Not sure. He died when I was very young. He was a pet on our farm. My grandfather liked him enough he mounted him. He passed in 2001 but today I was given the mount.
That's a Bighorn and an amazing one! It could be a Dall, but I'm 99% a bighorn. That is a treasured mount that no one in this country could get a tag for in a hundred years.
In 1941, biologists described Montana’s bighorn sheep population as endangered—decades before the Endangered Species Act. Today, the state has huntable populations and the biggest rams in the world.