Vintage Hunting Gallery - Volume 11

1. The Skipper, Too

This photo appears in Robert Anderson’s book Great Rams III, but he admits he has no idea who is depicted here or what is happening. Anderson found the photo in an old trunk that belonged to the one and only Jack O’Connor. Even without context, it’s a killer photo!

2. World Famous Deadhead

Rene Paul "Frenchy" Lamoureux was a renowned Alaska guide and outfitter. This photo of Frenchy with a Dall’s ram deadhead was likely taken in the late 1950s or early ‘60s.

3. Smile, You're Hunting

In 1920, John Haggblad and his brother Nick were Alberta outfitters in the Luscar and Mountain Park areas during the 1920s and ‘30s. John is pictured here with a ram he killed in the White Horse Creek drainage. Photo courtesy of the Joe Babala Collection

4. Long Way From Home

Tony Oney (right) was an Alaskan on a mission to kill a desert bighorn in the Baja desert in 1968. Mission accomplished.

5. City Dump Sheep

Ethyl Hills (pictured) was hunting with friends in the fall of 1923 when Alberta outfitter Cam Matthews killed this massive bighorn. The horns were on display for years in Alberta’s Coalspur Hotel until one day, someone tossed them in the city dump. Sad, but true story.  Photo courtesy of the Joe Babala Collection

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6. A Ram With Style

Miguel Alessio Robles is framed by ocotillo as he holds a Baja ram he killed in the 1950s. Photo courtesy of Miguel Alessio Robles.

7. Over the Limit

This 1924 photo, taken in the Grapevine Mountains of Inyo County, California, shows William H. Alcorn (left) and California game warden E.H. Ober. William Hornaday hired the men to collect mountain sheep for a display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum. Photo courtesy of L. Victor Clark.

8. Dall's for Days

Art Johns (left) guided for his father, the famous Yukon outfitter and guide Johnnie Johns. Client Terry Stone seems happy with his ram.

9. Plaid for the Win

With the sixth-largest Stone’s sheep in the records, Joseph Shirk traveled to Prophet River, British Columbia, from Peru, Indiana, to hunt big Stone’s. We’d say the trip was worth it.

10. The Marlboro Ram

Back in the fall of ‘72, Dale Leonard went hunting in the San Borja Mountains of Baja. On the third day of his hunt, he killed this great desert ram with a .270.