Colorado bighorn sheep, mountain goat and pronghorn raffle

ColoradoOak · Mar 15, 2014

You can now purchase raffle tickets online for the Colorado statewide bighorn sheep, mountain goat and pronghorn licenses. These licenses allow the winner to hunt in any open unit in the state (excluding desert bighorn) for up to 5 months depending on unit season dates. Tickets are only available for 3 more weeks.

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http://www.bighornsheep.org/raffle.htm

ColoradoOak · Mar 15, 2014

Here are the last 6 rams taken by the raffle tag winners.

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Zeke · Mar 15, 2014

What? They couldn't find any big ones? Lol

Great sheep ColoradoOaks! Thanks for sharing the pics of some great rams and lucky tag holders. No doubt it will be a dream tag for the lucky winner!!!!

Zeke

deerslayer88 · Mar 15, 2014

2009 is my fav

scottyboy · Mar 15, 2014

I'll be buying my small chance at glory!

Adventurewriter · Mar 15, 2014

2009 is my fav too...looks like a Camnamore Mine ram

oneaway · Mar 15, 2014

2011....Holy mass!!!

greatwestern · Mar 16, 2014

LAST EDITED ON Mar-16-14 AT 12:15PM (MST)[p]Thanks for reminder Oak, always forget how much earlier your raffle is than ours

For sure Jeremy's hammer is an all time CO monster, but I do agree with Slayer and Awriter that Mike's is the best looking...just an all around perfect ram

I do like the big based dropper from last year as well, thing's got that classic 'petroglyph' look to him, like some of the Utah deserts

Thanks again, great photos!

Cheers'

ColoradoOak · Mar 17, 2014

Thanks for the ticket purchase, greatwestern.

There are still some nice ones running around. Here's a photo from about a month ago. What do you suppose his "stats" are?

ColoradoOak · Mar 19, 2014

LAST EDITED ON Mar-19-14 AT 02:03PM (MST)[p]Paul Kinney drew his 2013 tag after only 16 years of applying in this relatively "easy" unit to draw. Imagine having 5 months to hunt the state with more Rocky Mountain bighorns than any other.

littlebighorn · Mar 19, 2014

Those stud pictures just sucked a small donation from my wallet as well COak. Notice I called it what it really is. ha.
Thanks for the reminder.
It's always good to help neighboring sheep herds.
You CO boys do a bang up job!!

ColoradoOak · Mar 20, 2014

Thanks for the support, littlebighorn. I hope that it's more than a donation. I think CO somehow is a bit under the radar for many, regarding the size of rams.

Like deep curls? Galen Westfall's 2012 ram is so deep that it doesn't look 40 6/8" long. With 16 2/8" bases, he nets over 186".

ColoradoOak · Apr 2, 2014

Better NR odds than New Mexico. ;-)

nmbighorn · Apr 2, 2014

LAST EDITED ON Apr-03-14 AT 01:39AM (MST)[p]WOW! Very Nice Ram. ColoradoOak do I still have a chance to buy raffles.

NMBIGHORN

Edit: Just checked the link and it worked, I will buy some tomorrow.

bowhuntinnut · Apr 13, 2014

Anybody know who won the raffles last night?

ColoradoOak · Apr 14, 2014

>Anybody know who won the raffles
>last night?

The winners are:

Swarovski Optics - Farley Hicks, Montana
Swarovski Optics - Brian Peterson, Minnesota
Weaver 7mm-08 - Jim Gonzales, Colorado
Pronghorn - Tim Rushing, Colorado
Mountain Goat - Ryan Goodenow, Colorado
Bighorn Sheep - Kirk Gustafson, Colorado

muleninja · May 1, 2014

Anyone know what those rams scored, 2008-2013?

ColoradoOak · May 1, 2014

LAST EDITED ON May-01-14 AT 10:50AM (MST)[p]2008 - 181 2/8" net
2009 - not sure. About the same as 2008, I think.
2010 - don't know.
2011 - 191 2/8" net
2012 - 188 3/8" net
2013 - ~180" (not official yet)