.
Somehow I had broke the top of my bog pod, but, made it work.
First shot the ram went one way hit hard and the herd went the other. I sat and watched him lay down. He did not look like he was gonna die right away so I took 2 more shots missing one.
Here I am almost 3 miles from the truck with a fairly heavy pack already. I got some pictures using the timer, boned him out and loaded him up.
Long day, but, very happy to get this decent ram on public.
Look a little crazy cause there is only 10 seconds on the timer
Getting ready for the pack out.
