Spatsizi Stone Sheep

[ru rancher]

Hey guys just thought I'd post some photos from my father son hunt for stone sheep in the spatsizi park
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[ru rancher]

hope you guys like them would love to answer any questions (at my discretion of course)

[Cami]

looks like an awesome trip .
nice ram there too

[ru rancher]

thanks ya lots of hard work but getting 2 rams was more then worth it

[r106]

Great job on the rams. Very nice set of caribou sheds

["No Choke"Lord Walsingham]

Fantastic country!

What a lovely Sheep to harvest as well...

Looks like you all had a phenomenal time!

[Rattler]

Congrats to you and your son on your successful sheep hunt. Thanks for sharing.

[ru rancher]

I am the son but thanks :)

[ru rancher]

i used a 30-06 my dad used 270 wsm shot them lots at home both made 300 plus yard shots i belive my dads was 350 yards on the dot lots of wolf sign but no sightings we did how ever see 2 grizzleys we flew in july 31 walked as far as we could august first started walking farther periodicly checking areas both rams where side by side had them both down by 11:30 that morning tons of sheep sightings saw atleast one other legal ram later that day it was a 2 day hard pack out non stop walking for a day and a half feet had 20 blisters if i remember correctly because the weather was so hot no rain the whole time we where there meat survived and hides where in amazing shape so that was awesome and we had a SPOT worked good

[ryanb]

Congrats on two fine rams. The hardships will fade from your memory fast and all you will remember are the best parts.

[Rackem]

Congratulations! I was near there a few weeks ago on a Stone Sheep hunt, but I had to go back to work, my hunting buddy got a nice little ram on Sunday...all in he was up there a month...

Love that country, it's addictive...I need more time off lol!

[mikek blacktail]

nice ,I was standing in some of those spots last year:)

[Wood butcher]

Congrats on the rams. Great memories for you and your dad. Thanks for sharing

[Blainer]

Fantastic
Great share!

[d6dan]

Nice Rams, congrats to you and your dad. :-D

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Congrats to both of you!!! Extra nice to see a father-son sucessful sheep hunt!!!

What's up with the hide on the one ram????

SSS

[kayjayess]

Congratulations on two good looking rams. Is that your first? Very cool to share that with your Dad. As SSS mentioned - I am curious as to what is going on with your Dad's ram's hide?

Thanks for the great pictures and once again well done on a great hunt

[325]

Talk about a successful trip! Your Dad's ram still looks like its shedding?? I saw a ewe like that in early August, she also had a radio collar on her. Anyway, congratulations!!

[ydouask]

Thank you for the story and congratulations to both of you. Beautiful country.

[Fella]

Looks like a great hunt! Just had a buddy come from that area with a nice Ram as well!

[ru rancher]

Yes first rams for us both first sheep hunt also many more to come now though I'm hooked haha and ya my dads sheep had tons of winter hair on it still it was a 12 and a half year old ram missing 4 of the 8 bottom teath so we just figured the age had a big factor on why it had not shed all it's hair yet

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Yes first rams for us both first sheep hunt also many more to come now though I'm hooked haha and ya my dads sheep had tons of winter hair on it still it was a 12 and a half year old ram missing 4 of the 8 bottom teath so we just figured the age had a big factor on why it had not shed all it's hair yet

I've seen August 1st goats still shedding their winter coats but never any sheep. Weird........

SSS

[325]

Yes first rams for us both first sheep hunt also many more to come now though I'm hooked haha and ya my dads sheep had tons of winter hair on it still it was a 12 and a half year old ram missing 4 of the 8 bottom teath so we just figured the age had a big factor on why it had not shed all it's hair yet

Sounds like you did that ram a favour. Did you guys keep the cape?

[ru rancher]

Ya we got the cape on both the taxidermist said that most of that winter coat will come out when they tumble it he said he has saw that before on older rams

[BCbillies]

That's a great first sheep hunt. Have only seen nannies with partial winter coats come August.

[Jim Prawn]

Spectacular! Good for you guys, I'm 0/2 so far. Maybe next time....
JP

[ru rancher]

just curiouse what would you guys recomend for my next sheep hunt in BC i want it to be unguided and for a diffrent species of sheep preferably a hunt in august (i have school in september but if it happens to only be then ill put it on the list)? thanks for any in put

[BCbillies]

For an August hunt your options are Dalls and Stones so it looks like you're going for the white sheep next!

[ru rancher]

thats what i figured i also saw a season for rockey mountain bighorns that opens august 15 in region 7 any expieriance there storys anything? and ya what about way up north west BC for them dalls any knowledge there either?

[BCbillies]

Pulling a Rocky out of region 7 or a Dall out of BC is no easy task but a few have done it. I'd go for the Dalls myself. Do a search on the site and you'll find a few success stories.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

You'll have to draw an LEH for White sheep but not for Reg 7 bighorns. Put in for white sheep and have bighorns for a back up hunt.

SSS

[ru rancher]

thanks ill do so also plan to enter for goats in spatsizi have you ever heard of any big horns shot in that region?

[proguide66]

Great adventure! I never had a dad to hunt with , envious !! great memories!!! I must say , yer dads ram is the fugliest one I have seen !!! lolol...great trophy !

[blackbart]

Congrats to you and your Dad, nice rams for sure!!!. You have certainly grown lots since I last saw you ( think how long it has been since logging started behind your place)

On another note, the www is a smaller world than one would think. Be carefull.

[ru rancher]

that is deffinatly along time ago dont even hardly remember that haha and i can imagine expecially on a BC site :p

[kennyj]

Very nice!!! Looks like the trip of a lifetime. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
kenny

[1911]

Great father/son hunt! That is an experience to cherish.

[Mishka]

Beautiful country. Congrats on the rams. Looks like it was a great trip. Thanks for sharing

[cleighton]

Congrats on the rams! That must of been a hell of a hike out of that spot with two rams! Did ya end up havin to make a couple trips to the lake? Thanks for posting and sharing your trip!

[ru rancher]

a hell of a hike barley beggins to describe what we went through!! haha ya it was 2 trips to the lake needless to say next time i go sheep hunting im bringing a guy with out a tag when the walk is more then 2 hours hahaha

[Jelvis]

What year was this hunt ru rancher?
Nice photos
jel .. the year?

[dougan]

awesome memories to last a life time!!!!

[ru rancher]

the year was 2013 just last august

[Jelvis]

Cool, some really nice pictures thanks hunter for the wonderful story
J

[ru rancher]

always happy to share

[ru rancher]

ps right now im cooped up in a door room so telling hunting stories is the only way i can make it through this hahahaha

[ru rancher]

we took mountain house meals for dinners noodles for lunch oatmeal for breakfast and protien bars and some beef jerky and we had a jetboil id highly recomend the jetboil worked amazing everytime very fast but like i said we where on the mountain much less time then planned so idk how good are choices of food where seamed to work fine though

[Call of the Wild]

Good work guys, can't get better for a father and a son!!!

[deer nut]

Amazing. Love that country.

[WKCotts]

we took mountain house meals for dinners noodles for lunch oatmeal for breakfast and protien bars and some beef jerky and we had a jetboil id highly recomend the jetboil worked amazing everytime very fast but like i said we where on the mountain much less time then planned so idk how good are choices of food where seamed to work fine though

X2 on the JetBoil. That thing was priceless on my stone hunt last year

[ru rancher]

got our sheep heads back i know the LEH has got everyone busy checking if they got anything but ill post the pictures anyway not the best pictures because they are pretty high up but enjoy!
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[Salmon Belly]

It looks like they graduated!

Beauty rams -- congrats RU

SB

[4 point]

Very, very nice for sure. Well done.

[d6dan]

Beautys for sure.. love the flare..:-D

[decker9]

Those are a couple champs there, Nice work! Flying out with my dad in 21 days , hope to even have half the luck you and your dad did! Cheers!

[ru rancher]

thanks guys best of luck to everyone this year up on those mountains

[riflebuilder]

great rams thanks for sharing