Took a guy out yesterday in the Tieton unit who was having a little trouble sealing the deal on a ram. He's been out for 20 days and hadn't found a ram he wanted to hang a tag on, so I said I'd help him out. We started hiking at 0630, climed up a nasty, steep spine ridge where I had heard of a couple good rams. We gained around 1200 feet when we spotted our first ram, he ran out of the canyon to our West and over the next ridge into the Wild Rose fire! After a couple of hours of hiking around to the east and glassing we decided to cross back over two ridges to the west and see if there were any more rams with the half curl we saw earlier. After a LOT of gain/loss of elevation and sidehilling, we got onto the ridge where the ram went. By now it was 1130 and we were very low on water. We glassed for a while and weren't seeing anything, so we pounded our remaining water and decided to head down to the cars and relocated. We hadn't gone 100 yards, when I look across the canyon and see 7 rams headed up the far side. I quikly threw the big glass on them and saw three shooters! We thought they were going to climb up and out of the canyon on us so we tried a very long shot, with a clean miss. But it did turn the rams and they went up the canyon and bedded on the shade of a big fir tree. So, we came up with a plan and made a grueling 2.5 hours stalk cover just 200 yards. About 1430 we finally got setup at 422 yards. After a little chaos and a couple misses, we finally anchored this awsome ram at 490 yards. It took us another 3 hours just to get up too the ram for the pics. After an unbelievable packout, we finally got back to the cars at 8:20 pm. An extremely exhausting but amazing day and a great ram. Thanks Brian for choosing to hunt with Rugged Class Outfitters.
