Mrs PleaseDear's Ram Hunt

PleaseDear · Oct 30, 2007

We are heading out for my Mrs Ram hunt over by Flaming Gorge on the Utah side.

Myself, the Mrs and Lisa/'Predator' are going to be on the mountain!

Wanted to hook-up with TripleK but hunting with 2 women is tough! add Jenn into the mix and I would have been way out numbered! ha

Maybe if we stumble and bumble enough we might just get her a Ram!

Nov. 1 thru Nov. 30 are the hunt dates.

Robb

Extex · Oct 31, 2007

Good Luck! Can I Go?

UThunting · Oct 31, 2007

PleaseDear

I have No question that your wife has one of the BEST guides for that unit out there with her!!!

Will you save me a steak I will trade for some moose or elk NO REALLY LOL

Good Luck and Good Times to you and your Wife

UThunting
Clynt L Citte
Willard Utah

huntin100 · Oct 31, 2007

Best of luck! It sounds fun. Remember lots of pictures. Greg

predator · Oct 31, 2007

Shhhh...Robb left today so he can't see this until we return.

He really didn't want Jenn to come with because he knows how evil I am, and I know how evil Jenn is, and he knows that if the two of us were in hunting camp together...WOOOO!!! WATCH OUT!!

I wish you could come, Triple, it would be a blast, I'm sure of it!

I think I'm as excited as Mrs. PleaseDear...it's my first time going on a sheep hunt!!

kilbuc · Oct 31, 2007

Pdeer, you right trying to hunt with 3 women would be pushing the envelope, and we would be scared for your safety. Best ofd luck for the Mrs., Kill the big one, bet you have a great time.

from the "Heartland of Wyoming"

Silentstalker · Oct 31, 2007

Good luck Robb, Good luck on the sheep hunt too! lol!
Hope you get a dandy! Pred, take some good pic's! I want to see the "hunt" since I can't be there! Be safe and have fun!

Chad

ktc · Oct 31, 2007

Good luck pd and harem! Show us a FULL CURL!

YukonDall · Oct 31, 2007

GOOD LUCK ROBB.......PICS WILL BE COOL....YD.

elknut · Oct 31, 2007

Can't wait to see the shots!

DonVathome · Nov 1, 2007

Good luck and please post lots of pics!

ELKOHOLIC · Nov 1, 2007

Good luck! Take lots of Pics.

predator · Nov 2, 2007

Hey everyone, I just heard from PleaseDear. At least with cell service I can sortof partake in the hunt from my painkiller-induced state!

They found 3 rams this morning, none were what they were looking for, but they thought to get a bit closer and see if a bigger ram was hanging with them. About halfway up, the wind switched on 'em and poof! No more sheep.

He said the weather is fine and everyone was having a good time.

I'm just gonna go curl up with my remote and cry now...more updates to come, I'm sure.

PRed

NMHUNTNUTT1 · Nov 2, 2007

thanks for the update Pred...hope they seal the deal....Can't wait to hear the story and see the pics...

predator · Nov 3, 2007

Day 2-

PleaseDear reports that they put a sneak on a fairly good ram, put the bipod down twice, decided they could do better twice, then had their stalk ruined by a road hunter with the same tag. He's livid and never thought that a road hunter would ever ruin a sheep hunt, but it did. The sheep heard the truck coming and took off!

PD said they hiked in for that exact reason and that the road is definitely not something he would ever take a jeep, let alone a truck upon. The road hunter didn't even see the herd of sheep at a guzzler that they blew out of there!

They are going to try a different area this evening and then head back tomorrow with plans to return late November...perhaps Predator can join them by then!

thepenquin · Nov 3, 2007

You've got to be chitting me. Possibly thee only other tag holder up there just cruising around for a ram? Oh brother. What's the odds? In Utard, I would say very good! Ha!

Hang in there sheepsters,you'll get it done.

Hey Pred,sending you a pm.

PleaseDear · Nov 4, 2007

WOW!! what a thrill.

Started off Nov 1st. with getting my buds mzzy elk tag filled and packed off the mountain and on ice in the cooler...back at the 'Villa' around 3pm having an ice cold Molson's...or two..

Nov-2 Lots of miles and country covered via boot leather and looked over thru the bino's and spotting scope.

Those guys in the truck didn't see the sheep at the guzzler so they had no clue that we had them in our sights. Kinda sad but they are okay guys. One had the tag--12 points and the other was his bud or bro? Nice guys anyways....those old 2-track roads are fit for a quad if anything!

I tryed to keep in contact with the tag holder on the other side of the Gorge..the other Ram unit up at the Gorge.. but had cell reception issue's up there... no big deal... we have our own tag to fill.

Lots of sheep, some good snow depth up above Spirit Lake in the big basin and a few Rams but nothing worth harvesting the opening 3-4 days of the season.... the Mrs really wants a Ram like Cal's Ram.... big deep sweeping horns....the Rams on 'this side of the Gorge' don't have those huge soccer ball sweeping horns.... but we can certainly enjoy more days on the mountain looking for what she wants to harvest.

Sorry about Predator and her injury....that sucks! We missed her on the mountain and around camp. Maybe by trip 3 if needed she will be gimped up enough to go with us..late November.

Geez do I go on my hunt in Wyoming for elk the end of this week thru the 12th of Nov. or do I take the Mrs on another sheep hunt try this week? Tough call...

Robb

nochawk · Nov 5, 2007

LAST EDITED ON Nov-05-07 AT 08:22AM (MST)[p]OIL tag for her so of course we are canceling out our WY elk and headed for the Gorge. If we were not so picky we would have filed tags our WY tags by now...LOL

predator · Nov 5, 2007

Holy cow, Nate, I liked ya a lot before, but you are truly a team player my friend!

nochawk · Nov 5, 2007

nochawk · Nov 5, 2007

Sombody has to help the SQUIDs out..pay back for all those naval personel who gave me rides all over the world, and donated there paychecks to me playing Spade's and poker while not on watch...

P.S. Nov 10th is the Marine Corps Birthday... so he will have to drink to the Marins Corps...a little added bonus to the trip.

rutnbuck · Nov 6, 2007

So what did ya decide? Are ya going this weekend? Good luck!! I suppose we will wait the outcome. Rutnbuck

PleaseDear · Nov 6, 2007

I sent predator some photo's to post but she is on bigtime pain killers so...... I sent some to YELUM but it came back undeliverable....

Robb

rutnbuck · Nov 6, 2007

Send them to me
i like your pics.

Rutnbuck

ForkWest · Nov 7, 2007

Oohhhh buddy, can't wait. Lets see em, even if there isn't horns in her hands yet.

YELUM · Nov 7, 2007

Robb
Send them again in a couple different emails. If the pics attached are bigger than 5 meg it blocks it at that addy.

Larry

nochawk · Nov 7, 2007

I got these off the BOWSITE, Robbs at work and Im sure that most of us can't wait to see the pics till he gets home, so here we go...

predator · Nov 7, 2007

Thanks Nate, they were too big for my email as well.

See, it's a good thing I didn't go along, cuz I might've just encouraged her to shoot that dang ram....blow it up and he looks pretty darn good to me!

But then everything looks good on Lortab.

Blank · Nov 7, 2007

Using anything that starts with LOR-, VI-, DEM-, or PERC- plays hell with all my security clearances, but boy howdy, it sure takes care of pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you'd just have 'em take it off and replace it with a shapely peg, you could have it be a multi-purpose camera tripod/rifle rest/Camelback/hollow survival kit/etc. Take care of the joint pain, and at the same time, wouldn't hurt your feet in high heels.

Hope you're feeling better.

PleaseDear · Nov 7, 2007

Thanks Nate!

Sorry Larry&Lisa---my bad....I'll downsize 'em next time..

Photo #1 is Sheep Creek Bay on Flaming Gorge. Some decent Rams but nothing really worth putting a stalk on....

Photo #2 is where we spotted some Rams and ewe's. The spotting scope had some heat wave issues as the morning wore on so we knew he was a good Ram so off we go all the way around the mountain and start from the bottom of the canyon..

Photo#3 is of the Ram the Mrs had her bipods down on but we held off as I really felt it was more in the 156-160 class. Sooo after just shy of 3 miles up and 1027ft elevation gain...we backed off and headed back down...

Photo #4 is the happy tag holder on a breather coming down...no way she wanted to go back the way we came up via those crags in the lower background...

I am somewhat comfortable with the possibility of her getting a 170-175 class Ram before the end of November.

We are not going back up for about 10 days...as I am heading up to Wyoming to fill my bull tag....I hope!

Try a little 'Crown' with your meds-Predator-.....plenty of giggles then! ha

Thanks again Nate for posting the photo's...

Robb

predator · Nov 8, 2007

Blank, you ain't kiddin'! I like the peg attachment/bipod/camera set ideer.

Robb!! Nochawk says that if I mix it with Crown, I'll stop breathing.

I dunno if yer tryin' to kill me or if he is wishing he was my nurse.....LOL

PleaseDear · Nov 8, 2007

It will be fine---missy.....

I notice--TripleK 'aint' even gonna put herself in 'harms way' on this Ram hunt! ha

Robb

nochawk · Nov 8, 2007

LAST EDITED ON Nov-08-07 AT 06:56PM (MST)[p]Well Pred... if I was your nurse you would be out running the confidence course at Pendleton...

Now be a good girl and do exactly what the good nurse tells you...

predator · Nov 8, 2007

Yessir!! Er, NOSIR!!

Aw hell, I dunno what I'm saying......

Silentstalker · Nov 10, 2007

Pred,

Sorry to hear about your Fall. That just plain sucks!

Robb,

Keep after that big ram. Sorry to hear they bumped those rams on ya. Her time will come just keep after it! Hope ya get yer elk too!

Chad

PleaseDear · Nov 15, 2007

Game On--heading back up with the little Mrs today for a few days to see if we can't fill her Ram tag.

I snuck off to Wyoming for a bull elk last wknd for 4 days and got skunked...but I think I am out of the dog-house now..hehe

Robb