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Chelan Butte Sheep
« on: October 01, 2011, 08:34:18 PM »
I got my sheep this last weekend.  I did alot of scouting this summer and this guy was the one that impressed me the most, he was the leader of any of the sheep that I seen him with. There is such a variety of horn styles on the Butte, but with his mass and width there was not much of a question for me he was the one I wanted. The first weekend I tried taking him with my bow and got within 55 yards, but with the constant wind didn't feel good about taking the shot. I ended up taking him with my 54 cal. Remington muzzleloader at 122 yards in a nasty canyon a few hundred yards up from the river. I want to thank Kelly and Mark, the guys who went with me and helped cape, debone and pack him out, couldn't have done it without you. I also want to thank Roley my taxidermist from wildlife creations, without him and his boat ride we might still be trying to get out of that steep azz canyon.

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2011, 08:38:37 PM »
Gorgeous Trophy!  Congratulations

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2011, 08:41:52 PM »
Congrats on a once in a lifetime trophy!

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2011, 08:42:26 PM »
Congrats beautiful animal

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2011, 08:45:21 PM »
With the heat we didn't have a lot of time for a variety of pictures.

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2011, 09:04:46 PM »
Congratulations on a fantastic ram.
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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2011, 09:09:54 PM »
Congrats.
One of these years my number will come up...
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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2011, 09:19:06 PM »
Nice!!

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2011, 09:39:58 PM »
Great ram!

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2011, 09:40:15 PM »
Congratulations! Nice ram. And also I like the fact that you got him with your smokepole.  If I ever draw a sheep tag, I would like to try to get one with my muzzleloader also, at least i'll give it a couple of days before I pull out the ole 270wsm :chuckle:

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2011, 10:20:41 PM »
So how many points did it take you to draw?

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2011, 10:56:11 PM »
 Great ram Matt, here is a pic for you from last year, should be him on the top of the pic, congratulations. :tup:
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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2011, 11:20:34 PM »
i have seen him the last three years when hunting up on the butte for deer he deffinantly is a big one i was hoping to get drawn this year and get him but oh well
i've always wanted to dress in a bigfoot costume and run by ppls trail cams so when they look at them their like wtf

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2011, 02:02:46 AM »
Nice Ram....Congrats
Just one more day

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Re: Chelan Butte Sheep
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2011, 03:09:46 AM »
That's a cool pic Huntphool. That looks like him on the top.

 


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