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<blockquote data-quote="ofbandg" data-source="post: 1830256" data-attributes="member: 91402"><p>I have taken them at 10 yards and at over 300. Most were taken in the two to three hundred range. I don't like longer shots because the terrain is steep and they hang out in canyons so the wind is often swirling and what is in your face where you are shooting may be reversed where the animal is. Unless they are hard hunted getting closer is often possible. They are not jumpy like deer, especially if sitting in the sun on a cool afternoon. Very seldom do you have to hurry a shot. The one I shot at ten yards was the only fast shot I took. I was walking down a creek bed in a canyon and when I passed under a cliff face I heard a noise above me. I looked straight up there was a large ram looking straight down at me. I brought my rifle up and shot, he leaped in the air and I had to dive out of the way because he landed right where I was standing. He was dead on the spot. It took me a few minutes to compose myself but I finally set about caping and boning him out. A few minutes into that, a softball sized stone whistled by my head from up on the cliff, so I ran out away from it and looked up and there were two more rams kicking rocks down on me. That was twice that day they almost got me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ofbandg, post: 1830256, member: 91402"] I have taken them at 10 yards and at over 300. Most were taken in the two to three hundred range. I don't like longer shots because the terrain is steep and they hang out in canyons so the wind is often swirling and what is in your face where you are shooting may be reversed where the animal is. Unless they are hard hunted getting closer is often possible. They are not jumpy like deer, especially if sitting in the sun on a cool afternoon. Very seldom do you have to hurry a shot. The one I shot at ten yards was the only fast shot I took. I was walking down a creek bed in a canyon and when I passed under a cliff face I heard a noise above me. I looked straight up there was a large ram looking straight down at me. I brought my rifle up and shot, he leaped in the air and I had to dive out of the way because he landed right where I was standing. He was dead on the spot. It took me a few minutes to compose myself but I finally set about caping and boning him out. A few minutes into that, a softball sized stone whistled by my head from up on the cliff, so I ran out away from it and looked up and there were two more rams kicking rocks down on me. That was twice that day they almost got me. [/QUOTE]
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