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In the same unit, my friend and I drove up beside peoples houses and took pictures and video of multiple 170-180 class rams rutting in their yard. That same day, less than 3 miles away we had rams spooking at 2-300 yards as soon as they spotted us.
I took this picture on a recent elk hunt. Back in Sept. these guys would have been either in an unlimited wilderness area or very close to it. I was sitting in a pickup trying to keep the road and fences out of my pictures. :)
Bottom line is there are a lot of units in MT where it can be easy or almost impossible.
As far as an easy sheep hunt, I've got to think the Okanogan in southern BC would be hard to beat.
With that said there are units in Colorado where sheep and goat are used to people. They will come up to you and try to eat your power bar out of your hand. You can ride your atv into a herd of goats in one unit. But In other unit's where they don't see people I've seen Mtn goats spook at a couple hundred yards and run way high into the cliffs.
There's a very small lake between the capitol building and the Governor's mansion and the ducks and Canada geese would frequent that lake in November. They were called "The Governor's Geese." You could walk around the lake and those geese would barely move out of your way.
BUT, once they left that little secure 'refuge' to go out to feed, they were totally wild again.
These are all ewes and lambs and we got within 40 yards without them giving a hoot. However, we were on a well used hiking trail, so they were used to people.
The first night we had a tremendous snow hit the area, dropping 22" in town. The following day, Frank Simpson and I were taking turns breaking trail up the main hiking trail when we stopped for a breather and a snack.
This little banana head (see this photo and the one that follows) came onto the trail on our back trail, then started walking right to us. He stopped about 25' behind us and looked at us like he was thinking, "Will you guys please get going again? I've got places to go!"
Finally, he got frustrated that we weren't moving, so he walked a bit closer yet and decided to get off the trail and circle above us. That lasted for about 30,' whence he stopped after trying to get through three feet of fresh snow. He had a, "This totally sucks." look on his face, then turned around and went right back to where he'd left the trail.
We were ready to take off again and when we did, he followed close behind us like a puppy dog for another fifty yards, before breaking off the trail and heading down.
Unfortunately, my roll of film ran out right after he got on the trail and started towards us, so these two photos are all I've got.
Suffice it to sat Frank and I were laughing our butts off!
Odd how they behave differently - same sheep would not let you do that during hunting season.
