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Originally Posted by sheephunter
According to Geist's study...72% make it to 8 in a non hunted population....no real shock there. Lead poising is a much higher cause of mortality in legal rams in a hunted population.
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"THANK YOU" that is exactly what I have been saying the whole time. If we had an age restriction of some sort that was fesable we could have a more mature bunch of sheep and no extended wait periods or draws. There would be a couple years that the harvest may be lower as the younger rams that would have been shot at 5 1/2 reach that age but from there the harvest stats would more than likely level out to what they were previous.