Big Horn !!install!! | Jacques Palais

Veteran taxidermists who have examined photographs note the "double brooming"—the chipping and blunting of the horn tips—suggests the ram was over 14 years old. In the unforgiving Altai, where wolves and winter kill most rams by age 10, this was a Methuselah.

It is possible that "Big Horn" was the show name of a horse Palais rode or trained to prominence. jacques palais big horn

Jacques Palais did not take the horns. He did not cut the meat. Instead, he used his last cartridge to fire a single shot into the cave’s ceiling, marking the spot for no one but himself. Then he walked back down the mountain in the eye of the storm, naked to the waist—his coat draped over the ram’s body. Veteran taxidermists who have examined photographs note the