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Serious Hunter
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Absolutely 100 percent totally fabulous ... CONGRATULATIONS! |
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Provider
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Posts: 18
Location: Washington
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| Congratulations Joel. Sounds like it was a great hunt, and nice job on the photo's. I would love to see the video of the stalk. |
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tim
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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Location: north idaho
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| congratualations on a nice ram |
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Hambone
Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 35
Location: Idaho Falls
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| Congratulations on your ram. I have a week to wait and I'll be starting my hunt. Nice to have all that help from friends and family. |
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jraper
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 19
Location: Oregon
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| you can see the video out at www.theraperfamily.com/video |
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robert wand
Joined: 29 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject: some tips |
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1. look at the curl and make sure he's legal. of course a full curl is the best. you also want to judge the overall size of the curl since that translates to horn length. a big ram will look like you could fit a slowpitch ball through there. the horn will come down to his lower jaw. check out some pictures on the internet or in magazines and you will see what i mean.
2. look at the mass. start at the bases. if he looks heavy there, then look about halfway down the horn. if he looks as heavy there as he does at his base you can start to get excited. in any event, if he carries good mass all the way down then your in good shape.
3. Symmetry. look at both horns and at least see that hes not deformed and that both horns look approximately even.
4. broomed. the more of the horn tip that is broomed back the more length you loose. personally i would take a heavy horned animal that is broomed a bit rather than a sleek thinner horn even if it scores bettter. but that totally up to you.
chances are, that you wont be sitting there judging with alot of options. you'll be lucky to find a full curl or trophy class ram. work hard, enjoy the hunt and be happy with what god puts in front of you. |
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Flatlander
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| can anyone give me the measurements of an adult ram? Example: chest size (top of back to bottom of chest) etc. |
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Serious Hunter
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
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Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| My shoulder mount is 20 in. thick, top to bot ... hopefully someone will chime in with something more `live'. They are big animals. |
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Flatlander
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you for your quick response, i am going on my first bighorn hunt in alberta this fall ( last week of aug.) any tips would be greatly appreciated. |
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Serious Hunter
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Posts: 960
Location: Idaho
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| ... on my wall I have a pic I took of a very nice ram in Colorado ... making some assumptions regarding horn (curl) size in proportion to the rest of the body ... wallahhh ... I did some measurements on the pic ... and still come up with about 20 in. top of shoulder to bot. of chest. |
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dblx
Joined: 12 Jun 2004
Posts: 17
Location: Alberta Canada
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:20 am Post subject: Cadomin mine Rams Alberta |
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| Here is a pic of the rams my company hunts .the ram in the middle will score over 200 :D |
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