Sheep Age Bighorn

[Wild Images]

With the opening coming up thought you guys might like this one to get the juices flowin :shock:
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/15780.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=10390&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=2692)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/54573.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=10389&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=2692)

[Kitimat Killer]

im going with 10.5 i think im lost on a couple of rings tho i'll post close up pics of my big horn when i go see it today

[calvin L]

I also get 9 1/2 or 10 . There are couple of rings I would like cleared up
I am sure If I had the horns in my hands I could see the real age :mrgreen:

[Stone Sheep Steve]

I'm usually wrong but I may as well keep guessing......:???:

9 1/2?? That's calling the first visible annuli 2 1/2.

Do you have any pics of Bighorns with some mass??:wink:


SSS

[hunter1947]

I will agree with K Killer on the age 10.5 years old.

[Brambles]

What a pig, I say 10.5 or 11.5, first I came up with 13.5 but me thinks there is a few falsies in there.

[BCrams]

.....a few nice false rings in there .......:eek:

Hint - don't just look at one horn to come up with the age. Look at both sides to ID false rings from one side to the other and to match growth rings.

[horshur]

8.5 Just taking a stab at it

[Sitkaspruce]

I am going to go with 8.5, but would accept 9.5 as there is one annuli that is in question....

SS

[Huey]

Throwing a shot in the dark... I'd say 6.5-7 yrs, but then i'd be laughed at so i'll say 8.5... ya I'm green and have been doing my age learning mostly on stones. i hear bighorns are quite a bit different to age, would anyone care to eductae me on the major differences when aging? Thanks.

[6616]

I'm going for 10 1/2 with 2 false annulli, this is not a young ram, note mass and diameter at 3rd quarter.

[Gateholio]

I think it's 8.5

And I also think we need to start a new forum, just for sheep aging threads:wink:

[BCRiverBoater]

I am thinking 8.5 as well. Have never tried aging a Bighorn with kind of mass. The first ring I am counting may be 2.5 not 1.5 but I am going with 8.5.

[Wild Images]

I couldn't find a heavier one but if you guys look way way up in the B&C book you will find this fellow. I cheated a bit on this one, I bought him off of Duncan Gilchrist at the wild sheep fundraiser in Langly years ago.
It is a copy of The Martin Bovey ram, he scores out at 207 2/8 and is around 13 1/2 tears old.
It is a very impressive thing to put your hands on, yah he carries a little mass :smile:

[Brambles]

Hey I was the winner......hehehehehe

[Lil Buck]

9 here 9.5 maybe

[Lil Buck]

What is a tears by the way??????