Spent the weekend on a ram hunt with a group from another forum. I sure was disappointed this time around with Thompson and the ranch itself. A group of 20+ had this weekend reserved for a WHILE now. To start, he doubled booked this past weekend with a group of about 16. He gave them the top of the mountain and all of us the bottom!!!
So me and my nephew decided to walk the draw starting at the A-frame, came up just above his house, then across the next 2 canyons, back to the bottom at the last stand next to the high dollar pasture and back to the trailer house, without seeing one ram. We glassed each and every hill side without a single sighting. After my nephew shot a no tag catalina in the high dollar pasture when they came out to eat a little hay, I went to the top that afternoon with my bow. Since I was the only one in the bow hunting section, I could move from stand to stand for a spot and stalk. That is how I took a big rambo about 3 yrs ago. But didn't see nadda. Even the stands (if you call it that) were terrible. He baited stand 5. All there was for stands were 2 outdoor chairs stuck under a live oak tree. One chair had no back and the chair that did have a back had only 3 legs. So I wonder down to the next one. Just one rusted up metal chair out in the wide open. So I go where I shot my very first ram. A box blind big enough for 2, cause my wife had sat with me back then and shot video of it. Well, that blind wasn't even there. Only a metal frame of some sort, with a couple of boards laid across it. The next and last stand I walked to, well, never found a stand there, not even a chair. This was my 4th trip out there and we always saw rams EVERYWHERE, but not this time. And what little we did see were either blue or red tag and those weren't impressive. Hope none of yall have a hunt planned in the near future. Be a long time before I go back, if I go back!!!
So me and my nephew decided to walk the draw starting at the A-frame, came up just above his house, then across the next 2 canyons, back to the bottom at the last stand next to the high dollar pasture and back to the trailer house, without seeing one ram. We glassed each and every hill side without a single sighting. After my nephew shot a no tag catalina in the high dollar pasture when they came out to eat a little hay, I went to the top that afternoon with my bow. Since I was the only one in the bow hunting section, I could move from stand to stand for a spot and stalk. That is how I took a big rambo about 3 yrs ago. But didn't see nadda. Even the stands (if you call it that) were terrible. He baited stand 5. All there was for stands were 2 outdoor chairs stuck under a live oak tree. One chair had no back and the chair that did have a back had only 3 legs. So I wonder down to the next one. Just one rusted up metal chair out in the wide open. So I go where I shot my very first ram. A box blind big enough for 2, cause my wife had sat with me back then and shot video of it. Well, that blind wasn't even there. Only a metal frame of some sort, with a couple of boards laid across it. The next and last stand I walked to, well, never found a stand there, not even a chair. This was my 4th trip out there and we always saw rams EVERYWHERE, but not this time. And what little we did see were either blue or red tag and those weren't impressive. Hope none of yall have a hunt planned in the near future. Be a long time before I go back, if I go back!!!
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