My 2008 Stone!!!

[Alpine85]

One evening while watching a few small rams feed, something caught my eye high up on the mountain. I cranked my spotter up and focused on the dark patch, to my suprise it was a mature ram. My brother and I watched the ram for about an hour, a little after 7 pm he got up from his bed and quickly started making his way down the mountain. We through are packs on and figured we needed to get closer. We picked are way up the mountain and made it to a great spot, the rams continued traveling are way. In the end the big ram somewhere bedded down or was just out of our view. Darryl and I slipped back down the hill at last light and called it a day.
The next morning we started making our way back into the area, we stopped to glass the mountain from a different angle, no ram. We continued hiking and glassing from another angle, no ram. On stop number 3 I spotted sheep, a minute later Darryl said he had the ram bedded. After a bit of talking out a plan of attack we both agreed the only way to get on the same elevation as this guy was to try and make it up an ignorant shale and boulder slide. We quickly loaded up and started making our long stalk to the ram. After what seemed like a life time of crawling up the mountain we made it to the first bench, a quick "best of 3 rock,paper,sisors" had me as the shooter (beat him with sisors twice):). Finially we hit the top, we slowly belly crawled over the top and hid behind a giant rock. Darryl through the range finder up and spotted the ram at just over 200 yards. We set the spotter up and picked him over for a few minutes. I then removed my shirt and layed it on a rock, Darryl plugged his ears and kept the spotter on the ram. BOOM, first shot ,ram was bedded and didn't even no what hit him, he stood up and a put another one in him.
I have to say, everything happened so fast, but couldn't of asked for anything better in our favour. A awesome trip and can't wait to find one for my bro now.

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[BCrams]

Congrats!! Your persistence eventually payed off!! He's a good looking ram.

Thats a nice looking Barney pack in the back ground ;)

[Kechika]

Awsome for your first

[buckguy]

Congrats!! Way to go, hard work for sure but definately worth it.

[yama49]

nice job alpine 85..nice looking ram

[willy442]

Nice Ram Congrats

[Bighorn hunter]

what a great ram!!!! congrats

bhh

[mark]

Super congrads Terry! Awesome ram! Nice pics! Cant wait to moleste them horns!

[Avalanche123]

Sweeeeeeeeeet! Good job on getting your first one! Woohoo. I love hearing these storys. :)

[6 K]

Nice one! Congrats

[Avalanche123]

Hey how did you like the Sitka gear you are wearing?
(Sorry for the thread drift so soon) I don't mean to take away from the highlight of your sheep.

[Archer]

Beauty ram!!!! Right on man! Congrats

[Gateholio]

Great Ram!!

Good for you!! :smile:

[GoatGuy]

Nice job buddy.

[ursus]

Heck of a Ram! Congrats on the Beauty!
Bring it to Harley!

[BCRiverBoater]

Nice ram. Do you have any dimensions? He looks like he carried his weight very well. Congrats once again. Now your bro has a guaranteed pack horse until he gets his.

[tufferthandug]

What killer way to start the fall hunting season!

[MIL720]

very nice...

[Blainer]

That is great!!!
"10"

[Kitimat Killer]

what a ram wow he's so heavy all the way through way too go love the paper,rock sissors idea haha now it don't matter next time you'll be packing but it will be worth it just to see your bro get one now and again congrats on the awesome ram

kk

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Huge Congrats Terry!!:cool:
He's a great looking ram!

I knew it was just a matter of time before you two connected.

SSS

[BCRiverBoater]

All you veteran sheep agers. What is this before he tells us. I have a number but I will see how I do. Very heavy ram....

[1/2 slam]

Nice Ram!!

[Fisher-Dude]

That's an awesome ram Terry! A million congrats! Looking forward to more of the story of your trip over a coupla cold pops!

[mark4]

nice ram forsure- good job !!

[Sitkaspruce]

All you veteran sheep agers. What is this before he tells us. I have a number but I will see how I do. Very heavy ram....

No offence BCRB, but WHO REALLY CARES!!!! I know you are curious, but it just seems to get off the post topic and ends up somewhere else.

All the other ram posts have been destroyed by the discussion of age vs populations vs full curl vs blah...blah..blah. GG and Willy what ever act like little kids when it comes to this. Lets focus on the great ram and the hunter, and forget about everything else. If we want to discuss the age, let Terry post it in the "other" post .

I will now get off my stool for the night:-D

Alpine, congrats on the great Ram and the great hunt with your brother. Looks like you had great weather.

Cheers

SS

[rifleman]

nice ram. full curl & heavy. way to go.

[Brambles]

Fantastic Job guys, beautiful ram, classic Rock/Paper/scissors victory. Gonna be some sweeeeeet memories.


By the way its "our" not "are" not that it really matters I still knew what you were getting at.

[wolverine]

Wow, nice animal. I'm not a sheep hunter but I can sure appreciate that. Good job!

[srupp]

congradulations that is a wonderful ram first or 50th he's a beautiful trophy ....WELL DONE...

very happy for you guys

Steven

[BCRiverBoater]

No offence BCRB, but WHO REALLY CARES!!!! I know you are curious, but it just seems to get off the post topic and ends up somewhere else.

All the other ram posts have been destroyed by the discussion of age vs populations vs full curl vs blah...blah..blah. GG and Willy what ever act like little kids when it comes to this. Lets focus on the great ram and the hunter, and forget about everything else. If we want to discuss the age, let Terry post it in the "other" post .

I will now get off my stool for the night:-D

Alpine, congrats on the great Ram and the great hunt with your brother. Looks like you had great weather.

Cheers

SS


No very good point. I can let it go on this post for sure. Guys can PM me or wait for it to show up another post.

Again great ram!!!

[GabeWalker]

For you guys that where wondering, we taped him at 163..His Left side was 35 1/2 " with 14" bases and the right was 35 with 14 1/14" bases..Both sides measured 13" for the 2nd mass measurement. He carrys the mass quite well. Neither of us had even seen a legal on a sheep hunt so it was an awesome feeling seeing him lay there!! Now its my turn, no matter how much bigger the next ram is hes mine and I got a personal pack horse :mrgreen:

[BigBanger]

Great looking ram , I realy like the face one the guy . Congrats .

[BCRiverBoater]

For you guys that where wondering, we taped him at 163..His Left side was 35 1/2 " with 14" bases and the right was 35 with 14 1/14" bases..Both sides measured 13" for the 2nd mass measurement. He carrys the mass quite well. Neither of us had even seen a legal on a sheep hunt so it was an awesome feeling seeing him lay there!! Now its my turn, no matter how much bigger the next ram is hes mine and I got a personal pack horse :mrgreen:

The personal packhorse is the best part. Now you can use him for years and years. Just hold out for the 170+ ram. Haha...make him pack your crap for ever.

Nice ram. I can not believe how he carries his weight. I knew he would have great second weight measurement. Super ram. 160+ plus ram is a nice ram let alone your first ever ram. Good job.

[hunter1947]

Very nice ram ,congrats on your first ram http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif.

[calvin L]

Congrats you two lucky hard working SOB. A great ram for anyone not just your first (make bro wait a bit longer )

[Viking]

Nice Ram, congrats

[BIGHUNTERFISH]

Awesome hunt and a great ram ,it must feel so satisfying to work that hard and get rewarded with a beautiful ram.:p

[BiG Boar]

I hope to one day soon experience a feeling of that kind of ram. Congradulations to all that were involved! Cool story also. Thanks for the read.

[Maxx]

Great Ram, Huge congrats!

[newhunterette]

beautiful beautiful - showed your pics to Peter and now he is even more stoked to get going this weekend for his trip

what a wonderful sheep congratulations

[harbinger]

Congrats on a beauty! How was the backstrap? What did you guys eat first?

[Shed Hunter]

congrats on a nice ram

[Caveman]

Beautuful Ram, Terry, Best of luck finding one for your brother........One Day I hope to be kneeling over one of those as well! :smile:

[BlacktailStalker]

Congrats to you, beauty !!

[sneg]

congrats. nice ram.

[308Lover]

I'm curious. The bottom picture does not seem to be the same ram is it? Top picture shows beautiful sharp points, bottom shows broomed left side.

[308Lover]

Awesome ram too by the way!

[GabeWalker]

308, same ram, the head on shot just doesnt show off the broomed. Hes heavily broomed on both sides

[Lil Buck]

Congrats great ram ......cheers sheep hunter....or should I say sheep killer

[blueboy]

sweet ram,well done good luck on your brothers next stone hunt

[Nimrod]

Now thats a nice Ram !!!!!!!!!!!!
good mass, loads of character.
Nice work, congrats.

[LeverActionJunkie]

Good on you thats a hell of a nice ram:)

[rocksteady]

Nice ram...Hope to hunt sheep one day....

He sure looks skinny in the second picture:mrgreen:

[guest]

Good on you Alpine 85 on your Ram!
He's a dandy !
Congrats.
C/T

[budismyhorse]

great ram! he is a beauty.

[Deaddog]

Congrats guys, I know you have put in the time to get your ram, great job!!

[kennyj]

Awesome Ram.It all came together.
kenny