Alberta hopes to ram world record with humongous horns from bighorn sheep

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Fish and Wildlife officer Dennis Prodan looks over the skull of a bighorn sheep found near Hinton, Alta., in Edmonton on Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Wildlife officials in Alberta think they\'ve found the big one. They believe a set of spiral horns on the skull of a bighorn sheep found east of the Rocky Mountains will set a new world record. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

EDMONTON – Wildlife officials in Alberta think they’ve found the big one.

They believe a set of spiral horns on the skull of a bighorn sheep found east of the Rocky Mountains will set a new world record.

Now all they have to do is wait.

Experts say the horns, weighing 18 kilograms, must be left to dry for a couple of months before they can be officially measured.

A preliminary count puts the horns almost two centimetres over the score of the current world-record holder — a set belonging to a bighorn shot by a hunter in Alberta in 2000.

A wildlife officer discovered the latest rack near Hinton and believes it came from a 10-year old ram that died of natural causes last year.

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