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<blockquote data-quote="gliechty" data-source="post: 239374" data-attributes="member: 2026"><p>I am back and the sheep hunting is over until luck turns my way for a Desert Bighorn.</p><p></p><p>The hunt opened on Nov. 1st and I was there at first light. I had a good friend with me to help with the spotting, packing, and generally just figuring out what to do. On the first day, we spotted 2 rams and 6 ewes at about 8am. The funny thing was, we spotted them in an area that gave me the feeling to just come back and check often. About five hundred yards to the north of this group we spotted two more young rams and three ewes. This was very encouraging to me to be seeing animals right away. I learned a few things about sheep this day. First, they are lazy! No need to be up at the crack of dawn as they don't start moving until a couple hours after day light. And second, in this unit, they have no fear of humans. </p><p></p><p>About the middle of the day, we ran into a hunter that was hunting the Rattlesnake unit that borders mine. Super nice guy from Toole Utah that had taken a Stone Sheep earlier in the fall. He said that he had seen a medium sized ram the night before. After we left him, we were driving down the road and looked out the left window to see a full curl ram 50 yards from the road. I just said RAM and slammed on the brakes. We stopped, and from the description from the other hunter, we knew it was the ram from the night before. I quickly guessed his score at 165 and drove back to where the other hunter was to let him know, as the ram was in his unit. We all followed the ram around for about a half hour as he checked out a few ewes. He was beautiful, but not a first day shooter. This is one of the two rams in the photo's posted by Sendero-man. We moved on and decided to set up camp and take a nap. At our camp site, we could see the two small rams, and 3 ewes from earlier in the morning, I took some pictures through the spotting scope to pass the time. We didnt see any big shooter rams the rest of the day. But, right at dusk, about 500 yards from camp, we heard rocks rolling down the cliffs. I spotted a dark colored ram on the cliffs heading to the south. I could tell he was better than anything had seen to that point, but it was too dark to get details on horn size. We thought for sure we would see him in the morning. Lesson number three, sheep move during the night, along way. We woke up to overcast skies and few sheep. It started raining so we called it a day. We saw sixteen rams, and twenty four ewes and lambs the first day. A very promising start!</p><p></p><p>Continued.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gliechty, post: 239374, member: 2026"] I am back and the sheep hunting is over until luck turns my way for a Desert Bighorn. The hunt opened on Nov. 1st and I was there at first light. I had a good friend with me to help with the spotting, packing, and generally just figuring out what to do. On the first day, we spotted 2 rams and 6 ewes at about 8am. The funny thing was, we spotted them in an area that gave me the feeling to just come back and check often. About five hundred yards to the north of this group we spotted two more young rams and three ewes. This was very encouraging to me to be seeing animals right away. I learned a few things about sheep this day. First, they are lazy! No need to be up at the crack of dawn as they don't start moving until a couple hours after day light. And second, in this unit, they have no fear of humans. About the middle of the day, we ran into a hunter that was hunting the Rattlesnake unit that borders mine. Super nice guy from Toole Utah that had taken a Stone Sheep earlier in the fall. He said that he had seen a medium sized ram the night before. After we left him, we were driving down the road and looked out the left window to see a full curl ram 50 yards from the road. I just said RAM and slammed on the brakes. We stopped, and from the description from the other hunter, we knew it was the ram from the night before. I quickly guessed his score at 165 and drove back to where the other hunter was to let him know, as the ram was in his unit. We all followed the ram around for about a half hour as he checked out a few ewes. He was beautiful, but not a first day shooter. This is one of the two rams in the photo's posted by Sendero-man. We moved on and decided to set up camp and take a nap. At our camp site, we could see the two small rams, and 3 ewes from earlier in the morning, I took some pictures through the spotting scope to pass the time. We didnt see any big shooter rams the rest of the day. But, right at dusk, about 500 yards from camp, we heard rocks rolling down the cliffs. I spotted a dark colored ram on the cliffs heading to the south. I could tell he was better than anything had seen to that point, but it was too dark to get details on horn size. We thought for sure we would see him in the morning. Lesson number three, sheep move during the night, along way. We woke up to overcast skies and few sheep. It started raining so we called it a day. We saw sixteen rams, and twenty four ewes and lambs the first day. A very promising start! Continued. [/QUOTE]
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