Pilots in Alaska see a lot of crazy things, especially at low tide.

“The idea that somehow these sheep are any less valuable or deserving than a hunter-taken ram is simply not true.” To read more about this special place, check out this article.Įven though these rams aren’t hunted, they are still eligible for the records.“Regarding the trophies being ineligible due to the lack of hunting pressure, the records were never intended to serve as a competition among hunters or to list only hunter-taken game,” wrote Justin Spring, director of Big Game Records, in Great Rams IV. Today, the island is a state park and managed as a primitive recreation area.

At a time when sheep populations around the West were declining, the island’s sheep population was doing so well that fifty-four sheep were relocated off the island to supplement fledgling populations. More sheep were unloaded by landowners in 1947. In 1939, more sheep were introduced, and they survived. The first sheep introductions took place in 1917 without success. Over the years, various owners tried to get a bighorn sheep herd to take root. Over the past century, ownership of the island changed numerous times. And the conservation success story of this island is just as interesting as that ram’s massive curls. Found in 2016, the nine-year-old ram that became the new world’s record was well-photographed and known to many. Rams here are allowed to grow old and die of natural causes because hunting isn’t allowed. It should be called Did You See the Horns on That Ram State Park. The place is called Wild Horse Island State Park, which is surrounded by the waters of western Montana’s Flathead Lake. Here’s a fun fact: The number two non-typical whitetail is a pick up from Ohio. It was measured and dubbed the biggest and baddest whitetail of all time.

The head was forgotten until the next year when the warden took it to the taxidermist who knew at first glance what he was holding. The deer weighed roughly 250 pounds and was 5-½ years old. He contacted Helland who then got permission to retrieve the carcass. On Beckman’s drive home, he spotted a dead buck on private property, just inside a fence. Even more intriguing is that its carcass was found randomly along a road just inside a fence by David Beckman in 1981.īeckman had killed a deer during the state’s hunting season, and he was meeting with conservation agent Micheal Helland to officially check it. No one knows how it died, but this Medusa-like whitetail’s rack weighs more than eleven pounds. Owner: Missouri Department of Conservation

This May Sound Crazy by Piper Scott