CO: drew six resident archery ram tags, arrowed two bighorn rams, believe that was out of 34 applications, with about 15 of them for Desert sheep (didn’t draw Desert). Drew one second choice archery ewe tag, never hunted it as I had 5 other good tags that fall.
NV: Applied for one NR Desert sheep tag, drew it and arrowed a ram!!!!
BC resident: apply every year for a California Bighorn tag but am 0 for 11 in the draw.
Also apply for the Dall sheep and am 0 for 7 in that draw.
The good news is over the counter tags sheep tags are available and I arrowed a Stone on my eighth hunt and helped my hunting buddy out to arrow one a few years ago as well.
The same sheep tag…,one tag per year can be used in over the counter Bighorn or California Bighorn areas that is used for hunting Stone sheep. Seasons are about 2–1/2 months long for Stones and typically 2/3 of that for Bighorns.
In summary, out of 53 applications I drew 8 tags. 52 of the applications were for CO or BC resident tags. All 7 Bighorn tags were drawn in CO.
Was one for one on NR tag draws….NV Desert sheep.
I also went the guided route twice on Dall sheep. Had a really crappy unsuccessful archery Dall hunt with Tom Shankster in Alaska. Then went on a great NWT archery Dall hunt 20 yrs later and arrowed a Dall with Canol Outfitters. I enjoyed the NWT hunt with a great guide and certainly rate it up there with all my unguided sheep hunts.