Hey guys my buddy and i managed to take a ram here in alberta on opening day here is his story copied from another site.

-Brett

The hunt all started tuesday with Brett (Duckn8r), Al, and myself excitiedly running around gathering gear and adding the pounds to our packs. Finally finishing packing tuesday evening we hit the hay anticipating what the week would bring. Wednesday came with us rising early and heading off to our sheep spot. ariving around 8ish at what we thought at the time to be the trail head we shouldered our packs and headed in about 30 min into the hike we figured we were on the wrong trail and decided to do some bush whacking to get to the proper trail, well after a 3 1/2 hour detour or as Al called it unadvertent scouting we were back on the right trail, a couple hours into the hike on the right trail during one of our to frequent 15 minute water breaks, there was a "rock" up the mountain that was bugging me the whole break, just before we decided to mmove on i took the binocs out of the pack and sure enough it was a sheep, then quickly out came the Swarovski spotting scopes and we determined there were 6 rams in the chute and we figured one was for sure legal and another might be. So after looking them over for a bit we decided we would keep going as we were still an hour and a half from water and come back and pick them up in the AM, after bumping into some fellow hunters and rethinking about the location of the rams we decided the walk for water was worth the trade off of sleeping on the rams. That night was spend setting up camp and convincinig other hunters that we were dumb and didnt know where sheep are as no one had seen sheep in that area for 30 years. The night was ended with a Wiser night cap then off to bed.

The next day found me cutting wood and cooking and doing a little scouting, Al doing a scouting death march around the mountian and Brett getting water and doing a little scouting figuring the sheep had crossed the valley, but to no avail we couldnt find the sheep. Midday we had some potatoes (too heavy to pack in again) and KD for lunch then in the afternoon had a nap. Around 6 o clock we decided we better get off our asses and look for them again so we walked to where we had a good view of the mountain and didnt see them, then Al pushed we go a little further down the trail to where we first saw them we got out the spotting scopes and binos and were looking up the mountain when I glanced to my left and saw the sheep 200 yards away om the river bottom, well we bumped them a bit and they walked into the timber and up the mountain. we watched all escapes off the face especially the one that lead them to the park, but put them to bed a ways from the park.

Opening morning Al was up at the crack of dawn spotting but me and brett were a little groggy from a midnight visit from a couple local cowboys out hunting and the whiskey bottle, regardless of that Brett made a clutch spot in the morning and we made our play. heading up two chutes over from the rams we got to the top cutting off the route to the park where we figured they were going. after not seeing them we humped over the next chute to find it sheepless, then slowly crept over the ledge to where Brett spotted them in the morning he was about 20 feet ahead of me and quickly stopped and dropped motioning for me to do the same. the rams were about 70 yards away milling around, by the time we got the binos out to confirm again he wasnt short and which one he was they moved behind the only 5 trees on the mountain and bedded down behind one of the smaller rams. Brett and I closed the distance with Al watching from the bottom. At a distance of about 45 yards Brett and I waited for the sheep to stand up and move getting ourselves into perfect shooting position as I one the high card draw it was my shot. After over 2 hours of being that close to the sheep (which was pretty awesome in itself) the big boy finally decided to stand up and as soon as he did he went back down rolling down the mountain dead as a can be. Then the real work start caping and deboning, unfortunatly we forgot our camera so dont have any kill pictures. After Al came up to help us pack him down we got him to camp and headed off for some water. Later the evening the CO's visited our camp and did what they do. The rest of the night was spent celebrating with as much copenhagen and Rye as we could handle (only so we didnt have to pack it out ) the next morning we woke and packed up and out the right trail which was about 4 hours shorter with an extra 40 pounds each.

Brett scored the Ram at 163 and had 15 inch bases which isnt important to me but thought other ppl might wanna know.
Sorry about long thread just really pumped about our first ram.

Id like to say Big thanks to Brett and Al as they made it a awesome hunt and I appreciate them packing out the ram and helping find it. I owe them both a couple days of packing sheep around.

Chris

heres brett with the ram well get some better pics later.

Great hunting story nice ram congrads for you guys sounds like a hell of a hunting-drinking trip

Bloody heck! People have got rams down and I'm still working in the basement, watching the snow on the peaks and feeling the fall chill in the air!! Oh, I'm jealous!!!

But well-done! Congrats on a nice ram!

Frans

That's a dandy ram !! Conglads---nothing compares to sheep hunting----It's an addiction & the only cure is advancing age. CB