Pending WR Bighorn
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From: Bigdan
19-Dec-17
Today I stopped by the F&G Region one office today and they have three rams that they picked up off Wild horse Island in Flathead Lake one scores 205 another 209 And one scores 214 all three will have to be panel scored but the 214 has been scored by two B&C measurers all three will be in the top 10 . 214 is the one on the far right
From: Nick Muche
19-Dec-17
Dead heads.
Incredible specimens for sure!
From: Bigdan
19-Dec-17
Winter kills I think there were most of the sheep in montana came from if you ever watched Wild Kingdom a show was made there catching sheep to transplant
From: kota-man
19-Dec-17
amazing...
From: Rob in VT
19-Dec-17
Wow!
From: HUNT MAN
19-Dec-17
Wild horse island is a special place. You should see the mule deer that live there. Hunt
From: Michael
19-Dec-17
Wow!
I really need to get out there and photograph some big horns. I will never be able draw a tag anywhere so I might as well hunt them with a camera.
From: Horseshoe
19-Dec-17
My family and I went out to Wild Horse Island this summer. I don't know much about scoring sheep, but we saw several huge rams!
From: Mark Watkins
19-Dec-17
GIANTS!!!
Mark
From: Charlie Rehor
19-Dec-17
B&C accepts “pick-ups” in their Record book!
From: The last savage
19-Dec-17
Jeeze I'd love to simply touch and hold any one of those....wish we could have seen them on the hoof....
From: Bowboy
19-Dec-17
Holy Molly those are some studs.
From: Bigdan
19-Dec-17
They have photos of all three alive I saw one photo of the 205 and the 209 standing next to each other
From: DL
19-Dec-17
Holy Crap!!! Those are all amazing. Nice to know that big boys are out there still making babies.
From: NvaGvUp
19-Dec-17
That must not be a hunt unit, because if it were MT FWP could raise north of $500,000 from the auction,
That would be an incredible amount of money that could then be used to manage BHS and add a lot more sheep tags to the draw for the average Joe.
From: midwest
19-Dec-17
Good Lord, those don't even look real!
From: bighornram
19-Dec-17
just one of several groups.
just one of several groups.
I visited Wildhorse island during a tour we took while attending The WSF Chapter and Affiliate meeting this summer. The sheep photo opps were amazing. This would be an incredible place to visit during the rut. The G&F brought the 205 and the 209 heads in the pics to our meeting. We got to handle and drool on them for a short time. They are incredibly heavy and amazingly huge. I may have took a pic of the 214 while on the tour. I will try to find a good one and post it. The idea was tossed around to market these heads or replicas of them by WSF and return the money to MT Parks. What do you think they could bring in Reno to support the MT. Parks? Did not see any deer but was told they are incredible also. Wonder what happens to all these pickup heads from the past years? I would like to see them used to support the resource instead of rotting in some storage building somewhere. The island is an easy 15 min boat ride and not very physically challenging terrain.
From: Chief
19-Dec-17
I'd like to see the score sheet. what were the bases and circumference?
From: Bigdan
19-Dec-17
They auction them off along with the road killed rams about every five years none of theses three will be sold
From: Huntcell
19-Dec-17
Huntcell 's Link
Link about island
From: Huntcell
19-Dec-17
Huntcell 's Link
Bighorn nursery! Story on relocating sheep off the island!
From: Stekewood
19-Dec-17
Incredible....
From: Bigdan
19-Dec-17
The present WR is a road kill I wish a hunter would have shot the new record The F&G take sheep off the island every few years you can see there are good genetic's in the sheep heard there
From: wkochevar
19-Dec-17
Any word on the ages of these rams?
From: BULELK1
20-Dec-17
Unbelievable!
That mass is just crazy
Thanks for sharing B-dan
Good luck, Robb
From: Mad Trapper
20-Dec-17
Wow! I was starting to worry about Dan. Glad to see yer still kicking!
From: Grubby
20-Dec-17
If that was in Minnesota they would bring in some wolves!
I’d like to visit there!
From: njbuck
20-Dec-17
Wow, some incredible rams.
From: SmokedTrout
20-Dec-17
SmokedTrout's Link
Amazing rams from an amazing island. I remember this sad story about 8 of them getting killed by lightning a few years back. http://flatheadbeacon.com/2010/08/10/eight-bighorn-sheep-killed-in-lightning-strike-on-wild-horse-island/
From: wild1
20-Dec-17
Incredible mass.
From: OFFHNTN
20-Dec-17
Geezez...........
From: DL
20-Dec-17
A ram was officially scored at 208 2/8” from Montana today. A young fella named Justin.
From: Highplainsdrifter
20-Dec-17
I heard this was from north side and green scored 208”
From: Highplainsdrifter
20-Dec-17
Day before
From: Bill Obeid
20-Dec-17
Look at that ram!! Dang, if that ain’t the most beautiful trophy in North America!!!
From: Bill Obeid
20-Dec-17
Ahh, most beautiful “ animal “ in North America. I saw on another thread we should eliminate trophy from our vernacular if we want to appeal to the non hunting public.
From: DL
20-Dec-17
That’s the one. Not only beautiful they are the best eating animal you’ll ever eat. Doesn’t not taste like a sheep. Moose is supposed to be the best but I’ve had moose and I will take a wild ram. So mild.
From: buzz mc
20-Dec-17
Huge rams. I wonder what one of those euro mounts weighs?
From: DL
21-Dec-17
I bet close to 40 pounds or more. There was a desert ram in the high 180s that weighed 32 pounds.
From: writer
23-Dec-17
The 214” ram, alive
From: Bigdan
23-Dec-17
he is a hog
From: Kurt
23-Dec-17
Amazing rams! Makes me want to visit Wildhorse Island! Big Dan, thanks for posting.
From: jims
23-Dec-17
Probably a stupid question but couldn't the sheep head off the island when the lake freezes? I imagine they are healthy and free of disease if isolated on the island? Pretty cool stuff!
From: hunt'n addict
23-Dec-17
Thanks Dan. We came by it this summer. Looks like we should have taken the boat ride after all.
From: wkochevar
08-Jan-18
That 214 was 12 years old? does anyone know?
From: Glunker
08-Jan-18
Someone mentioned winter kill. Nobody is monitering? I understand pneumonia but i hope you are not talking starvation.
From: DL
27-Jan-18
Here’s a good picture of him.
From: Trial153
27-Jan-18
these things give me Tachycardia.
From: Bigdan
08-Feb-18
Here is the score sheet
From: wkochevar
08-Feb-18
Incredible ram!!
From: Bigdan
09-Feb-18
yes he is a pig
From: wkochevar
09-Feb-18
I saw where they weighed the skull and horns and they topped out right at 50 lbs.!! That included the strap, so 48-49 total weight. That's one load out right there!
From: sticksender
09-Feb-18
Wow, both horns over 4 feet long. Amazing.
From: Dogman
12-Feb-18
So it died fall of 2016 and it takes them over a year to make this public? How does a ram of this caliber get stuffed in a closet or under a desk and not get talked about by FWP for that length of time? They had to know immediately it wasn’t going to go in the pile to sell at auction.
