Dall’s Sheep Hunts with Alaska Remote Guide Service

We offer incredible Dall’s Sheep hunting opportunities and only take a few clients each year.  We hunt in our “Sole Use” guide concession in Denali Preserve, near Mt. McKinley.  My concession just renewed through 2017, and was expanded to 600 plus square miles, and to include prime sheep areas that have been off limits to guided non resident Sheep hunters since 1988!!!. 

This is a remote area with no private land holdings, roads or established trails.  Access to sheep camps is almost exclusively by bush aircraft on big tundra tires.  Hunts will be conducted from base and/or mobile spike camps with expedition grade tents and equipment.  These are back pack type hunts where we sleep in tents on ground pads, and often carry our camp on our back.  Most meals especially in spike camps will be freeze dried. “Leave No Trace” camping practices are required by the National Park Service.

This area consistently holds some exceptional rams, and I have several access points that put us above timberline and within a few miles of good sheep hunting.  I can offer hunts with varying levels of difficulty, but as a rule, the big ones don’t come easy. Being in the best physical condition possible, will increase your chances for success and increased trophy size, but slow and steady on most hunts, will win the day as well! 

Prices and Specifics

11 Day, 1 X 1 Guided Dall Sheep Hunt = $12,500.00. per person.   Trip length includes in and out days.  When possible, we try to get clients that achieve early success, out early if they wish.  A legal Dall Sheep ram has to be full curl on at least one side, broomed on both sides, or at least 8 years old.

NOTE: A person who has been airborne may not take or assist in taking big game until after 3:00 a.m. following the day in which the flight occurred.  For this reason, Clients should try to arrive a day or two early and leave a day or two later than actual trip dates.  

DATES:  1st Hunt - August 8th – 18th / 2nd Hunt – Aug. 18th – 28th / 3rd Hunt – Aug. 31st – Sept. 10th /  4th Hunt –Sept. 13th – 23rd 

Dall Sheep season runs from August 10th to September 20th. Grizzlies can be hunted into October.  August and early September dates are recommended for dall sheep hunts, as cold temperatures and snow often arrives early at higher elevations.  Brown/grizzly hides are usually best after September 1st.

PRICES INCLUDE -  one round trip air charter, food, lodging and trophy care in the field (necessary fleshing and salting to preserve hides until we get to town), and transportation between Anchorage and the air charter.
 
NOT INCLUDED - Round trip transportation of you and your gear, game and trophies between your home and Anchorage, necessary hotel accommodations before and after your hunt, and licenses and tags.  We will gladly assist you in making arrangements and reservations, and can sell you the tags ourselves ($85.00 for non-resident Hunting license, $500.00 brown/grizzly tag, $425.00 sheep tag – see “license and tag fees” link for complete information).  
 
BROWN or GRIZZLY BEAR ADD ON – Brown and grizzly bear season runs concurrently with sheep in most portions of my guide concession.  If you harvest your Dall ram early, and want to also hunt for grizzly we’ll do our best to accommodate you. You can hunt grizzly from the same camp for a $5500.00 trophy fee – time, weather and resources permitting.   If we have to move to a different spot to initiate a second specie hunt for grizzlies, we charge $2500.00 plus extra air charter fees up front.  The remainder of the trophy fee ($3000.00) would be collected when you get your game. 

DALL SHEEP OR GRIZZLY?? : Tags work for species of equal or lesser value.  Purchasing a grizzly tag for $500.00 versus a sheep tag for $425.00, would allow a sheep hunter to shoot a grizzly instead of a sheep, if he ran into a nice one before harvesting his ram.  I’m a license vendor and can sell you additional tags in the field if you want to hunt for a second animal, but tags do have to be purchased in advance.
 
INCIDENTAL SPECIES – Black bear, wolf and wolverine can be hunted for no additional charge, contingent upon open seasons.  “Incidental” means that we don’t move to or specifically hunt for them, but if we run across one while pursuing sheep or grizzly, and can take it without messing up your main hunt, you can.  You must purchase the tags in advance. 

ADDING DAYS AND/OR AN EXTRA GUIDE - We will do everything possible to try to customize your hunt to meet your expectations.  Extra days and/or an extra guide are just two options on how we can adapt your hunt towards higher success and trophy quality and/or multiple species.  Let us know if either of these options interest you.