The two headed sheep

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I used to do quite a bit of hunting in the mountains and foothills for Elk, Bear, etc etc. Over the years I saw hundreds and hundreds of sheep and goats and bears etc etc etc. Now I'm not a sheep hunter,(though I have taken one on occasion) so I usually don't pay much attention to them.

However, one day I am on a low slope and see the strangest sheep I had ever seen. It had two heads !!!!! Quickly I grabbed my binoculars and there was the two headed sheep. I quickly pulled out the camera and zoomed as far as I could, which make the pic a bit blurry. Let me tell you, without the binoculars, I had no idea what the hell was going on or what I was looking at with this two headed sheep. Binoculars and this pic show the story.

The ridge I was on in the right

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The sheep

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Sadly for me, I had about 7 or 8 hundred pictures of Trophy Rams, mountain goats, Elk, Grizzlies, Rainbow, Char, Bull Trout, mountain excursions, River Excursions etc. I had these when I got my first digital camera. At the time I not smart enough to discover something like photobucket, nor had them printed. They sat on my hard drive. One day my computer stank like burnig plastic and never worked again. I brought it in and they said the motherboard was fried and that whatever was on the computer was destroyed.
Lesson learned. I print at least a quarter of all my pics now and upload most of them to photobucket just in case.

I still have burnt computers hard drive and hope maybe some tech geek will tell me he can get the pics off it, but so far all have said that the files aren't retreivable.

This happened the fall before last, and I also lost all our wedding pics (not professional ones) that were taken with our camera at the stag, the pre wedding party, the reception, 4x4ing my last morning waking as a single guy,....

I think I do have some old 35 mm pics that I can scan

I have only taken 2 sheep and thought they tasted awful. I am pretty sure i have those pics packed away here or in Newfoundland and will scan them or get them scanned.

I have some elk and deer and bear pics that will surprise you. One is less than 15 yrds from a Blackbear and her cubs, vertically!!! They are all up the tree I am at the bottom.
 
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chuck nelson said:
SH, do you have any pictures of the rams you've taken? Thanks.
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The one in my avatar is from this year......I'd have to dig around for the others. Nothing too impressive......176 is my biggest bighorn and I took an 11 year old Stone that I've never taped. Thought this was my year for Dalls but I came home empty handed. Only killed four rams total but have passed up loads over the years and been there for a pile of others either lending moral support or running a camera.

Found this one of my muzzleloader ram from 4 years ago....
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Here's the one bouhuntress killed last year....
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Here's one I hunter hosted for my buddy Paul last year.....
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Ran the camera for my buddy Omega on this one two years ago.....
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I just like to be there for the hunt......pulling the trigger is really secondary....sheep really seem to get in some people's blood and others never get bitten.
 
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I have only taken 2 sheep and thought they tasted awful.
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What kind of sheep....how big....what time of year? I've tasted a couple nasty bighorns during the rut but other than that all that I've eaten has been top notch.
 
Trophy big horn sheep mid september. I have eaten sheep before and am pretty used to the taste. These tasted similar, but much stronger, muskier,.... you could smell it cooking throughout the house. It may also have been something to do with how we butchered it, or how we cooked it,... we were not sheep hunters by any means, and certainly not overly familiar with the meat.

We weren't sure if w shoud let it age or not, then we found a prep recipe that said to put a rub on it (it was awful), many factors I suppose...perhaps more us than the sheep.

I have always had luck with seeing game, for the most part. Numerous times we sat at 200 yrds watching a full curl scuffing at spots of vegetation on a slope.

At least 10 times I have been within 100yrds of mountain goats looking down at them.
 
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