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critter getter · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:29 am Post subject: my aoudad

Here's my aoudad i shot at the ranch out in Fort Davis last year. I had it mounted by Troy at Shur's Taxidermy on Rodd field RD. I have been trying to get a good aoudad for a long time around 15years. But never could make it happen for one reason are another. But i knew after we got the ranch out west with a good size herd on it. it was going to be just a matter of time being i could go hunt them any time i wanted and not cost me any thing. I could have killed a 100 of them up close r in a high fence but that's not my thing. I want to shoot mine over 500 yards i preferred it to be over a 1000 yards just didn't happen. So i started to hunt them soon as we got the ranch 4 years ago. The ranch is 30,000ac of prime aoudad country. It turned out that Me and an aoudad coming together just wasn't going to be an ease deal just like the year before something just always happened on every trip. I made 10 trips out to the ranch trying to close the deal. Finally last Nov it came together. We hunted them for 4 days and after about 5-6 tries the night before i headed home we spotted them up on a mountain side at 850Yard. i was able to get out and set up for the shot. I guess my wind call was off a little as i thought the wind was a full value wind coming at 90* to me but it wasn't it was blowing up the mountain just enough to pick my bullet up. as i broke the shot i see him jump up shaking his head and walk over the top of the mountain. My friend said that i had shot right over his front shoulder. I could not believe i had blew the shot. At home that just don't happen very much. I shoot long range all the time. but out there shooting in new country up/down hills and wind blowing up/down hills kicks my butt trying to read it. We knew where they where headed so we hauled but around the mountain and had to walk in 1.5miles when we got around the mountain there they where eating just over the top and the two big rams where in front one eating and the other was bedded down. After glassing them for 5-10 min i told my friend that i was going for the one bedded down cause if i had hit the other one any where it would be the one bedded down. So i ranged them they where at 565 yards straight across a valley. i doped the scope and set up for the shot at the brake of the trigger i saw his head just fall back. My 338cal 300gr Berger bullet had found its mark and he never moved. by the time we got back to the truck it was already dark we had to drive 3 mile one way to get the mule to try and get up close to the mountain to get him so after years of it not working out and 2 long hard hours of mountain climbing. i finally got to put my hands on a very long coming and hard trophy to get. he measured 30 1/4" and 29 3/4" being i broke the tip off comeing down the mountain he came in at a total of 104 2/8 putting him in the rocord book as a broze metal ram.

O and come to find out on the first shot at 850 yards the wind had pick up my bullet just enough to hit him right in the middle of his right horn so i have a nice 338 cal bullet hole though the right horn. no wonder he was shaking his head. Its so hard to read the wind out there when i'm use to shoot mostly on south Texas flat land

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 8392

Nice story, Jeff and cool mount!
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Prof. Salt · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:03 am Post subject:

Nice Audad, and good for you doing it the hard way! I came close near Sonora but couldn't connect with a big ram. They are tough, can go anywhere, shrug off bullets, and disappear while in plain sight.

BigPig069 · Horse Mullet Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 167

Nice!!!!!!

SharkBait · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject:

big audad...

i have killed a few, i shot one with a 660 grain slug out of a 50caliber muzzle loader, never found it, two months later i see the same big audad in a group i shoot it again...when i inspected it..i found one of its lungs had collapsed, it had shrugged it off with only weight loss and some puss to show for it...
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rawlbay · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:45 am Post subject:

Awesome. Good looking critter and interesting story. How did that Berger perform at that distance, in terms of penetration, retention, expansion, etc?

Stump · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:26 am Post subject:

Nice sheep! Those are some tough animals to hunt and kill. Did ask for the taxidermist to darken the horns like that?
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riofrio · Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 3:32 pm Post subject:

Great story and hunt.
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