desertbonehunter
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LAST EDITED ON Jan-12-13 AT 11:36AM (MST)[p]So this was actually about 4 years ago, but my Grandpa has a desert sheep tag, we went over a few days early to scout and had split up to cover more ground before the opener. The night before the season started our buddies found a 170 class ram. So opening morning we were trying to turn him up. After a couple hours of glassing, nothing. Then ere comes a lion out of a big canyon where the sheep was the evening before. About 10 minutes later out comes another. They both went right up and laid out on some rocks overlooking the canyon and were just sunning and licking their paws. So my brother and I took my grandpas rifle, (as your only allowed one gun in the field in Nevada on a sheep hunt) and put a stalk on these lions. We were able to get straight across the canyon and get a good shot. It was about 400 yards across and my brother shot the first shot, 1st lion down. The other lion jumped up and had no clue what just happened as I took the rifle and boom, 2nd lion down. We got across the canyon to retrieve them and they were two good sizes Toms still running together, no doubt just wreaking havoc on the sheep herd. We dont know whether or not they got our 170 ram or not, but we never saw that ram again.