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Originally Posted by muleskinner
I agree that we need to find out why the ram population is dropping below the acceptable number,but does that mean we should just keep hunting the falling population at the same rate.The number of rams harvested by hunters adds up with any other reasons for falling numbers.Just because we may not be the main cause of the problem should we just keep going the way we are till there is none?
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Who said the ram population is dropping? and they are still killing roughly the same number of sheep every year. And where are they getting that horn size is decreasing over the years, this would be pretty hard to determine as pre 1984 there were no sheep registrations. I know guys that shot rams in the 70's and these sheep all averaged 6.5 to 7.5 yrs. in age and scored anywhere from the 150's to 170's, and today with the registration there are still a lot of rams being killed in that same range. So once again where is the problem!!!!