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Day 3 crawl out of the tent, I hear a vehicle with a loud exhaust racing up the road, I think oh great, I’m late again. As the vehicle got closer to camp I realize its most likely not another hunter as they were moving at a high rate of speed and blasting their radio. They drive by and go another direction than the way I was planning on going so I was relieved. 20 mins goes by, they come racing down the road again, weird. Then about 10 mins later 2 quads are coming down the road, I thought these guys were hunters, they go the way the other vehicle went. A short time goes by, these 2 guys on quads come back down the road. I don’t know who’s taking joy rides in the desert at 5am besides tweekers. Lol The 3 of us head out and get to our glassing spot. Mike spots a ram down low but loses it. Amanda finds a “dead” ram bedded in the rocks, wasn’t really dead, just didn’t move for a long time. I found 3 rams bedded together way up high. We decide we need to get a closer look. We get ready to make the stalk up the ridge with minimal gear. Amanda would stay behind staying in contact via radio while Mike and I went to get a closer look. We make the hike, everything is perfect, we get to where we thought we could get a shot off but from down below we couldn’t see there was a dip we would have to cross in order to see the rams. We had turned off the radio when we got into closer range, so Amanda was trying to get us on the radio asking us what we were doing walking right in front of the sheep. Well we crossed the dip, crawled to another rock outcropping going unnoticed by the sheep. Mike gets the spotting scope setup, I pick the ram I want, I get back in the rifle and cant find the ram. The ram had walked behind a tree putting him out of sight, Mike saw it but I didn’t. I was starting to get nervous, saying “I cant find it, where did he go”? There were 3 rams together so I didn’t want to shoot the wrong ram, I am already dialed for 405yds , just need the ram to walk out. The ram finally walks out, turns broadside, I squeeze the trigger, clean miss over his back. I reload the ram runs a bit closer looking down at us not knowing what just happened. I have the ram in my scope, squeeze the trigger again, ram flops over, “DEAD RAM”! I shed a few tears, I couldn’t believe what just happened. Mike calls Amanda on radio tells her ram is dead and to come on up. We take pics, skin and qtr ram and head down the mtn. with heavy packs getting back to camp at dark. I had many beers that night along with a shot of homemade whiskey that Amanda had brought along, we cooked up a piece of backstrap that night. It was a fun journey shared with family and friends. I wasn’t guided but I had help from a few different outfitter friends like Jay Scott, Craig Steele, and Eric Hunt. I have never met any of these guys before only exchanged messages but they were willing to help out. I have to thank Mike a ton, he was there from the beginning. Amanda came up on short notice and was vital to my success that day. Sorry for the long read if you stuck it out, Thank you!

Dang how come I didnt find this a couple months ago.

This is what social media has done to hunting.

Well after looking over maps for the last couple months, My buddy and I headed to the unit to finally get to look at some sheep. We found a couple rams and looked over a lot of country. These sheep live in some rough stuff. Looking forward to more scouting trips.

Lol. almost done. Had it all done but was waaay too long

Congrats again, Nice ram!

ASU now ranked #5

Good price for a great spotter

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Beautiful ram! congrats to you and Jay

I killed my ram on sunday. I will do a write up and pics when I catch up at home. But heres a pic for now.

Bringing the cup back to Tempe. Ill post basketball current standings too before you Kitty fans say, wait till basketball

Big Herm?

Happy Birthday!

Baseball coach is doing terrible.

Why is that? I mean why such a poor job recruiting? Is it money? Scholarships? Or mostly nobody wants to play in AZ? Its AZ, your not going to get the top recruits.

Nice! Way to amke the most out of the leftover tags.

Stud coues! Congrats

I think i disagree with the firing. Graham actually had a winning record and was 4-2 against uofa.

I did after spending most of the day with the girls. Came home early to put lights up before I leave for my sheep hunt. Can only take so much of the inlaws anyway. LOL

Just curious if anybody has dealt with the warranty dept with Kuiu how it went and how long it took?

There is a 30% off code right now "Holiday30"

Some more pics from a recent scouting trip. 2 weeks away from hunt, feel like it came so fast.

Nicely done!