Montana Bighorn Sheep

Unit S210 (John Long Range)

Montana Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep

Unit S210 lies in Missoula and Granite counties. Montana FWP publishes no per-unit bighorn sheep success figure we can verify for this unit. Check land status on a current map before you plan a route.

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Bighorn Sheep Hunting in Unit S210

Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit S210

What Montana FWP publishes for unit S210 is a boundary, not a bighorn sheep map. Every place named below sits inside the unit line. Which of them holds animals in your season is for you to find out. The unit lies in Missoula and Granite counties.

The lines of the unit: Rock Creek, Harvey Creek and Otter Creek

Montana FWP draws unit S210 in Missoula and Granite counties with a boundary that runs on Interstate 90, USFS Road 4308, USFS Road 16118 and USFS Trail 206, and on Rock Creek, Harvey Creek, Otter Creek and Rock Creek-Harvey Creek Divide, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. That is a legal description, not a habitat map. Its value is practical — those are the features you will navigate by, and the ridges that separate one day's country from another's.

High ground inside the line: Sliderock Mountain, Solomon Ridge and Spink Point

Named high points inside the unit include Sliderock Mountain at 7,819 feet, Solomon Ridge at 7,418 feet, Spink Point at 7,316 feet, Solomon Mountain at 6,898 feet and Tyler Point at 6,858 feet. Several carry a public-land flag in our data, which makes them the first places to try for a view. Sheep on lower country still need rock, and on a desert unit the rock is the whole hunt.

Holding ground: Potato Gulch, Welch-Gillispie Saddle and Whitetail Saddle

Below them sit Potato Gulch at 5,496 feet, Welch-Gillispie Saddle at 5,486 feet, Whitetail Saddle at 5,284 feet, Brewster Tyler Saddle at 5,274 feet and Clute Gulch at 4,929 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Pick the one with the least road on its upwind side.

Water: Lodgepole Spring

Named sources include Lodgepole Spring. Nothing in the data says which of them run in autumn, so a scouting trip earns its fuel.

Unit S210 terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Sliderock Mountain (7,819 ft), Solomon Ridge (7,418 ft), Spink Point (7,316 ft), Solomon Mountain (6,898 ft)

Holding ground: Welcome Sawmill Saddle (7,191 ft), West Fork Tyler Saddle (6,016 ft), Lodgepole Spring

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt Bighorn Sheep in Unit S210

Montana FWP publishes no bighorn sheep success figure for unit S210 that we can tie to this unit alone, so we won't quote one. The plan: pick a glassing position across from the escape terrain and stay on it for hours, not minutes.

Glassing from Burnt Mountain, Babcock Mountain and East Hill

Take a position on one of Burnt Mountain (6,371 ft), Babcock Mountain (6,367 ft), East Hill (6,147 ft) and Grizzly Point (5,497 ft) and be on it before light. Work the morning with the air falling away from you, then accept that by mid-morning the wind has reversed and the plan has to change with it. Glass the edges first, then the shaded timber, then the edges again as the light goes. On the rut hunts, late hunts put rams with ewe groups on the same rock.

The way in: Interstate 90, USFS Road 4308 and USFS Road 16118

We have no road inventory for this unit, so the only routes we can name are the ones Montana FWP draws the boundary with: Interstate 90, USFS Road 4308, USFS Road 16118, USFS Trail 206 and USFS Trail 65. Those are its edges, not its interior — useful because they are where you leave the pavement, and useless for telling you what the inside is like. Check each of them on a current motor-vehicle-use map before you count on it, because a line on a boundary description is not a promise of public access.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Sliderock Mountain, Solomon Ridge, Spink Point and Solomon Mountain as places to see from, and Welcome Sawmill Saddle, West Fork Tyler Saddle and Lodgepole Spring as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Take the pair you can reach on one road and treat the rest as a second trip.

What we can't tell you

Some of the ground named above carries no land-status flag we trust, so check ownership on a current layer before you hunt it. We have no bighorn sheep success figure for this unit that survives checking against Montana FWP's own harvest and hunter counts, and we would rather say so than print a statewide average as though it were measured here.

Montana rules that decide your day

Summarised from FWP regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset.

Motorized retrieval

Montana has no general off-road retrieval allowance; travel stays on open routes.

Tagging

Validate the tag and attach it to the carcass before moving the animal.

Leaving meat

Wasting game meat is illegal.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No discharging a firearm within 150 yards of an occupied dwelling without permission, and no shooting from or across a public road.

Bighorn Sheep: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Bighorn Sheep Success Rates

Montana FWP's 2023 harvest estimates carry no bighorn sheep row for unit S210 that we can read back to this unit on its own. Where the agency reports a unit inside a grouping, or prints a table our parser cannot resolve to a single column, we leave the number out rather than publish a statewide average as though it had been measured here. Montana FWP's current harvest estimates are the place to check before you apply.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Colorado unit S210?

Unit S210 lies in Missoula and Granite counties. Montana FWP draws unit S210 with a boundary that runs on Interstate 90, USFS Road 4308, USFS Road 16118 and USFS Trail 206, and on Rock Creek, Harvey Creek, Otter Creek and Rock Creek-Harvey Creek Divide, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the bighorn sheep success rate in unit S210?

Montana FWP publishes no bighorn sheep success figure we can tie to unit S210 on its own — the 2023 harvest tables either omit the unit or report it in a grouping we could not read back to it reliably. Rather than quote a statewide average as though it were measured here, we say so. Check Montana FWP's current harvest estimates before you apply.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-10-24.

Montana FWP Hunting District Legal Descriptions, 2026/2027 — sheep hunting districts (pp. 10-13) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: GMU boundary description, Counties the unit lies in · accessed 2026-10-24
FWP hunting district feature services — deer/elk, antelope, moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat districts (2026 and 2027 seasons) — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks · supports: Mapped extent of the unit, Which named ground falls inside the unit line · accessed 2026-10-24