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Not proud of it, but here it is. 20+ years ago, in October, I was hunting Dall Sheep in the Yukon Territory. The first morning out of spike camp my guide and I climbed a mountain about an hour ride away and after reaching a rocky outcrop spotted a herd of 5 rams bedded down next to a small stream. The rams were about 350 yards away, and the guide suggested we wait until they get up, and hope they move closer. This was around 10 AM. By 2:30 they still hadn't moved, and I was really starting to get cold, and told my guide that I had to take a walk around the side of the mountain to warm up. About 15 minutes later, I heard my guide coming up behind me, and he told me the sheep were up and walking, but they were walking away from our position on the outcrop. We hurried back to the outcrop, and the biggest ram was walking slowly away from us, but on the same level. My guide told me to wait until he turned, rather than take an ass on shot. After a while, the ram turned perfectly broadside. I asked how far he was, and my guide said he thought around 400 yards, maybe more. I was shooting a 7MM Remington Magnum, with 160 grain Nosler Partitions at 2980 fps, sighted 2 inches high at 100 yards. I held the cross hairs on the top of the back line, in line with the right front leg. At the shot, the ram went down, and we then heard the sound of a hit. Immediately, the ram was back up, still perfectly broadside. There was no blood visible on the body. Using the exact same hold, I fired again. The ram went down again, we heard the bullet impact, but the ram got back up, but now it was quartering away at a hard angle. We still couldn't see any blood to indicate where it was hit. I fired again, still holding on the top of the back line, but this time in line with the right rear leg. At the shot, the ram went down, we heard another hit, and the ram tumbled end over end down the mountain, and ended up in the stream at the bottom. After hiking down to the ram, it was still alive, and needed a finishing shot. After pulling the 38", 13 year old ram out of the water, we found that my first 3 shots had shot off 3 legs at the knees, and I never had a bullet hit the main body. The first shot broke the right front leg, the second broke the left front, and the third the right rear. I have no idea how far the shots actually were, but to have that kind of bullet drop, with that load, it had to be almost 2 zip codes away.

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