After being blessed with a Nevada Desert Bighorn tag while still being able to hike the mountains and having my youngest daughter Kristy re-arrange her schedule, I was able to take a 9-10 yoa ram.
Here is Kristy ducking winds below the ridge line during glassing rams;
A couple of rams in the skyline on day 2;
Having found two excellent rams, one got pushed out of a coulee by four immature rams. A huge stud that pushed 32" in length with mass disappeared off the ridge like big rams do as I was preparing for the shot. We looked hard the next day for that big ram who had 17 other rams nearby only to find big lion tracks! The tracks were identical to these that my brother-in-law Larry and I found the week before.
On Sunday we found an old warrior feeding at the top of ridge near a rock face. After about an hour and twenty minutes of climbing one ridge down wind we crawled to a rock outcrop and found him on full alert with a smaller ram directly in front of him. As the sun was rapidly getting close to setting over the western mountains there was little time to waste. As the two rams increasingly got nervous, I made a lethal shot that took out the off shoulder. A follow-up shot was made for insurance and ram dropped out of sight. He was found quickly and was done.
I would like to thank my wonderful daughter for making a dream hunt memories of a lifetime. Many heartfelt thanks to Keith Montes and Gary Coleman of Nevada High Ridge Outfitters for finding so many rams to look at and putting me on a old warrior. Also thanks to Jim Billingsley of Jim Dandy Productions for filming the hunt and my brother-in-law Larry Berg for the scouting/hunting trip the week before.
Ed
Here is Kristy ducking winds below the ridge line during glassing rams;
A couple of rams in the skyline on day 2;
Having found two excellent rams, one got pushed out of a coulee by four immature rams. A huge stud that pushed 32" in length with mass disappeared off the ridge like big rams do as I was preparing for the shot. We looked hard the next day for that big ram who had 17 other rams nearby only to find big lion tracks! The tracks were identical to these that my brother-in-law Larry and I found the week before.
On Sunday we found an old warrior feeding at the top of ridge near a rock face. After about an hour and twenty minutes of climbing one ridge down wind we crawled to a rock outcrop and found him on full alert with a smaller ram directly in front of him. As the sun was rapidly getting close to setting over the western mountains there was little time to waste. As the two rams increasingly got nervous, I made a lethal shot that took out the off shoulder. A follow-up shot was made for insurance and ram dropped out of sight. He was found quickly and was done.
I would like to thank my wonderful daughter for making a dream hunt memories of a lifetime. Many heartfelt thanks to Keith Montes and Gary Coleman of Nevada High Ridge Outfitters for finding so many rams to look at and putting me on a old warrior. Also thanks to Jim Billingsley of Jim Dandy Productions for filming the hunt and my brother-in-law Larry Berg for the scouting/hunting trip the week before.
Ed
