Montana Bighorn Sheep

Unit S381 (Sleeping Giant)

Montana Hunting Guide — Bighorn Sheep

Unit S381 lies in Lewis and Clark County. 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 S381

Unit S381 lies in Lewis and Clark County. 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.

Where to Find Bighorn Sheep in Unit S381

What Montana FWP publishes for unit S381 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 Lewis and Clark County.

The lines of the unit: Rock Creek, Wolf Creek and Missouri River

Montana FWP draws unit S381 in Lewis and Clark County with a boundary that runs on Interstate 15 and Highway 279, and on Rock Creek, Wolf Creek, Missouri River and Hauser Dam, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions. Read it as a frame, not as a hint about animals. 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: Mitchell Mountain, Beartooth Mountain and Baldy Mountain

Named high points inside the unit include Mitchell Mountain at 7,027 feet, Beartooth Mountain at 6,790 feet, Baldy Mountain at 6,121 feet, Stony Point at 5,518 feet and Jackson Peak at 5,057 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: McLeod Basin, Glen Marie Gulch and Levings Gulch

Below them sit McLeod Basin at 4,224 feet, Glen Marie Gulch at 4,192 feet, Levings Gulch at 3,919 feet, Bear Gulch at 3,911 feet and Spring Gulch at 3,851 feet. Those are the basins, parks and bottoms this unit has, and they are what you glass into from above. Work out which of them you can see from one position before you pick a camp.

Unit S381 terrain and land status

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

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Beartooth Mountain (6,790 ft), Rattlesnake Mountain (4,911 ft)

Holding ground: Miners Gulch (4,483 ft), Rose Gulch (4,348 ft), Foster Gulch (3,604 ft)

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 S381

Montana FWP publishes no bighorn sheep success figure for unit S381 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 Mitchell Mountain, Beartooth Mountain and Baldy Mountain

Take a position on one of Mitchell Mountain (7,027 ft), Beartooth Mountain (6,790 ft), Baldy Mountain (6,121 ft) and Stony Point (5,518 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. Work the glass in strips and go back over ground you already covered — animals appear in country you looked at ten minutes ago. On the rut hunts, late hunts put rams with ewe groups on the same rock.

The way in: Interstate 15 and Highway 279

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 15 and Highway 279. 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. Park on the boundary and walk; a unit you can only enter from its rim rewards whoever is willing to leave the truck at the rim.

A first plan from the pins on this page

The map above marks Beartooth Mountain and Rattlesnake Mountain as places to see from, and Miners Gulch, Rose Gulch and Foster Gulch as ground to watch. Each pin is a named feature verified to fall inside the unit line, not a spot anyone has hunted. Walk between two of them rather than driving between four, and you will learn more in a day.

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 S381 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 S381?

Unit S381 lies in Lewis and Clark County. Montana FWP draws unit S381 with a boundary that runs on Interstate 15 and Highway 279, and on Rock Creek, Wolf Creek, Missouri River and Hauser Dam, walked corner by corner in its hunting district legal descriptions.

What is the bighorn sheep success rate in unit S381?

Montana FWP publishes no bighorn sheep success figure we can tie to unit S381 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