Sheep hunt 27-1 idaho

[BAKPAKR]

If you don’t already have a tripod mount for your binoculars, get one. It really helps with even 10x binos.

 

[BrentM]

I put in for 27-1 in Idaho, wondering if anyone has some insight on where to find the dang things. What do I look for mostly. I’ve elk hunted up there with no success an thought it looked more like sheep country than elk so I put in for it. I caught the sheep big when I got my desert sheep a couple years ago.

Used to guide the area. Horse country. Get up high, sun to your back, glass. I'd have to look at a map, but sheep numbers are not great up there but they stick around the same spot July through Oct/Nov. Scouting is worth it.

 

[kessingm]

Used to guide the area. Horse country. Get up high, sun to your back, glass. I'd have to look at a map, but sheep numbers are not great up there but they stick around the same spot July through Oct/Nov. Scouting is worth it.

Thank you for the info! Trying to figure out when I can make a scouting trip!

 

[thomasbangs]

I drew my tag for a Bighorn in 27-3 back in 1991, I believe it is next to or similar terrain as 27-1. I was 41 years old at the time and from training all summer with a 50 lb. pack on my back was in the best shape of my life since high school. It payed off, it took my partner and I 2 days to pack our gear and my sheep out to the trailhead (Hoodoo Meadows) where we were parked. We packed in 3 times from end of August through first week of October. We changed drainages we were hunting in because I was told by previous sheep hunters that if I was in ewes and lambs to move which we did and it meant going down and up and over into the next drainage. Advice payed off, on October 10th I harvested my ram.

 

[kessingm]

I drew my tag for a Bighorn in 27-3 back in 1991, I believe it is next to or similar terrain as 27-1. I was 41 years old at the time and from training all summer with a 50 lb. pack on my back was in the best shape of my life since high school. It payed off, it took my partner and I 2 days to pack our gear and my sheep out to the trailhead (Hoodoo Meadows) where we were parked. We packed in 3 times from end of August through first week of October. We changed drainages we were hunting in because I was told by previous sheep hunters that if I was in ewes and lambs to move which we did and it meant going down and up and over into the next drainage. Advice payed off, on October 10th I harvested my ram.

Sounds epic! Dropping some weight and getting into better shape is definitely on my to-do list! Were the rams at a different elevation or just in a different drainage?

 

[thomasbangs]

They were in a different drainage, I got some good advice from a friend that harvested a ram in that area before it was once in a lifetime, after that he took some friends and family in there to get their rams. He is the one that told me where to go. Coincidentally he drew a tag across rhe river in the Big Creek drainage the same year I drew mine. He ended up getting a nice ram on about the same day I shot mine. He was the first person I called the night after I got home. 1991 was the year of the firestorm, there was a lot of smoke but not in the vicinity we were, saw lots of fires burning while driving home. Another piece of advice I was given was don't be afraid to hunt the timber.