What hunts do people have planned for this fall? I'm leaving this weekend for a three week pack trip into the Brooks. Everything is loaded and ready to go.I will be looking for a good sheep and if a big griz or once in a lifetime bo or moose crosses my path it will come home with me as well. It will be nice just to be hunting with a good friend and not guiding.

Sounds as if you'll have a great time! Good luck and bring back lots of pictures.

(I'll be hunting elk and deer in Idaho, not far from home.)

L.W.

I also will be hunting Idaho off old Mojo my rope horse, that will give him a break from the year of roping, and that really gets his mind right..Good for both of us...

Hunting horseback is the only way to hunt IMO, particularly deer as you can get up high and away from the vehicle traffic and foot hunters, go where the big ones live and cover 20 miles a day..That ups your chances a bunch!

I will only hunt deer this year, as I did not draw an elk tag and don't have the wheretofore or desire to pack in a camp to my favorite spot in the Selway this year. Guess I'm getting old and remember what my daddy said, "Son, hunt'en elk is like masterbation, once you pull the trigger you got an awful mess on your hands!"....

Cap..........have a good time..........I know all about guiding and not going hunting. Send me a PM with your info....would like to go to Alaska for bou or moose. A holiday for me.

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My late father did a lot of shooting and hunting from horse back mostly with persian short mauser (8x57)and sometime with his broomhandle pistol with wooden stock, he hunted wild sheep back in 1920 to 1930. I can barly ride a horse and definitly not shooting from horse-back
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Just got back from my hunt. The hunt I had planned went sour preaty early. So went with plan C seen a few griz but came home with one real nice bou and got a moose this morning right in the horse pasture. Sheep will wait until next year but there still a chance for grizz this year. Now I just have to wait two months until my B.C deer hunt.

I drew a Desert Bighorn tag. The hunt runs for 6 weeks. I plan on taking the horse in on several of trips. Some weekends using the ATV,s where I can cover more ground faster. But there are a lot of places where the ATV's can't go that the horses can.

Most years I have a deer and elk tag, We pack in a camp and hunt the month of October off the horses. But with the sheep tag this year, I didn' buy a elk tag.

You can get around pretty good in that kind of country on a good horse or mule, just take your time and pick your way around or work the top of the rimrocks and sit on the points and chunk rocks off in the canyons, and glass them,that works real well..

If you have a partner then you sit and watch and let him ride around to another point and while he is sitting and watching you ride to another point, switching off, that way someone is always watching...It works, and once on top the rideing is easy..

As it turned out the sheep were not to be found in the kind of country in the picture above. The area where I found the Sheep had Lots of cliffs below the shelfs and more cliffs above.

There was no way to get horses through that area. In fact a former sheep guide I talked to told me if I was seeing wild mustangs or wild donkeys, i would not see sheep. They don't inhabit the same area.

Here is where I found the sheep,

Wow that is some awesome looking country right there !

Yep, its time to tie or hobble your caballo, and get on foot..

He's already on foot, teetering on that ridge!

Yes, I found the horses were not of much value when it came to my sheep hunt.

We'd spot sheep 2 miles away and try and find a way down the cliffs to get close enough for a shot.

Not much value? what if you had to walk to where you left the horses or were you in the park at SLC?