What would be the best way to go about getting into Sheep hunting in 2025, assuming you were starting out fresh today?

[KHntr]

get a friend in BC for sheep and goat.

Permit to Accompany Non-Resident or Non-Resident Aliens to Hunt Big Game

Information about the permit to accompany program allowing non-residents and non-resident aliens of BC to hunt in BC.

www2.gov.bc.ca

yukon no grizzly or sheep/goat allowed for special guiding.

BC doesn’t give out Permit to Accompany for sheep. Residents or guided by a licensed outfitter only.

 

[medvedyt]

BC doesn’t give out Permit to Accompany for sheep. Residents or guided by a licensed outfitter only.

that is even reducing the opportunity for hunting.

 

[Northern Safari]

I've received a handful of quotes now for sheep hunts in the Yukon and NWT. All hunts are $70,000 USD++ and some are booking out to 2029.

Not looking likely that I will be able to swing a $96,000 CAD Sheep hunt at this point.....what's the next most "affordable" international sheep, behind the Dall?

 

[mulveymo]

Six figures for a sheep hunt is baffling. You can go on a few African safaris for that price, or any number of other crazy hunts around the world. But I just don't get sheep. Maybe it's the scarcity, but the appeal just isn't there for me.

 

[Northern Safari]

Six figures for a sheep hunt is baffling. You can go on a few African safaris for that price, or any number of other crazy hunts around the world. But I just don't get sheep. Maybe it's the scarcity, but the appeal just isn't there for me.

Rich man's game for sure, even richer for the bighorns.

 

[Eship]

Six figures for a sheep hunt is baffling. You can go on a few African safaris for that price, or any number of other crazy hunts around the world. But I just don't get sheep. Maybe it's the scarcity, but the appeal just isn't there for me.

I concur with this. I do not get the draw to it. It seems that the fact that it is so cost prohibitive is part of the appeal. I’m young and likely could pay for a sheep hunt, but that doesn’t mean I can “afford” it since I have a family, and I think it’s absurd to pay that much just to kill a sheep. So many other opportunities around the world for way less.

If it’s purely for the challenge, I can think of a lot of even tougher challenges that do not require you spending a massive amount of money. You could even go backpacking and glassing in one of the areas for them, and then go ahead to some private ranch like was mentioned earlier and shoot one there. If you want, you could even do laps in order to make the pack out extremely long/difficult to give yourself a challenge(joking). That’ll give you an equivalent experience but for 10% of the cost and without the stress of Possibly not even filling a tag. I know it’s not the same, but I’m just trying to imagine other options that could fill the desire. If you’re not pulling in $200k plus per year while still being frugal, the only logical way I see of doing it is through raffles or going and becoming a resident of one of the areas.

 

[idelkslayer]

You can do a Marco Polo hunt in one of the central asian countries for less than $30,000. Snow sheep in Kamchatka for less than $20,000.

 

[Northern Safari]

I concur with this. I do not get the draw to it. It seems that the fact that it is so cost prohibitive is part of the appeal. I’m young and likely could pay for a sheep hunt, but that doesn’t mean I can “afford” it since I have a family, and I think it’s absurd to pay that much just to kill a sheep. So many other opportunities around the world for way less.

If it’s purely for the challenge, I can think of a lot of even tougher challenges that do not require you spending a massive amount of money. You could even go backpacking and glassing in one of the areas for them, and then go ahead to some private ranch like was mentioned earlier and shoot one there. If you want, you could even do laps in order to make the pack out extremely long/difficult to give yourself a challenge(joking). That’ll give you an equivalent experience but for 10% of the cost and without the stress of Possibly not even filling a tag. I know it’s not the same, but I’m just trying to imagine other options that could fill the desire. If you’re not pulling in $200k plus per year while still being frugal, the only logical way I see of doing it is through raffles or going and becoming a resident of one of the areas.

I admit part of the appeal is the mystique and sense of how unobtainable a sheep hunt is today.

I need to find myself an “AA” group for people that are “not quite sheep rich” so we can vent our frustrations of the current state of sheep hunting.

I was hoping that a Dall sheep would fall within budget but it honestly seems like those prices have doubled in the last 2-3 years that I have been looking.

I’ll stick to the mountain goats and ibex and African game to get my thrills.

 

[Northern Safari]

You can do a Marco Polo hunt in one of the central asian countries for less than $30,000. Snow sheep in Kamchatka for less than $20,000.

I’ve been seeing these as well. Can do Marco Polo and an Ibex for under 50k.