Drawing a bighorn sheep hunting tag in Wyoming is an exercise in extreme patience; Nick Siddle of Sheridan waited 45 years to draw his.

It was a tag worth waiting for, in a hunt area centered around the Moss Ranch near Lovell.

It’s the home of rams with a weird horn mutation, which causes one horn to grow more rapidly than the other. In some cases, the odd horn curls all the way back up and practically covers the ram’s eye.

When he set out on his hunt, in late August of 2024, Siddle wasn’t necessarily seeking one of the weird-horned rams.

He had his mind set on a ram big enough to make the record books for the Boone and Crockett Club (B&C), which is considered the gold standard for hunting trophies.

Justin Lucht has observed bighorn sheep on the Moss Ranch for 15 years, and previously

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