buffybr
Lil-Rokslider
I was lucky enough to have started sheep hunting in the early '80s when I moved down to SW Montana. I took 3 bighorn rams on DIY and DIY solo hunts in Montana's Unlimited ram units that each cost me only a $25 tag and a tank of gas. I backpacked one hunt and used my horses on the other 2.
In 1999 an outfitter friend of my called me about a Dall sheep cancellation in the MacKenzie Mountains of Canada's Northwest Territory. It was a fly-in backpack hunt and I was fortunate enough to have shot a great Dall ram, a mountain caribou, and a wolverine.
Two years later, that same friend called me again about a cancelation Stone sheep hunt for $11,000, but I was in the middle of a very nasty divorce and couldn't go. I'd jump on that hunt in a second now.
When I was 71 I went on a Dagestan Tur hunt in Azerbaijan. That was a horseback/backpack hunt and was the most difficult hunt that I have ever been on.
As others have posted, a Stone sheep hunt is probably the most expensive due to their limited population and availability. A Desert ram hunt would probably be the 2nd most expensive, although several states offer tags through a drawing, but you should have started applying 20 years ago.
Montana still has a few Unlimited ram tag units, but the odds of finding a legal ram are very, very low. I've been unsuccessfully applying for a Montana draw ram tag for 41 years.
My rams...
In 1999 an outfitter friend of my called me about a Dall sheep cancellation in the MacKenzie Mountains of Canada's Northwest Territory. It was a fly-in backpack hunt and I was fortunate enough to have shot a great Dall ram, a mountain caribou, and a wolverine.
Two years later, that same friend called me again about a cancelation Stone sheep hunt for $11,000, but I was in the middle of a very nasty divorce and couldn't go. I'd jump on that hunt in a second now.
When I was 71 I went on a Dagestan Tur hunt in Azerbaijan. That was a horseback/backpack hunt and was the most difficult hunt that I have ever been on.
As others have posted, a Stone sheep hunt is probably the most expensive due to their limited population and availability. A Desert ram hunt would probably be the 2nd most expensive, although several states offer tags through a drawing, but you should have started applying 20 years ago.
Montana still has a few Unlimited ram tag units, but the odds of finding a legal ram are very, very low. I've been unsuccessfully applying for a Montana draw ram tag for 41 years.
My rams...
