Hunting and eating Goat - questions.
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Take your time and be CAREFUL, goat country is very trecherous and no place to be in a hurry. Take 100 ft of good climbing rope, you may very well need it. Twice now I've wished I had rope goat hunting. It is very easy to climb up where you can't climb down. I have also noticed no one has advised you of "the death dive" that your goat will very likely do after being shot as if only to ruin your cape and horns. They will literally dive off into mid air with no hope of survival, just to get away, if you are too close. You will learn much on your first goat hunt, best to go with someone who has done it before, if at all possible.
Looks like the translator was right - snow sheep Ovis Nivicola.
http://www.lhnet.org/snow-sheep/#Maps
Those are sheep...not goats...something was definitely lost in the translation. Mountain goats are only found in North America....Snow Sheep are not.
I would not suggest to take climbing rope to anyone who isn't fully versed and experienced in making anchors, and the gear associated with making an anchor and repelling off it. Very easy to get into trouble trying to rap off gear when you're anchor may not be properly constructed.
Great advice telling a prospective mountain hunter to watch where he is. It is far easier to up climb than down climb. Make sure you don't get stuck, many, many, many people have died after climbing up something and not being able to climb down.
Here's what you do.......
An old joke my Grandfather told me years ago, it applies to antelope as well, according to him.
Kill the goat with an axe and dress it out.
Dig a pit 6' long by 4' wide and 5' deep. Start a fire using oak, apple, willow or cedar. Add to the fire until you have 3' of coals. Build a stand and use the axe as a spit. Turn the goat on the spit for six hours or more.
When the carcass reaches 160 degrees internal temperature, remove the goat from the spit and throw it away.
Eat the axe!!
An old joke my Grandfather told me years ago, it applies to antelope as well, according to him.
Kill the goat with an axe and dress it out.
Dig a pit 6' long by 4' wide and 5' deep. Start a fire using oak, apple, willow or cedar. Add to the fire until you have 3' of coals. Build a stand and use the axe as a spit. Turn the goat on the spit for six hours or more.
When the carcass reaches 160 degrees internal temperature, remove the goat from the spit and throw it away.
Eat the axe!!
You jump to conclusions sir, I would never tell a non experienced climber to repell, I was refering to letting my pack down over some real rough stuff, and in one place it would have been nice as an assist while decending down a super steep chimney. There are many helpful uses for climbing rope, and I only trust climbing rope, I know it's not "made in China" and will hold my weight if necessary.
A buddy shot a goat on the lip of a cliff and after we climbed over to it, we had to tie ourselves off, to prevent us from sliding over the cliff while working on the goat. Many, many essential uses for rope while goat hunting, short of repelling !!
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Fair enough! For that use static rope may be a better option and some rudimentary experience making anchors. Not worried about you, you've been there and done that. More worried about those heading to the hills for the first few times.
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I have had street vendor food in Mexico and it was delish!
Skull of goat in the taco meat!
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I've killed and ate two goats. The first was a very old Nanny and it tasted horrible. Nothing I tried worked, even sausage was disgusting. The second was a B&C Billy and I expected the worse but surprisingly it wasn't all that bad. I cooked both the same and in the same proven recipes they were just on two ends of the spectrum.
Don't listen to all the nay-sayers who advise that Mountain Goat is "tough as boot leather", etc. It's my favourite wild meat of all. Like any wild meat, if you shoot a very old specimen, do a crappy job of dressing, get dirt all over it, miss-treat it, get urine or scent gland on your knife and then continue to use it to de-bone or quarter and amimal, well, guess what? You're going to have bad meat no matter what it is.
Far too many don't know how to cook wild meat - they try to cook it like they would a much fatter meat, like beef or pork. Wild meat is too lean to cook it like that - the difference between a good game dish and an over-cooked waste can literally come down to mere minutes.
One of the best investments for any budding wildlife cook, or experienced wildlife cooks for that matter, it Eileen Clarke's book "A Slice of the Wild".
"Goat" is a bit of a mis-nomer as well: they're actually members of the antelope family.
Far too many don't know how to cook wild meat - they try to cook it like they would a much fatter meat, like beef or pork. Wild meat is too lean to cook it like that - the difference between a good game dish and an over-cooked waste can literally come down to mere minutes.
One of the best investments for any budding wildlife cook, or experienced wildlife cooks for that matter, it Eileen Clarke's book "A Slice of the Wild".
"Goat" is a bit of a mis-nomer as well: they're actually members of the antelope family.
Like c-fbmi says watch out for those goats trying to jump off a cliff to get away. I've taken a couple and I used a 300 H&H but that was only because I was also carrying tags for larger animals, most any reasonable big game rifle will do. I would suggest getting familiar with how your rifle shoots at steep uphill and downhill angles, it's quite different and there are a few tricks but the best thing is to try it out a bit in a safe setting. I've found the meat to be delicious, the ground meat can be put into most anything, stew is great and my wife found a few other delicious ways to cook it.
Yummy Mexican street vendor food, I loved it. I worked in Mexico for a year and only got sick once. I swear it was a bad batch of Tecate beer. The only place I know you could do your Christmas shopping driving on the way to work with all the street vendors who would approach the car to sell you stuff when you stopped at a light.
I have had street vendor food in Mexico and it was delish!
Skull of goat in the taco meat!
