Dream Rams Books

ay back in 1969, this ram was taken by Bob Landis. A beauty of a ram. You may remember this photo from one of the photo galleries in “Dream Rams of British Columbia”. It had a score of 181 6/8 B&C points and because of the exact location it was taken, it was classified as a Stone sheep. The horn length was 47 3/8 by 47 5/8 and had bases of 14 6/8 and 14 4/8. A true monster. Last year, the Wildlife Records Club of BC, in keeping with their newly adopted Thin-Horned Sheep boundaries, based on a newly released comprehensive genetic study, now recognizes this ram as a Dall sheep. So this Bob Landis ram is now the new #1 Dall sheep to come out of the province of British Columbia.

Taken by Bob Landis, west of Atlin Lake, this tremendous ram was originally measured by an Official Boone and Crockett measurer as a “White” sheep. It was also listed in the Wildlife Records Clubs’ 1st trophy competition in 1969-70 as the #1 Dall Sheep. It was not until sometime later that the Club adopted new Thinhorn Sheep boundaries based on coat colour alone that the ram, although white in colour, was moved to the Club’s Stone sheep category based on the location of harvest. Boone and Crockett followed their lead and transferred the ram to the Stone sheep category. This was in 2005. The Club has notified B&C of this most recent transfer back to the Dall sheep category and its status as the New Provincial Dall sheep record.

n the Summer 2022 issue of Wild Sheep Forever there was as story written by me, Bill Pastorek, titled “Legends of the Fall”. This story was taken from the sheep hunting book “Dream Rams of British Columbia”. Imagine my surprise when I came across two new, unpublished photos of this ram. This unpublished image (on the right) truly shows the massive size of this Spences Bridge monster.