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Grizzly and moose available, too

Fly-in Alaskan sheep hunt offers high success and lots of sheep

This hunt is conducted by the only outfitter in three adjoining areas totaling more than 3,000 square miles in the Nutzotin Mountains near Slana, including a portion of the Wrangell-Saint Elias National Preserve about 300 miles northeast of Anchorage. This hunt is in such remote country that you won't compete with residents for your ram. The outfitter flies you into the country, where you will hike for the ram haunts. This saves many miles over a strictly backpack hunt. Rich LaRocco of Hunts.Net saw about 40 rams in two days before taking his ram in this area. The outfitter employs cabins or large bomb shelter tents. In good weather he can fly a hunter in a tundra-tire-equipped plane to the top of the mountain right in the middle of sheep country, where you can spike camp and hunt down to the rams.

Hunts.Net customer Ray Bridge of Utah hunted three days to get his 38-incher with 14-inch bases.

He and his brother both fly and guide in their area and both live at the base camp year-round with their families. They grew up with their father running this operation. He picks you up at Slana, then drives on the Nabesna Road across four creeks to Devils Mountain Lodge, where he and his brother and their wives and their mother live. If you want to take your wife on this trip, she can stay in the lodge while you're out hunting. Be advised that they use outhouses and no indoor plumbing in this remote location.

We have had excellent success with this outfitter. All our customers got rams and highly recommended him.

You'll hunt the north side of the Wrangells and the north side of the Nutzotin Mountains, such as like Cooper Pass and the headwaters of the Jacksina Glacier to our south. The Wrangells are mostly rolling, and the northside is shale. The Nutzotin is shale. The area totals about 84 miles by 40 miles and lies about 300 miles north of Anchorage. To charter a plane to camp is over $1,000 or more. The outfitter's family, brothers family and Mom all live here year round.

The area boasts 12 cabins as well as spike camps, including two on a plateau at about 6,000 feet. Some of the spike camps feature bomb shelter tents with cots and heaters.

Almost all rams taken on this hunt are full curl rams with horns measuring 34 to 39 inches long. Very few are 40 inchers. Most hunters in the past have tagged out in three to four days, but some hunt as many as seven or eight before killing their ram. Bases average 13". Single animal sheep hunters we can use horses or fly and drop them on top of the mountain or in the area and then they spike.-- Rich LaRocco

Hunts.Net customer Steve Bridge of Utah took his 36-incher on the first day.

Hunt	Price, guide:hunter ratio
Hunt SH4907
Sheep, 10 days	$14,500 1x1
Grizzly	Add $4,500
Moose	$call
Moose/grizzly combo	$call
Season	Additional animals
Aug. 10 till mid-Sept. Moose and grizzly open early Sept.	Grizzly available in season for $4,500 trophy fee. Two sheep hunters got grizzly in 2006.
Success
1998-2006: 133 hunters got 124 rams. All but two of the unsuccessful hunters had shots at reasonable ranges, some several opportunities. One of the hunters who did not get a shot was too obese to handle the hiking. Almost all rams are 34 to 39 inches. Hunters who hold out usually kill rams averaging 37 inches or more.
Travel	Meals
Fly to Anchorage and rent a car or take a bus for the six-hour drive to Slana or fly a charter for $1,000+ round trip	Guide prepares meat and potato type meals, not freeze-dried food.
Licenses	Lodging
Over the counter. Click here for latest prices	Tundra tents

Side view of Steve Bridge's ram.