2020 Proving Ground // Utah Bighorn with Joel Maxfield

Mathews first hired employee, Joel Maxfield, takes his VXR 31.5 prototype on his quest to finish his super slam on a hunt for Bighorn Sheep in Utah.
See the 2020 VXR and the rest of the 2020 Proving Ground stories at mathewsinc.com

[@calibowhunter1998]

I always wish these were longer

[@jasdtaylor]

YAY FINALLY SOME MORE PROVING GROUND VIDEOS 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@GOHUNT]

Great film!!

[@DiamondZOutdoors]

Great film, crazy seeing sheep brown in the flats like that, ours are always way up in the timber in the steepest nastiest country you can find. Congratulations on a beautiful ram.

[@DialedinHunter]

Yes! Way to make it happen. Congrats on a beautiful ram!

[@trevorstewart9005]

Nice work Joel and Fossman! Great Ram.

[@CalledCollectiveMedia]

Nice work team Mathews!! Way to get after it

[@DavidGonzalez-ek3zh]

Nice work. That was awesome. Congrats! Real hunting.

[@thechaseproductions50]

Great film. Congrats on a stud ram

[@thestalkarcheryarrows]

Congrats!

[@volticarcher140]

Great job

[@swervysignals3620]

Beautiful

[@danielbeaudoin6799]

Why is that transmitter the sheep has..... and what do you do with after the kill? And congrats by the way!!!!

[@wk9953]

It is for conservation and herd tracking/health. They have numbers or addresses to call/turn them into to

[@PP-nr4xj]

yea why is no one talking about that collar

[@TheJaredolsen]

Daniel Beaudoin you just call whoever put it on probably fish and game or maybe some other organization and tell them you shot the ram and they will say okay thanks will you please send us the transmitter

[@braydonsmedley5652]

The wildlife biologists use the transmitters to perform studies on the sheep and to monitor the health of the herd

[@kylkock7399]

Awesome

[@devonstewart9469]

Great stuff guys! What did he end up aging at?

[@HookandArrow]

Gives me hope!!! I want a sheep so bad..

[@jaredmoon1587]

First, congratulations I am legitimately happy for this guy. However, as a person who has NEVER hunted sheep, if I am ever fortunate enough to draw a tag for one, should I expect to be able to walk upright directly at one to a point where I get a shot at 50 yards? That was the craziest part to me, and I am actually curious how that worked out. Not being an ass...just amazed haha.

[@davemowles3356]

You realistically can't shoot beyond 60 yards (even in this wide-open terrain) so the goal is always to get that close- but the typical 'challenge' with Bighorn is the terrain they usually stick to. His reaction says it all after the shot- Rams rarely dip into flats/valleys/cols they're usually a pretty decent scramble up the side of a mountain.