Coues 'n' Sheep Report post Posted February 3, 2008 Back in mid-summer of last year the Super Raffle results were discussed on a thread here on CW.com and a new member ehunt posted that he was the lucky winner of the desert sheep tag in the raffle. The Supper Raffle hunter may only hunt specific Nelsoni units in Northern AZ. I was the very fortunate to get to hunt with Eric Hunt on this awesome "Once in a Lifetime" hunt. Many days were spent afield in different units and many rams were passed. I have to say that Eric is a man of physical and mental toughness. He hunted hard and glassed harder. He earned a First Rate Ram back in Mid-November.... One of the Largest Nelsoni Desert rams taken in AZ in 2007. He folded this ram up with a one shot kill at over 300 yds. It was a Pleasure and an Honor to be apart of such a special hunt and I gained a new friendship with a first rate hunter in the process. Congrats Eric and thanks for Finally agreeing to post your ram! I am sure Eric can tell the story of his hunt better than I can.... hopefully he will. I appollogize for the bad light in some of the pics.... we were in the mouth of a deep canyon, with a 1000 foot vertical drop infront and 600 ft vertical climbs on both sides. With light fading in the canyon fast we did the best we could, but the brightness of the giant gorge below stole alot of color from the pics. Gino Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues Sniper Report post Posted February 3, 2008 Wow, GREAT ram! Judging from those scars he was a warrior. Congrats ehunt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tjhunt2 Report post Posted February 3, 2008 Congratulations to Eric on a fine looking ram. That had to have been a pleasure to be along on such a memorable hunt of a life time Gino. TJ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAM Report post Posted February 4, 2008 Way to go Eric and Gino!!! I hope someday I can draw a sheep tag and get similar results. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SilentButDeadly Report post Posted February 4, 2008 so those are scars on his face? Pretty swollen looking... sweet ram. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted February 4, 2008 That ram is a beast! I love all the character he's got, wide flaring, dark colored, and tons of battle scars........that's a freakin' awesome ram!!!! Thanks to Eric for lettin' Gina post the pic's and congrats to you both on a once in a lifetime experience! Would love to hear the whole story Congrats again, JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Huntn coues Report post Posted February 4, 2008 Great ram Eric. I know you and Gino worked your butts off to get that ram and every time I called Gino to see how it was going he would tell me what you guy's endured every day in the field. (amazing) If I ever get a tag I will have to have you , Gino and Colton there to pack my butt up them hills. ( I can go down just fine) Anyhow the next time you are in my area stop in and we can throw a could one back. Maybe we could all get together and do another BBQ the next time your blowing thru to go to Wickenburg. Troy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Huntn coues Report post Posted February 4, 2008 That ram is a beast! I love all the character he's got, wide flaring, dark colored, and tons of battle scars........that's a freakin' awesome ram!!!! Thanks to Eric for lettin' Gina post the pic's and congrats to you both on a once in a lifetime experience! Would love to hear the whole story Congrats again, JIM> Hey is that a typo??? Gina Suits em just fine! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues 'n' Sheep Report post Posted February 4, 2008 so those are scars on his face? Pretty swollen looking... sweet ram. The "swollen look" is from a badly broken nose.... It was completely healed. The entire hump on his nose is solid bone. It was the toughest sheep head I have ever caped..... it took an extra 10-15 minutes just cape that big scar with all the jagged ridges of bone right under it! I hope that the guys at the taxidermy shop can make that ram look as awesome as he was in real life with that wicked Roman nose!! CnS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues 'n' Sheep Report post Posted February 4, 2008 That ram is a beast! I love all the character he's got, wide flaring, dark colored, and tons of battle scars........that's a freakin' awesome ram!!!! Thanks to Eric for lettin' Gina post the pic's and congrats to you both on a once in a lifetime experience! Would love to hear the whole story Congrats again, JIM> Hey is that a typo??? Gina Suits em just fine! HaHaHa...... Bla Bla Bla! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jamaro Report post Posted February 4, 2008 great job... Jason Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ehunt Report post Posted February 4, 2008 hey thanks gino and everyone for the great comments!!! i will get a story on here as soon as i get a little bit of time troy we should definitely have another bbq, that was a great time!!! thanks again eric Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues 'n' Sheep Report post Posted February 5, 2008 hey thanks gino and everyone for the great comments!!! i will get a story on here as soon as i get a little bit of time troy we should definitely have another bbq, that was a great time!!! thanks again eric Love the new Avitar, Buddy! That is Sa-Weet!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bowhunter4life Report post Posted February 5, 2008 Erik. that is an awesome ram for the unit that you hunted. sounds like all the effort you and gino gave paid big dividends! it is always great to hear that even the auction tag winners are down to earth and are great people and not just a $ throughing machine trying to impress people they don't really like anyways... again, that is a great accomplishment to your hard work! a true lifetime ram. mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hunterdan Report post Posted February 5, 2008 Great story and Pictures. Awesome Ram. We all dream of that some day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
