Adventure Description

This preferred outfitter offers just a limited number of Stone Sheep hunts a year. They have excellent genetics (big dark rams) and a stable population of Stone Sheep, in a relatively small area, and they know where the sheep are. This preferred outfitter takes a maximum of one (1) Stone Sheep hunter at a time. This insures that every Sheep hunter they take has their full attention – access to the best hunting areas – and is hunting with their best guides. The ‘support crew’ on these Stone Sheep hunts includes an experienced guide (often the outfitter), a second ‘guide’ who is there to help with the scouting during your hunt, and a string of reliable mountain horses, who will help you (and your camp) get as close to the Stone Sheep as they can. But it is not an easy hunt – the mature rams are hard to find, and this outfitter require hunters who are, in sheep shape – able to put in the vertical feet, miles of hiking, and hours of glassing that it takes to get the job done. This outfitter’s Stone Sheep hunters typically fly into one of the outfitter’s mountain camps, where they are met by their guide with their ‘crew’ and the horses. In August, this outfitter and their family are usually in camp … it’s very much a family operation… so there will likely be kids running around and causing trouble. Once in camp, you and the outfitting team will pack up the horses & trail to where the outfitter and guides think the big rams are. They use the horses as much as is practical, and leave them behind when necessary. Sometimes you will do a lot of riding, sometimes more hiking, and sometimes you will backpack to get and stay up in country that isn’t very horse friendly… but most of the time you are not camped too far from the horses. It is not a hunt where you would need to backpack 2-3 days just to get to sheep country… a combination of float planes and horses will take most of that ‘grunt work’ out of the hunt. Every hunter will see Stone Sheep – ewes and lambs, and lots of ‘young’ – 4,5,6- year old rams. But the mature rams are smart and hard to find. The young rams, and family groups, are where you would expect to find them – up above the trees in the higher mountains. But the mature rams like to go down into the rocks and have been known to live in the willow at the tree line – coming ‘up’ to feed in the afternoons and evenings, and they move often. They are there, somewhere, but can be hard to find. For better or worse, a Stone Sheep hunt is simply one of the most difficult hunts in North America – there is no way around that. This is the ‘hunt of a lifetime’ – for this hunt you want an experienced and professional, capable outfitter, give us a call today.