Spot & Stalk · Mule Deer
Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho — out of Grandjean
A guided trophy mule deer hunt out of Grandjean, hunting high and glassing open side hills through October. Spot and stalk on horseback in the same exclusive area they hunt elk.
This trip is guided by
Sawtooth Wilderness Outfitters
Josh Thurber
Lead Guide & Outfitter | Experience Director
Three weeks in October, hunting high and glassing the open side hills for a trophy buck. Spot and stalk, on horseback, in the same 250 square miles they hold exclusively for deer and elk.
SWO refuse to work one fixed camp. They move with horses and mules between multiple backcountry camps and a front-country cabin base at Grandjean, so a hunt can chase the animals instead of the infrastructure. Backcountry camps are wall tents, cots and wood stoves; the Grandjean cabins have a bed, a shower and internet; and ultralight tents go in when the hunt demands country neither will reach.
They are explicit about what they will and will not promise: "Unlike guaranteed trophy hunts, we believe in the intrinsic value of earned success." They control the food, the guides, the stock and the camps, and they do not claim to control the weather or the animals.
Mule Deer
Elk
Rifle
Spot & Stalk, Backcountry, Horseback
Wilderness / backcountry, Public / leased units
Free-range (fair chase)
Not included
Approximate area, not an exact location.
Sawtooth Wilderness Outfitters
Sawtooth Wilderness Outfitters runs out of Grandjean, Idaho, on the south fork of the Payette River at the edge of the Sawtooth Wilderness.
Josh Thurber
Lead Guide & Outfitter | Experience Director
Josh Thurber
Lead Guide & Outfitter | Experience Director
“Roving horseback hunts and pack trips out of Grandjean, in 250 square miles of the Sawtooth Wilderness they hold exclusively.”
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$5,500 / person
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Sawtooth Wilderness, Idaho — out of Grandjean
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