Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Is there anyplace in North America to hunt sheep for less than $30,000?

Mule Deer is correct ...I have never been South of the border but from I have been told through FNAWS and Grand Slam/OVIS reports most of the fenced Desert Sheep hunts are found in Sonora....and there seem to be several operations...Mexico does have some quality free ranging Desert Sheep hunts in Sonora but anyone wanting to hunt Desert Sheep in Mexico must be careful....

Some 15 years ago there were also a few high fenced Elk operations located in Montana..... that also had Sheep mostly Dall and Bighorn, ..although I have heard California Bighorn, Stone and Desert were also available...and there are reports one such individual got all 5 in a weekend!!

Montana put a halt to these high fence operations.. But, there are still some high fences operations in Canada which offer Sheep...reports are a 200+ Dall was shot in one of these operations a few years back!! Like what was going on in Montana, the high fence Elk operations are where one is usually finding the fenced Sheep...reports out of BC and the Yukon are now that no live sheep are being exported...which in my opinion is a step in the right direction ...

I will not question why anyone would want to take any animal under these conditions...that is a decision for that person......but for me, give me the 15 day horseback hunts into the back country of BC, Yukon, NWT, Alberta and Arizona..like JOC and others did.....or a fly in Alaskan backpack hunt..sleeping on the side of a mountain without a tent or climbing a mountain in rain, sleet, snow and fog...give me the adventure...the thrill of the hunt and earning my trophy under fair chase hunting conditions...that's what it is all about...

I paid $6k for a dall sheep hunt in the Alaska range last year [nic expenses]

Now you wont get the best outfitters or the best areas for that kind of $$......

I can't possibly imagine what the attraction is to hunt any high fence animal,especially a sheep....pretty worthless "trophy".

Bob:
It's simple. It's actually called 'shooting" but it's definitely not "hunting".
I "shot" my bison in a fenced in farm over in Delta Junction about 10 years ago. I was "hunting" the last time I shot my moose.
I'm with you.
Bear in Fairbanks

If I draw a moose tag here, I will DIY because I know I can get a decent one in the areas I currently hunt. If I draw a sheep tag here, I will wind up writing a check. I don�t know my way around prime sheep country, and no amount of trips to the area is going to help me enough to give me the confidence I need, unless I can take 6 months off and live in the area. In my case, it will not be so much about my ego but about respect for the precious tag! Also, by the time I draw, I will be working to keep myself in shape for the hunt, and I am going to need some help with the rest.