cmille308

Good for you! Sounds like you had a fantastic once in a lifetime hunt, and have a great ram to look at in the years to come to remind you of that hunt! Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

my dad is hopefully next up, at 73 he just slowed down on falling trees. He will up for going hard for while yet!

Have fun in the Pintas! We ever get back into the Cabeza I'll give you a holler!

Great looking Ram! It’s awesome your family was right there with you!

I live 20 minutes from the factory and was in there today with my son getting our knives sharpened and they sold 6 of those just in the 20 minutes we were there. Somebody likes them! Won’t find one in my house though, a lot of other gear I’d rather spend that money on!

Awesome ram! Your going to enjoy looking at that one for a long time!

I talked to my 14yo who has quite a collection of knives. He likes his Buck 110 but brought up a good point that fixed blades can rattle around creating noise and catch on things when going through brush. He loves his benchmade crooked river and for a fixed blade the rag horn. I concur on his recommendation of benchmade. His crooked river got a chip in the wood and when we took it in for sharpening they put brand new wood on as well. All part of their warranty. The chip was on a corner from him dropping it on our brick floor.

I wonder if “it’s” actually a llama?!

Helped a friends boy get this ram on his 14th birthday! 2nd and last sheep hunt of the year (for me) up in Oregon, just thought I’d keep the excitement up for guys with Nov/Dec Ram tags! He green scored 169 even.

This year I again get the priviledge to go as a helper on two different sheep hunts up here in Oregon. Both of the hunts are in big river canyons, the Deschutes and the John Day. Here is the story of the first one..... Got this ram opening morning. There was a group of three rams that were hanging out right by the river that had two good rams. They were the best rams we had seen through multiple scouting trips. We decided to make a move on them opening morning, so I was sitting on them an hour before daylight. When it got light we got them located and made a game plan to get in range. Trevor and Hunter (tag holder) kayaked across the river and started climbing a ridge. My son Tate and I stayed on the access road where we had a good view of the rams and watched them bed down. Trevor had lost where they were and thought he and Hunter were a lot closer to the rams then they actually were. Thinking the rams were only 2-3 hundred yards down the hill, Trevor started looking over the rock outcrop they were standing on. The rams, being about 5 hundred yards, immediately spotted him skylined looking over the rocks. Up they got and away they went! Tate and I jumped in our vehicle and followed them around the hillside. They were on the end of a big ridge so all Hunter and Trevor needed to do was hop over ridge and they were able to keep track of them for a little while but lost them when they dropped into small side canyon. Tate and I had them all the way and climbed up the opposite side of the main canyon to get enough elevation to keep track of them as they came out of that side canyon and went up another, finally stopping and began feeding again about a 1/2 mile further up into a bowl. I radioed to Trevor and told him I had them located and they had finally stopped. He replied back and said “ yeah, we’re right on top of them waiting for the big one to stand up.”. I was completely confused, how could they have gotten that far down the main ridge to get above the bowl that fast? Then it hit me... they were on the wrong sheep! I jumped back on the radio and said “Trevor, I think your looking at the wrong rams!”. This time he was confused, he asked “are you sure? I saw those rams go right here and I think the big one is lying right below us!”. I told him I was sure, but if they were sitting on a big ram to really look him over because now we had options! After close to an hour of sitting and changing positions trying to get a better vantage point, I finally saw the ram they were looking at stand up. They were right, he was a good ram that carried his mass really well! While I was looking him over, I saw him jump then heard the crack of the rifle! The ram didn’t look hit but he ran about 50 yards sidehilling down and away from them then stopped and looked back. This time I saw the ram bow his head and short stepped straight downhill before loosing his feet and tumbling to the bottom of the draw at the report on the rifle. 1st ram down, and it has gotten me excited for next months hunt! ning morning. There was a group of three rams that were hanging out right by the river that had two good rams. They were the best rams we had seen through multiple scouting trips. We decided to make a move on them opening morning, so I was sitting on them an hour before daylight. When it got light we got them located and made a game plan to get in range. Trevor and Hunter (tag holder) kayaked across the river and started climbing a ridge. My son Tate and I stayed on the access road where we had a good view of the rams and watched them bed down. Trevor had lost where they were and thought he and Hunter were a lot closer to the rams then they actually were. Thinking the rams were only 2-3 hundred yards down the hill, Trevor started looking over the rock outcrop they were standing on. The rams, being about 5 hundred yards, immediately spotted him skylined looking over the rocks. Up they got and away they went! Tate and I jumped in our vehicle and followed them around the hillside. They were on the end of a big ridge so all Hunter and Trevor needed to do was hop over ridge and they were able to keep track of them for a little while but lost them when they dropped into small side canyon. Tate and I had them all the way and climbed up the opposite side of the main canyon to get enough elevation to keep track of them as they came out of that side canyon and went up another, finally stopping and began feeding again about a 1/2 mile away up into a bowl. I radioed to Trevor and told him I had them located and they had finally stopped. He replied back and said “ yeah, we’re right on top of them waiting for the big one to stand up.”. I was completely confused, how could they have gotten that far down the main ridge to get above the bowl that fast? Then it hit me... they were on the wrong sheep! I jumped back on the radio and said “Trevor, I think your looking at the wrong rams!”. This time he was confused, he asked “are you sure? I saw those rams go right here and I think the big one is lying right below us!”. I told him I was sure, but if they were sitting on a big ram to really look him over because now we had options! After close to an hour of sitting and changing positions trying to get a better vantage point, I finally saw the ram they were looking at stand up. They were right, he was a good ram that carried his mass really well! While I was looking him over, I saw him jump then heard the crack of the rifle! The ram didn’t look hit but he ran about 50 yards sidehilling down and away from them then stopped and looked back. This time I saw the ram bow his head and short stepped straight downhill before loosing his feet and tumbling to the bottom of the draw at the report on the rifle. 1st ram down, and it has gotten me excited for next months hunt! He ended up scoring out at 174 with 3 inches of deductions for 171 (unofficial until the 30 day drying period of course).

Ha! My mind is so consumed with sheep hunts, I saw your ad and immediately thought it was new workout to get in sheep country shape! Good luck with your sell!

He is pretty new to hunting and it was his first time putting in for a sheep tag. Oregon doesn't do points for OIL tags so every year everyone is on the same playing field (be thankful for your system!). We were absolutely relentless on him! He's a good kid and knows how fortunate he is!

Good to know! Thanks Eddie!

I had sent the story as an email to someone and it ended up with the white highlights when I put it here.

It hurt my heart reading this! definitely will be praying for you, your kids and even for the ones that need the most prayers. I downright pity anyone not right with God!

Well stated about the Cabeza Prieta hunts! Congrats on a great ram! Looks and sounds like you absolutely did it justice!

That's how a DIY sheep hunt should be! Congrats to your daughter and my hat off to you for a job well done!

Can’t wait to hear and see how you did! A lot of fun is about to happen!

What did you end up getting?

Good Luck!

Got em both, I'd like to see the one with eye guards better!

If thats what he has to do to have something to brag about... Karma is already at work and it will just keep on rolling!

Awesome job! thank you for sharing!

BTW I thank you all for not forgetting! My crew and I observed a minute of silence gathered around the flag yesterday morning once for each tower. Afterward we were chatting about the riots in Portland and how the cops there and elsewhere are being treated and we all agreed that people had forgot so I thank you!

I was driving a semi for a local dairy outfit, was pulling off the freeway in Cottage Grove Oregon by the truck stop and I saw several middle eastern drivers celebrating in the parking lot. I had no idea what was going on and continued on to the small convenience store to make my delivery. When I got there the store owner was standing at the front of the store watching TV and crying. I asked her what was going on and we both were standing there when the second plane hit. I am now a senior career firefighter/paramedic for one of the largest deparments in Oregon.