Hi gang,
Here's a pic of my first (hopefully not last) Big Island ram. He's a nice Mouflon X Feral hybrid with big bases and good mass. .
There was a small group; three ewes, one lamb and a young half-curl ram. They fed off to the right, headed south. heard other sheep to the north, a bit. My friend told me there was a big ram in the bunch sounding off. After a quick look through the trees, there was what looked like a nice ram in the group. We moved kinda fast to get directly downhill and down wind of them and waited. We set up, and only had to wait a little until the ewes came into sight and worked their way directly towards us.
We were just behind the crest of a small rise, and one ewe came within 10-12 yds from us. If she kept coming, she'd have busted us for sure. Then this guy popped into view, 25yds to the left. He wasn"™t the one we had heard, but he was nice. With his head behind a tree, I put the crosshairs on the back of his shoulder, just above the elbow, breathed out and squeezed. He reared up, spun and dropped into a pocket out of sight. He only went about 15yds. (The picture is from my camera phone. I forgot my digital camera in truck)
I was shooting a Mossberg 100ATR in .270. The bullet was a 130gr Fed. Fusion.
Big Island hybrid ram
