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Sheep district 482 · Montana

Bighorn sheep hunt area — its own geography, not the district with the same number. Public land, access, and bighorn sheep harvest below are computed for this boundary.

Sheep district 482Full map — ownership, roads, wind →

Public hunting land

21%

242,250 ac of 1,140,176 ac

Landlocked public

51,751 ac

public you can't legally reach

>1 mi from a road

57%

of public · 138,923 ac

Bighorn sheep · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters

100% success

8 taken by 8 hunters · 40 days afield

5 rams · 3 ewes · 0 lambs

NR 100% · Res 100% success

Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2005–2025 · 100% → 100%

Plan it

See it on the map →

Montana bighorn sheep draw odds — 2 hunts here →

10 tags drawn on this sheep district last season.

OpenHunt for Android is on Google Play — offline packs, GPS tracks, same account. Send it to your phone →

Terrain — this boundary, not the district’s

Elevation2,260–5,530 ft

Median elevation3,290 ft

Median slope4°

Where the ground sits

2,260 ft5,530 ft

Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band

Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 33%

E 19%

S 26%

W 22%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 200 m grid. See the code →

Nearby bighorn sheep sheep districts

Sheep district 680 · 51% public Sheep district 620 · 46% public Sheep district 622 · 71% public Sheep district 455 · 36% public

Boundaries from the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks bighorn sheep hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.