Improving the gene pool...

[mozey]

LAST EDITED ON Oct-31-12 AT 05:25PM (MST)[p]...was not my intention. First saw him at about 250 yards running directly away from me. From behind he looked bigger than anything that I had seen thus far and he was just about to disappear over the hill. Made a snap judgement and the 7mm reached out sent him over backwards back towards me. Two or three more rolls until he piled up against a yucca. My elation was tampered only slightly when I got to him and saw that he was just a big forkie, but he was less than a mile pack out to my truck, and with only one day left to hunt I was happy to get him. The booner will have to wait til next year--for now I'll settle for jerky...

http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/54502point1.jpg

 

[NMHUNTER]

nice job mozey. thats a big fork. i would have let the lead fly. you cant make jerky out of antlers anyway!! congrats

 

[DUKFVR]

Nothing wrong with that!! CONGRATS!! Always heard anything close to the truck is a B&C Buck or bull!! LOL!!

 

[crazeymaez]

Way to go Moz.Nice buck

 

[Gator]

filling the freezer isn't a bad idea.

"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".
>[Font][Font color = "green"]Life member of
>the MM green signature club.[font/]

 

[JFBNORTHERNHUNTER]

Congrats on the buck. i would have done the same and that buck looks healthy to so enjoy the jerky.

 

[nmelktrout]

Well done Moze. Way to take that dude out of the gene pool indeed! Reminds me of the big fork I killed last year. I think it's pretty neat to kill them, regardless of score.

http://themeateater.com/
www.streamflies.com

 

[NMPaul]

Mozey, didnt know you hunted the desert. That is a fine buck. Any buck these days in NM is a pretty good buck it seems.
Since we are posting forkies..



***********************************

Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."


"A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." - Unknown

 

[TurkeyHuntin]

Congrats mozey!!!! Way to get it done as usual.

 

[NMPaul]

Any more hunts before your oryx hunt?

 

[tailgunner]

way to go congrats

 

[mozey]

Paul, nope--got the oryx in January and Barbary in February.

Speaking of barbs--do you know if anyone has ever been able to call one in? On Monday I was sitting under a juniper between two drainages when a couple barbary lambs that I'd been watching all day started wailing away on the ridge to my left. They sounded just like domestic lambs (earlier that day I'd watched them get separated from a herd of nine by a fence that they weren't willing to try to jump). Within a few seconds a herd of five barbs that I didn't know was there came charging over the ridge to my right, and just about ran over me trying to get to those lambs. This group included a big high 20s ram and was not the same group that I'd seen the lambs get separated from earlier. The lead ewe was answering back, which also sounded like a domestic ewe, but with a lower frequency between the "eh eh ehs".

Makes me think that before February I need to find a predator call that sounds like a distressed lamb and go out do some practicing...

 

[nmtaxi]

Awesome buck!!! I love big forkies. Congrats.

 

[elkmuzzleloader]

Nice buck congrats.

 

[5yearcoueshunter]

Congrats Mozey! Good looking buck! Sounds like you made a good shot too!

Travis

 

[NMdukefan]

I've never heard of anyone calling in a sheep. They are very skiddish animals. I will ask some people that I know that hunt them more than I do and I will let you know what I find out.

 

[mozey]

Heh--probably was my all-time luckiest--I'd rather prefer them to hold still long enough to let me get the bi-pod out of my pack...

 

[mozey]

I've been googling and I haven't been able to find a mouth call for a lamb--that surprises me. A couple electronic ones, but I don't think those would be legal here.

I've been hunting sheep for seven years now and until last Monday I'd never heard them be vocal at all--but then it's pretty hard to get close to a group of them that would be talking. That herd of five crossed two drainages and what I guess was about 600 yards to get to those lambs. They pretty much threw caution to the wind, coming on a dead run, stopping about every 50 yards to call back. I wonder if they actually were the lead momma's of that group, and were not really a part of the nine that I watched leave them behind at the fence about three hours earlier. In between groups, I also watched them run right up to a group of six deer (all does), and hang out with them for about 30 minutes. The smallest does (fawns?) were still about twice as big as the either of the two lambs. It amazes me how tolerant these two species can be of each other.