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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: norsepeak on September 25, 2012, 07:22:55 AM

Title: Big Ram Down.
Post by: norsepeak on September 25, 2012, 07:22:55 AM: 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.
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Post by: ShaneTyTrey on September 25, 2012, 07:25:35 AM: Good Ram and Good Story!!! Thanks for sharing
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Post by: grundy53 on September 25, 2012, 07:31:36 AM: :tup:
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Post by: stickbuck on September 25, 2012, 07:38:38 AM: That's an awesome animal buddy! Congrats! :tup:
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Post by: blacktailer on September 25, 2012, 08:06:37 AM: Right on Norse. Good for you for helping a brother out and helping fulfill a OIL dream. Great looking ram in some rugged looking country.
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Post by: boneaddict on September 25, 2012, 08:10:19 AM: Very nice. Interesting turn with the burn action happening. That country is awesome
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Post by: woodywsu on September 25, 2012, 08:12:23 AM: Great ram.
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Post by: quadrafire on September 25, 2012, 08:16:14 AM: WOW... That is some tough looking country. Nice Ram
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Post by: engelwood on September 25, 2012, 08:16:24 AM: Good work and nice ram! Sounds like a grueling day!
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Post by: X-Force on September 25, 2012, 08:24:21 AM: Quote from: quadrafire on September 25, 2012, 08:16:14 AM
WOW... That is some tough looking country. Nice Ram
:yeah: :tup:
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Post by: fillthefreezer on September 25, 2012, 08:43:35 AM: awesome! does the hunter post on here?
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Post by: Huntbear on September 25, 2012, 08:49:33 AM: Awesome Norse... Great job by the hunter..

:tup: :tup:
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Post by: Gringo31 on September 25, 2012, 08:54:28 AM: Wow....beautiful country

:tup:
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Post by: Glockster on September 25, 2012, 08:57:36 AM: SWEET! I have not been up those breaks since i was a dumb teenager. I'm not man enough anymore to go up there.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on September 25, 2012, 09:03:13 AM: That works ...nice Ram ... congrats ... cool pictures too ! :tup: :tup:
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Post by: shanevg on September 25, 2012, 09:17:21 AM: Congrats to the hunter!
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on September 25, 2012, 09:33:16 AM: Awesome!! Nice going to you and the hunter!!! :tup:
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Post by: elkoholic1 on September 25, 2012, 09:48:05 AM: awesome ram congrats to you guys!!!! :tup:
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Post by: huntnphool on September 25, 2012, 09:49:51 AM: Congrats to all involved, a nice ram for sure. :tup:
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Post by: yote on September 25, 2012, 10:01:53 AM: Congrats! Nothing like a well earned hunt in beautiful country such as that :tup:
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Post by: bearhunter99 on September 25, 2012, 10:23:06 AM: Great ram, congrats to the hunter and his guide! :tup: :tup:
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Post by: hunting4sanity on September 25, 2012, 10:39:48 AM: From that hunt description it don't sound like you guys were road hunting. :chuckle: Congrats to both of you on a great looking ram!
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Post by: Ridgerunner on September 25, 2012, 11:11:59 AM: You definitely earn them in that unit. Good looking ram, what was the other side like?
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Post by: coachcw on September 25, 2012, 11:48:57 AM: great hunt
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Post by: Maligator on September 25, 2012, 11:57:14 AM: Congrats to the hunter on the ram and kudos to you for helping him out :tup: :tup:
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Post by: norsepeak on September 25, 2012, 02:36:18 PM: other side
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Post by: denali on September 25, 2012, 02:39:58 PM: well done Norsepeak and hunter :tup:
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Post by: firefighter4607 on September 25, 2012, 03:01:41 PM: Congrats to the hunter! Nice job Norsepeak :tup:
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Post by: RadSav on September 25, 2012, 03:23:10 PM: Color on that ram is cool. Is that from bedding in the ash or is that a natural color for up there?
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Post by: Basket Rack on September 25, 2012, 07:24:40 PM: Nice ram, I was wondering the same thing about the color?
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Post by: SkookumHntr on September 25, 2012, 07:32:16 PM: That is awesome!!
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Post by: norsepeak on September 25, 2012, 07:33:03 PM: Hard to say, all the rams looked the same as far as color and they were all living within the boundary of the fire so...
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Post by: bearpaw on September 25, 2012, 07:45:14 PM: great hunt, good job... :tup:
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Post by: gasman on September 25, 2012, 07:47:29 PM: Damn Ty, you are Rugged Class :tup:

Great ram :kneel:
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Post by: Mudman on September 25, 2012, 07:51:51 PM: :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup: Congrats on awesome animal. Seen one at taxidermist yesterday as well. Dont think it was quite as nice but still great. Such a cool animal. Great job to both.
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Post by: Wanttohuntmore on September 25, 2012, 08:22:13 PM: Nice job guys! Love that country!
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Post by: mkcj on September 25, 2012, 08:28:04 PM: Nice Ram! And that is some BIG country.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on September 25, 2012, 08:37:42 PM: Very cool!!! Congrats to the hunter :tup: Thanks for sharing :tup:
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Post by: h2ofowlr on September 25, 2012, 08:47:10 PM: A nice one. Looks like some work to pack it out of that area.
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Post by: Austrian Hunter on September 25, 2012, 08:52:28 PM: Great job!! Awesome Ram!!!
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Post by: MLBowhunting on September 25, 2012, 09:13:17 PM: Way to go the extra mile :tup:
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Post by: time2hunt on September 25, 2012, 09:18:59 PM: Nice ram tell Brian congrats know you too can go back to work and get something done.
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Post by: RadSav on September 25, 2012, 10:56:58 PM: I don't see myself putting in for the Tieton unit any time soon. Man! That looks like some serious work not for the cripple of foot or weak of heart.
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Post by: Dode on September 28, 2012, 09:27:35 AM: Nice ram in some rugged country. Great job!
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Post by: D-Rock425 on September 28, 2012, 09:30:14 AM: That's awesome.
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Post by: FSTaxidermy on September 28, 2012, 09:58:38 AM: Awesome Ram, nice work getting setup on him, congrats to the hunter :tup:
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Post by: ANDYW on September 28, 2012, 01:32:05 PM: Congrats on a nice ram!!!
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Post by: SuperDave on September 29, 2012, 09:14:13 AM: Right on! Nice looking ram!
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Post by: Falcon on October 01, 2012, 08:10:29 PM: Awesome ram!!

Your never quit attitude paid off in some rough terrain!

Way to get it done!
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Post by: igotbigbulls on October 02, 2012, 07:17:22 AM: :tup:
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Post by: BIGMIKE on October 07, 2012, 12:06:56 PM: :drool: :tup: one day!!!
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Post by: norsepeak on October 12, 2012, 01:31:41 PM: Anybody else put a big ram down this year???
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Post by: dbor on October 12, 2012, 01:46:18 PM: Nice ram and story. ..congrats to all.
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Post by: nw_bowhunter on October 12, 2012, 02:11:42 PM: Very impressive, good job
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Post by: huntnphool on October 14, 2012, 04:57:38 PM: Quote from: norsepeak on October 12, 2012, 01:31:41 PM
Anybody else put a big ram down this year???
Whoopinstick did. :tup:
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Post by: norsepeak on October 14, 2012, 08:47:46 PM: didn't happen without a pic....you know the rules phool.... :sry:
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Post by: oldleclercrd on October 14, 2012, 09:10:35 PM: Nice ram and beautiful country!
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Post by: sled on October 14, 2012, 09:28:47 PM: :tup:
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Post by: time2hunt on October 16, 2012, 06:21:34 PM: Quilamine ram 15.5 bases and 33.5 curl = ???
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Post by: furbearer365 on October 16, 2012, 07:01:17 PM: Why oh why can i not draw a sheep tag?
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on October 21, 2012, 12:41:54 PM: Shooter for sure.... Look at the LxW on that sack!!!

Congrats on a great ram!!!!! :tup: