Below are a few pictures of some family & friends who have taken sheep out Arizona's Region 3. If you put your time & effort into scouting & hunting, you used to have a chance at harvesting 160-170 class ram. It was not uncommon to pass on 160-165 class sheep during the course of a hunt. Now days if you see a 160 class ram, in these areas you better shoot it!!! Not only is size down but numbers are WAY down.
1985* Bob Steele with his 13 yr old 163 7/8 Net ram. Saw several nice rams & counted over a 150 sheep in one day of hunting!
1986* Louy Lane with his 9 yr old 166 net ram. He shot this ram on the first day it had 10 inches of mass on his last measurement.
1992* Me with my 8 1/2 yr old 163 7/8 net ram. Taken on the second to last day & was the largest one out of the unit for the year. In 16 days of hunting we saw over 200 different sheep!
1995* Kenny Upton with his 8 1/2 yr old 159 net ram. Kenny past several rams in the mid 160's. He had to make quick decision on this ram & it ended up being the wrong ram.
1996* Rita Steele with her 6 1/2 yr old 170 net ram. She passed on several low 160's sheep before she harvested the biggest ram taken out of her unit for the year.
2002* James Clemens with his 9 yr old 159 net ram. This was the second biggest we saw & was the second biggest ram taken out of the unit during the year. We saw 114 sheep during his hunt.
This year I have a friend who is hunting in 15 CS, as some of you may already know from my other post "The Truth about Arizona Region 3" & we are still hunting as we speak. We have seen just 45 different sheep in 19 days of scouting & 11 days of hunting. The biggest group of rams, so far has been a band of 5. The biggest one may go 150-151 but is young, at 5 1/2 he is one of the oldest rams we have found. My friend said he would shoot him on the 29th of the month if we can not find a 160 class ram.
Two of the four hunters in the unit have tagged out, they took a 157 & a 137. Neither were older than 5 1/2! Things don't look to brite but we are going to keep searching, what else can we do.
Thanks,
Craig Steele
2003 Region 3 stats as of December 8th.
15D-
1. 155 some change
2. 155 "
3. 155 "
4. 155 "
5. Still hunting.
15 CS
1. 157 5 1/2 yrs
2. 137
3. Still hunting
4. "
15 CN
1. Still hunting
2. "
3. "
4. "
5. "
6. "
15 A
NA
15 BW
1. 138
2. Still hunting
16 A
1. NA
13 A & B
1. Still hunting
2. "
3. "
1985* Bob Steele with his 13 yr old 163 7/8 Net ram. Saw several nice rams & counted over a 150 sheep in one day of hunting!
1986* Louy Lane with his 9 yr old 166 net ram. He shot this ram on the first day it had 10 inches of mass on his last measurement.
1992* Me with my 8 1/2 yr old 163 7/8 net ram. Taken on the second to last day & was the largest one out of the unit for the year. In 16 days of hunting we saw over 200 different sheep!
1995* Kenny Upton with his 8 1/2 yr old 159 net ram. Kenny past several rams in the mid 160's. He had to make quick decision on this ram & it ended up being the wrong ram.
1996* Rita Steele with her 6 1/2 yr old 170 net ram. She passed on several low 160's sheep before she harvested the biggest ram taken out of her unit for the year.
2002* James Clemens with his 9 yr old 159 net ram. This was the second biggest we saw & was the second biggest ram taken out of the unit during the year. We saw 114 sheep during his hunt.
This year I have a friend who is hunting in 15 CS, as some of you may already know from my other post "The Truth about Arizona Region 3" & we are still hunting as we speak. We have seen just 45 different sheep in 19 days of scouting & 11 days of hunting. The biggest group of rams, so far has been a band of 5. The biggest one may go 150-151 but is young, at 5 1/2 he is one of the oldest rams we have found. My friend said he would shoot him on the 29th of the month if we can not find a 160 class ram.
Two of the four hunters in the unit have tagged out, they took a 157 & a 137. Neither were older than 5 1/2! Things don't look to brite but we are going to keep searching, what else can we do.
Thanks,
Craig Steele
2003 Region 3 stats as of December 8th.
15D-
1. 155 some change
2. 155 "
3. 155 "
4. 155 "
5. Still hunting.
15 CS
1. 157 5 1/2 yrs
2. 137
3. Still hunting
4. "
15 CN
1. Still hunting
2. "
3. "
4. "
5. "
6. "
15 A
NA
15 BW
1. 138
2. Still hunting
16 A
1. NA
13 A & B
1. Still hunting
2. "
3. "
