Units / Montana / Sheep district 501
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.
Public land
69%
262,850 ac of 380,653 ac
Landlocked public
971 ac
public you can't legally reach
>1 mi from a road
76%
of public · 200,491 ac
Walk-in access
6,605 ac
private land opened to hunting
Bighorn sheep · 2025 · success = harvest ÷ hunters
6% success
5 taken by 84 hunters · 458 days afield
5 bucks (bucks only) · 0 fawns
NR 7% · Res 6% success
Bighorn sheep hunter success · 2005–2025 · 7% → 6%
Plan it
Montana bighorn sheep draw odds — 1 hunt here →
187 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
Where the ground sits
Tap or hover the bars for each elevation band
Slope mix
Which way the slopes face
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
Boundaries from the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks bighorn sheep hunt-area layer; ownership from USGS PAD-US; access from the state walk-in program; roads from OSM + MVUM. Same open formulas as every unit page — the methodology is published and the code is open.