Altimus Adventures Guide Service is a licensed guide service in nine states and Larry L. and Stephanie Altimus along with Bo Morgan have been guiding together for over 25 years. Each hunt is personally guided and you are never given a sub-guide. If you want experience, honesty, and integrity consider sharing your next adventure with Altimus Adventures.

Below are the results of a very successful and exciting 2008 season.

Below are the results from our 2007 season.

Below are the results from our 2006 season.

Altimus Adventures Outfitting and Guiding Service offers superb quality hunts for Desert Bighorn Sheep in the state of Texas, where permits are obtained through private landowners. There is no drawing for these permits.

In August the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department conducts a helicopter survey on various private ranches for desert bighorn. These ranches are extremely large (35,000-200,000 acres) with miles of very rugged desert sheep country in the mountain ranges of the Sierra Diablo, Beach, and Baylor mountains. They are located north of Van Horn Texas 120 miles east of El Paso. The result of the survey in 2007 counted 868 desert bighorns! If the Department feels the population within that property will warrant the harvest of a desert bighorn ram they will give the landowner a permit to hunt bighorn on their property. Most properties will be offered one permit, but in some instances, multiple tags are awarded.

The landowner in turn can do with their sheep permit as they wish. They can hunt it themselves, give it away, throw it away, or sell it. With the demand for quality desert sheep, most of course will sell their permits.

Since 2000 there have generally been about 6-14 permits annually. In 2002 Altimus Adventures was asked to guide their first TX desert sheep hunt and have continued to do so each year, harvesting 19 rams through March of 2009. Altimus Adventures is the primary source for Texas Desert Sheep hunts. They have established trusting relationships with all the various landowners and most tags are allocated to Altimus even before they are issued by TX P & W. They obtain 5-6 tags each year and demand for those is very high with most tags spoken for 1-2 years in advance.

The cost of the permits are of course set by the landowner and Altimus Adventures charges their normal guiding fee in addition to the landowner permit. As of 2008 most landowners were charging $60,000 to $65,000 for their permit and the Altimus Adventures Guide fee is $9500. This is for 2 guides for one hunter and includes all meals, accommodations, transportation, and field care of your trophy.

One major advantage of this hunt over a state draw tag in other states, is Texas Parks and Wildlife allows a ten day hunting period, which can be taken anytime within a one year period. Altimus generally likes to hunt the months of Nov thru March, because of cooler temperatures and more sightings due to greater activity. Altimus has also made arrangements with all the landowners to schedule the hunt into two five day periods allowing for greater flexibility due to weather conditions such as severe wind and/or rain.

The ram quality from these hunts is outstanding as can be seen from the photographs. A hunter always has the option to look over several quality rams before deciding on the trophy he wishes to pursue. Altimus has never taken a ram scoring less than 160 and most are mid to high 160’s. The largest ram taken by Altimus Adventures was by Stephanie Altimus when she took the Texas state record with a ram scoring a whopping 184 0/8 B&C. As of March 2009, 7 of the 19 rams taken by Altimus have scored over 170 (surpassing B&C minimum of 168) which is an amazing percentage!

If you think a Texas desert sheep hunt is something you would be interested in, give Larry Altimus a call to secure your tag. A small deposit is required to hold your hunt, and as previously mentioned, the waiting period on a hunt may be a year or two.

If you would like more information please email or call Larry at altimus@vtc.net or 520-826-1032.

Trophies Taken in 2009

Trophies Taken in 2008

Trophies Taken in 2007

Trophies Taken in 2006 and Earlier