High Country Domestic Sheep Hunting

[208backcountry]

I am located in Idaho, and have had multiple experiences in the past where I hike into a high country area to scout or hunt only to discover hundreds if not thousands of sheep accompanied by potential sex offenders/sheepherders.

Any tips on how to know where the sheep are, or might be before I show up to the trailhead and/or glassing point?

 

[PNW bow hunter]

Contact the government agency that owns the land

 

[Trapline]

Talk to the herder, i bet he has some good intel for the area.

 

[Wellsdw]

Read the title of the tread and thought my god that would be an easy hunt, Sheep are really dumb

 

[Trial153]

They are freaking vermin.

 

[RickH]

As said above just contact the govt. agency who manages the land. They should have a schedule of where the domestics are or should be at any particular time. I hate them on public lands in the high country.
The fact that they transmit disease (pneumonia) to bighorn sheep and have literally killed off entire herds of bighorns, documented, is a huge reason they shouldn't be there, especially where grazing allotments overlap with bighorn summer or winter range.

 

[208backcountry]

Talk to the herder, i bet he has some good intel for the area.

No habla

 

[Nickofthewoods]

I agree that is annoying, and I feel the same way about cattle on public property.

Are sheepherders known for being sex offenders?

 

[5MilesBack]

Read the title of the tread and thought my god that would be an easy hunt, Sheep are really dumb

Ya, I was going to say........I don't think it's legal to hunt domestic sheep in the high country or otherwise.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I agree that is annoying, and I feel the same way about cattle on public property.

Are sheepherders known for being sex offenders?

You can still find just about every type of game around cattle. When sheep come through, everything moves out.

 

[Hatchet Jack]

mountain maggots

 

[Carr5vols]

Do domestic mountain sheep taste as good as wild sheep...asking for a friend.

 

[Wags]

potential sex offenders/sheepherders.

Tell us how you really feel?

 

[208backcountry]

I agree that is annoying, and I feel the same way about cattle on public property.

Are sheepherders known for being sex offenders?

Not yet

 

[travispe]

I agree that is annoying, and I feel the same way about cattle on public property.

Are sheepherders known for being sex offenders?

Only the sheep will know.

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[208backcountry]

Only the sheep will know.

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I agree that is annoying, and I feel the same way about cattle on public property.

Are sheepherders known for being sex offenders?

it’s kind of like trees falling in the forest when no one is there to hear it.

 

[Nickofthewoods]

You can still find just about every type of game around cattle. When sheep come through, everything moves out.

Is that mostly because they are accompanied by people and dogs or just because there are so many? I've only run into a big herd once but I wasn't hunting. The cattle, similar to the sheep, detract from the my wilderness experience.

 

[Stalker69]

Thought maybe they were going to classify them as an invasive species. They should.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

Is that mostly because they are accompanied by people and dogs or just because there are so many? I've only run into a big herd once but I wasn't hunting. The cattle, similar to the sheep, detract from the my wilderness experience.

Man sheep are an entire other thing. They are crazy loud, aggressive dogs running around, they graze everything down to the dirt, just overtly disruptive to everything.
If I hear a herd coming through I pack up and move areas completely.

 

[Poser]

In CO, you can look up the grazing permits. The FS requires some elevation rotation: they start higher some years and lower the next, but they occupy fairly larges areas so no real way to know exactly how they will be moved around the permitted area. I generally avoid them and where they have been because they shit in all of the water sources. I do routinely cross though them to access certain destinations, though. The dogs have historically been cool with me. Usually escort me through the herd, but I have heard stories of aggression.