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Originally Posted by Tundra Monkey
Hey Pod....just me being a smart azz.
If you do a search in the hunting section (what a hunt) you will find the thread about a forum member that killed a 200+" ram this season......the Wildlife Officers officially aged it at 7yrs old 
By using the suspension system noted above.....the guy would be banned from hunting big horns for 3 years for shooting a 200+" ram.
Maybe he should have just marked it and waited 3 more years to pull the trigger 
They are tough to judge in the field.....they must be just as tough to judge on the table
No way in HEdblhockeysticks was he a 7yr old......well for sure he was at one time I guess 
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It is interesting but a lot of the truly monster rams aren't that old. There have been several book rams out of Montana that were only 5 years old. It seems some of the really big rams have a fairly short life span...9-10 years but they really put a lot into horn growth in that period. On the other hand, most very old rams don't grow monsterous horns. Obviously there are exceptions in both cases but age and B&C score don't correlate like many people think.