Stone Sheep pics last week

[Bear Chaser]

Went north for grizzly last week. No luck with the bears but did manage to get a few sheep pics. Hopefully these guys put on a few more inches before the season starts.

New links.

http://s958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69/BearChaser/Stone%20Sheep/


http://s958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69/BearChaser/Stone%20Sheep%202/

[yama49]

nice pics, to bad about the grizzly luck.....

[Stone Sheep Steve]

The first one appears to be old enough.

Nice pics!

SSS

[moosinaround]

The first one appears to be old enough.

Nice pics!

SSS
Awe geese, here we go again, little earlier than usual this year??!!!!:wink:

Nice Sheep for sure!!

[Rattler]

Great pics! Thanks for sharing...

[sheep.elk.moose fanatic]

nice pics looks like the first one is 8 or 9 but hard to tell:neutral: not over the nose i will pass..lol

[olharley guy]

Howdy, great pictures-one more year! Later

[yukon john]

first one is old enough for sure, I get a definate 9 other two arent far off 7 or 8 hard to tell with the pic, very nice pics thanks for sharing

[mark]

Id shoot that first ram on age, based on what I can see! Nice pics!

[BCrams]

First one is definatly legal by age. The 2nd one is also legal by age from what I can see.....small ram though.

[Sitkaspruce]

Link does not work for me..........

Cheers

SS

[ufishifish2]

Link does not work for me..........


Me neither!:(

[Bear Chaser]

Link does not work for me..........

Cheers

SS

Sorry. Links should work now. I was still adding pics before.

[jml11]

Anyone notice the two different colored eyes on this ram? Wonder if he is blind in the blue eye?

http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69/BearChaser/Stone%20Sheep/SS10.jpg

[daycort]

I told ya you could do it, JP.

You did a good job making sure there where no motorhomes in the background.hahaha..

Did the boy Keep up??


Anyone notice the two different colored eyes on this ram? Wonder if he is blind in the blue eye?


Just a reflection in bottom of eye.

[Bear Chaser]

I told ya you could do it, JP.

You did a good job making sure there where no motorhomes in the background.hahaha..

Did the boy Keep up??





Here's one for you.

http://s958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69/BearChaser/?action=view&current=SS17.jpg


The boy kept up OK. I was scared to take him across a couple creeks that were flowing pretty fast & deep so we didn't get into everywhere I wanted to go.

[daycort]

The boy kept up OK. I was scared to take him across a couple creeks that were flowing pretty fast & deep so we didn't get into everywhere I wanted to go.

I am sure he had fun with his dad and NOT going to school. He is a good kid.

[dutchie]

Anyone notice the two different colored eyes on this ram? Wonder if he is blind in the blue eye?

http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69/BearChaser/Stone%20Sheep/SS10.jpg


So I am no expert but by the way I am counting I am going to say 9.5 years old...more like 9.25 but bu hunting season I am going with 9.5

Am I counting right? I have added 1 year on for the lamb tip but this guy is starting to broom the tips a bit...

I was told at hunting season, add 1.5 years on to a stone, and 3 on for a Big horn... I do not know the validity of either method for adding years.

I was also told that is there is a heavily Broomed ram and the Lamb tips were broomed off, the Larges annuli is always the 4th year... Can anyone verify this?

Nice pictures BTW!

Dutchie

[boxhitch]

I was told at hunting season, add 1.5 years on to a stone, and 3 on for a Big horn... I do not know the validity of either method for adding years.
the Larges annuli is always the 4th year...Should go with what you read on HBC instead of that crap. Take a look at some previous Bighorn threads.

edit- sorry for being blunt. Should have realized your post was an attempt at humour. Guess I need coffee.

[jml11]

Just a reflection in bottom of eye.

Reflection of what? That blue haze color is in all three photos of that ram in the same spot on the eye and they are all taken with different head angles...can sheep get glaucoma :wink:.

[bigwhiteys]

Great Pics... That first ram is 9... He'll be gone in a few more weeks, he's likely seen a buddy or two take lead. We watched a group of guys try and hammer a ram right there at the cut... They had 3 trucks, and radios.... One truck about 1 mile either side of the rockcut... They were waiting for a break in traffic and then would have popped the ram. We were onto their game, so we hung around and played stupid tourists until the rams left.

BearChaser, would you mind if I used some of these pictures? I am creating an article for my blog on field judging thinhorn sheep and I am having a hard time finding live pictures of rams, these would be helpful.

Carl

[crazysheephunter]

Great pic's,do bad about the Griz

[Mik]

Excellent photos, thanks for sharing. Better luck on the Grizz...next time.

[Bear Chaser]

BearChaser, would you mind if I used some of these pictures? I am creating an article for my blog on field judging thinhorn sheep and I am having a hard time finding live pictures of rams, these would be helpful.

Carl

Yeah go ahead. Just send me a link when it's done. Thank you for asking.

Jason

[rifleman]

great pictures. some nice rams there, couple are probally legal, but not nice enough. pass for me

[hunter1947]

Nice pictures of the rams thanks for sharing..

[Duk Dog]

I noticed that as well. Cool pics, thanks for sharing.

http://i958.photobucket.com/albums/ae69/BearChaser/Stone%20Sheep/SS11.jpg