Post by steiny on Dec 27, 2016 9:28:56 GMT -5
Yeah, sheep hunting is pretty much cost prohibitive for anyone but the extremely wealthy. The cheapest and most available is Dall or Bighorn sheep. I shot a Dall in AK in 1996, I believe the hunt was $6800, today you'll pay close to double that. Bighorn hunting is about the same at $10-15,000 and up.
Stone sheep starts getting pretty expensive and the area they inhabit is pretty remote, see these advertised in the $40,000 range. It gets real crazy with Desert Bighorn, and the only place you can expect to get a tag is in old Mexico. Odds of drawing in the US are about a million to one. Wouldn't be unheard of to wrap up $75-100,000 in one of these.
Elk are mentioned a few times here. If you've not done it and are in pretty good shape, give it a try. I think elk is about the toughest physical hunting there is. They live in steep, difficult to access country. Then after you get one killed, the pack out can be brutal. On the plus side, there isn't much finer eating wild game.
I was pretty gung-ho for a while trying to kill a bunch of different species, fill my man cave with taxidermy, etc. and spent a whole lot of time and money at it. Shot sheep, moose, brown & black bear, wolf, caribou, muleys, antelope, elk and a lot of other smaller stuff. Best thing about most of those hunts was seeing the country. When it comes to a good old fashioned, challenging hunt, I don't think you can beat whitetails. Even at the best places in the world, putting a 150" whitetail on the ground is no slam dunk. It's also pretty amazing that these big bucks can live in such close proximity to people and rarely be seen.
Stone sheep starts getting pretty expensive and the area they inhabit is pretty remote, see these advertised in the $40,000 range. It gets real crazy with Desert Bighorn, and the only place you can expect to get a tag is in old Mexico. Odds of drawing in the US are about a million to one. Wouldn't be unheard of to wrap up $75-100,000 in one of these.
Elk are mentioned a few times here. If you've not done it and are in pretty good shape, give it a try. I think elk is about the toughest physical hunting there is. They live in steep, difficult to access country. Then after you get one killed, the pack out can be brutal. On the plus side, there isn't much finer eating wild game.
I was pretty gung-ho for a while trying to kill a bunch of different species, fill my man cave with taxidermy, etc. and spent a whole lot of time and money at it. Shot sheep, moose, brown & black bear, wolf, caribou, muleys, antelope, elk and a lot of other smaller stuff. Best thing about most of those hunts was seeing the country. When it comes to a good old fashioned, challenging hunt, I don't think you can beat whitetails. Even at the best places in the world, putting a 150" whitetail on the ground is no slam dunk. It's also pretty amazing that these big bucks can live in such close proximity to people and rarely be seen.
