There was no more activity on the cams and I wasn't seeing sheep, so I started moving to other areas for weeks 4 and 5. All I was finding was young rams and ewes. I ran onto 2 guides that were scouting for their hunter the next week at a guzzler. I decided to move to a different area that I saw some rams before season and not interfere with their hunt. Of course, they showed up with their hunter in the new area I was hunting. Their hunter filled his tag that week. They showed me pics of a ram they were looking for and they were available so I hired them to guide me non-outfitted. We met up for week 7 and hunting with those guys was a real eye-opener for me. They found the ram we were looking for on day 1 and put him to bed. We went after him the next day and got to 500 yards. He was facing away and just blew out. He must have winded us. The next day, we setup where he was the previous evening and he showed up just as we hoped. He got to 200 yards and the wind shifted. He blew out again!
The next day, we went into where we thought he might have gone again. We didn't find him, but found 3 nice rams at about 2 miles. We went down the ridge, hiked the flat for 2 miles and climbed a ridge next to the sheep. We got to 290 yards, they finally settled down and fed. I took a shot and all 3 took off. I thought I missed, but he went down within a few seconds.
The Cady Mountains are beautiful and the sheep are amazing. I'm really happy with the ram I shot. The whole experience was epic for sure.
Here's some cool pics from one of the drinkers.




