Mountain Goat Hunting?
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That could make for an interesting dynamic. Keep careful notes and records for SOMA's autop.............err......thorough research.��
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I've never been so glad to see one pharmaceutical instead of another. Ritalin accidents we can handle.
And as mentioned before the goat was consenting Dogleg. If this harassment continues I'll produce a photo of you smiling with H20 intoxication again.
And as mentioned before the goat was consenting Dogleg. If this harassment continues I'll produce a photo of you smiling with H20 intoxication again.
Every year I grab the stick and string,
out to climb the peaks to prove I still can,
just over that ridge I'll see the big 10",
well maybe the next ridge and that is when,
you see that white beast in the most ungodly of place,
the stock is on to within 30 but then,
the bastard climbs to the tallest peak,
stares down at me and sys you wanna try that again.........
out to climb the peaks to prove I still can,
just over that ridge I'll see the big 10",
well maybe the next ridge and that is when,
you see that white beast in the most ungodly of place,
the stock is on to within 30 but then,
the bastard climbs to the tallest peak,
stares down at me and sys you wanna try that again.........
- Location
- Saskatchewan
I have hunted goats three times. first time I accompanied my older brother in the coast range in BC. The mountain beat me. Took a good two weeks to get the devil's club thorns worked out of my palms and fingertips, it was the only thing you could hold onto to keep from sliding down hill or falling off a cliff. Fun though.
A few years later I went on a Yukon backpack hunt for Dall sheep and goats. Got a sheep after a 32 km packing expedition over the tundra, and then went goat hunting 'cuz I figured was all toughened up. The mountain beat me. The goats we could climb to were not shooters, and the shooters were inaccessible. Never been so tired and frustrated with game in sight. Fun though.
A couple years after that I accompanied my other brother on a mountain caribou and goat hunt again in the Yukon. Got rained out, fogged in, and generally weather-bound for a week. The first sort of clear day we climbed a moderate mountain after a big old billy. I nearly got very thoroughly squished like a bug when a boulder the size of a minivan came loose when I put my hand out to stabilize myself from falling off of the top of a knife edge cliff. That boulder rolled about a km or so destroying everything in its path. Spectacular and very scary. My brother and our guide had just passed under neath it while traversing the cliff edge. I was third in line and was just about to do what they did when it came loose. We quit hunting goats then, decided we'd had enough fun.
Caribou hunt was fantastic, and in country just as pretty and exotic. I like caribou hunting. We've even shot a couple caribou.
A few years later I went on a Yukon backpack hunt for Dall sheep and goats. Got a sheep after a 32 km packing expedition over the tundra, and then went goat hunting 'cuz I figured was all toughened up. The mountain beat me. The goats we could climb to were not shooters, and the shooters were inaccessible. Never been so tired and frustrated with game in sight. Fun though.
A couple years after that I accompanied my other brother on a mountain caribou and goat hunt again in the Yukon. Got rained out, fogged in, and generally weather-bound for a week. The first sort of clear day we climbed a moderate mountain after a big old billy. I nearly got very thoroughly squished like a bug when a boulder the size of a minivan came loose when I put my hand out to stabilize myself from falling off of the top of a knife edge cliff. That boulder rolled about a km or so destroying everything in its path. Spectacular and very scary. My brother and our guide had just passed under neath it while traversing the cliff edge. I was third in line and was just about to do what they did when it came loose. We quit hunting goats then, decided we'd had enough fun.
Caribou hunt was fantastic, and in country just as pretty and exotic. I like caribou hunting. We've even shot a couple caribou.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Great stuff Savage110, you know the deal, as do a good few here it turns out; Longwalker enjoyed your description of the adventures.
It's a trophy you can truly hang your hat on, not many species have horns that handy and seemingly purpose built for the task. Where we hunt them, it's pretty extraordinary, the largest goats anywhere inhabit the north coast ranges and in numbers that are hard to describe. Nonetheless at times you'll be utterly dumbfounded by how well a white animal can hide, often in groups no less. The mountains here are the easiest goat mountains, which will be hard to believe unless you've hunted them elsewhere, as the coast ranges are lower and rounder than the inland jagged stuff. The weather we get however is most definitely the worst.
I made a joke about not knowing why people hunt it repeatedly, truthfully of course I do, actually two of the three guys below are at least tentatively booked for coming years, and the one fellow not rebooked booked his friend with me. All want to do goat again, the unsuccessful guys are generally the same story too, if not firmly booked in touch to give it another crack. It's addicting, vexing, frustrating, thrilling, demoralizing, and altogether one of the best hunts in the world. The animal is only half of that, it's where they live and the challenges you go through to find them that make it utterly like nothing else. Sheep are close but the price tag sours that for the average hunter, goats in the realm of big game trips are the bargain deal right along with Muskox.
A few interesting final notes on goats I missed last time, as mentioned they're not actually goats, but another lineage of their own within the goat / sheep family, the only surviving member of it. I wish they had been recognized as such and given their own name, something more complimentary than "goat" as it really doesn't fit them in my eyes. They're much larger, hardier, and more beautiful than the name "goat" to me. Mountain Ćáag maybe, the Haisla word for them, would be better. Another interesting fact is every billy with the genetics for decent horn hits 9" or just over at 4 years of age, only the brutes, who are maybe 5%, keep growing. All that separates a basic Boone & Crockett and #10 all time is a pinky finger's length of horn, I've held both a basic B&C from my operation and a resident hunter's #10 all time (just happened) from the same region and even to me it's bizarre when held in each hand. 4 out of the top 5 all time Boone & Crocketts come from the North Coast BC, where I operate, the odd goat out is from the same mountains just across the border in Alaska.
It's a trophy you can truly hang your hat on, not many species have horns that handy and seemingly purpose built for the task. Where we hunt them, it's pretty extraordinary, the largest goats anywhere inhabit the north coast ranges and in numbers that are hard to describe. Nonetheless at times you'll be utterly dumbfounded by how well a white animal can hide, often in groups no less. The mountains here are the easiest goat mountains, which will be hard to believe unless you've hunted them elsewhere, as the coast ranges are lower and rounder than the inland jagged stuff. The weather we get however is most definitely the worst.
I made a joke about not knowing why people hunt it repeatedly, truthfully of course I do, actually two of the three guys below are at least tentatively booked for coming years, and the one fellow not rebooked booked his friend with me. All want to do goat again, the unsuccessful guys are generally the same story too, if not firmly booked in touch to give it another crack. It's addicting, vexing, frustrating, thrilling, demoralizing, and altogether one of the best hunts in the world. The animal is only half of that, it's where they live and the challenges you go through to find them that make it utterly like nothing else. Sheep are close but the price tag sours that for the average hunter, goats in the realm of big game trips are the bargain deal right along with Muskox.
A few interesting final notes on goats I missed last time, as mentioned they're not actually goats, but another lineage of their own within the goat / sheep family, the only surviving member of it. I wish they had been recognized as such and given their own name, something more complimentary than "goat" as it really doesn't fit them in my eyes. They're much larger, hardier, and more beautiful than the name "goat" to me. Mountain Ćáag maybe, the Haisla word for them, would be better. Another interesting fact is every billy with the genetics for decent horn hits 9" or just over at 4 years of age, only the brutes, who are maybe 5%, keep growing. All that separates a basic Boone & Crockett and #10 all time is a pinky finger's length of horn, I've held both a basic B&C from my operation and a resident hunter's #10 all time (just happened) from the same region and even to me it's bizarre when held in each hand. 4 out of the top 5 all time Boone & Crocketts come from the North Coast BC, where I operate, the odd goat out is from the same mountains just across the border in Alaska.
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buckbrushoutdoors
Regular
- Location
- fort saskatchewan AB/Edson AB
Ive hunted Mountain goats twice now, and I can honestly say out of all my mountain hunting I've done goats are toughest. Ive been on 10 bighorn sheep kills and they don't hold a candle to goat hunts. the biggest factor to goats being the toughest is the places they live. Not only do they live at the top of the mountain they only live on the steepest, jagged edged, almost impossible to climb faces of the mountain. But when you get up to there level its an accomplishment in itself. Oh and them big billies can take a pounding! tough bullets and shoot bone! Pretty cool to shoot a goat 340 yards above you and watch it fall past you for about 500 yards...
See this is a hunt that is in my day and night dreams! I have the back, I have the lungs, I have the sheer craziness to keep pushing my limits and experience in some mountains, just don't have the pocket book to support it anytime soon! Being a non-resident with all family in ON sucks!
That was a long way to say tagged for interest!
That was a long way to say tagged for interest!
Well , im really enjoying this thread!
Im stoked a few of you big time hubters have dropped in with some opinions.
It is an interesting realm that i am faced with..
Having not known much about MtnGoat and being offered a Hunt on them , i am liking what I read and the idea of hiking up the mtn, the challenges and the whte goat up on the cliffs is starting to Gee me up a bit.
When I was young an new to the Trophy Hunting /Big game hunting , Id guess Moose and a Big Elk were high on the List, for their Size of Antlers is impressive.
Through the Years you learn alot and actually learn through the challanging hunts and species and some time , like people mention above, the Trophy isnt the Headgear in this case, I think the trophy is being in Unreal Terrain , facing the challenges and with a bit of luck One walks out succesfull, and if not I dont think it would be the end of the world.. for 7 days + Wild BC... is a feat on its own!
Im stoked a few of you big time hubters have dropped in with some opinions.
It is an interesting realm that i am faced with..
Having not known much about MtnGoat and being offered a Hunt on them , i am liking what I read and the idea of hiking up the mtn, the challenges and the whte goat up on the cliffs is starting to Gee me up a bit.
When I was young an new to the Trophy Hunting /Big game hunting , Id guess Moose and a Big Elk were high on the List, for their Size of Antlers is impressive.
Through the Years you learn alot and actually learn through the challanging hunts and species and some time , like people mention above, the Trophy isnt the Headgear in this case, I think the trophy is being in Unreal Terrain , facing the challenges and with a bit of luck One walks out succesfull, and if not I dont think it would be the end of the world.. for 7 days + Wild BC... is a feat on its own!
A few years ago I hiked 15km and 3200 vertical feet to hunt goats...... for a weekend. My wife came along for the fun! 
We saw a really nice billy plus a couple others that were shooters and I dithered enough (billy or nanny, is it big enough) that we went home empty handed. I went back spur of the moment a month later to the same spot and managed to dislocate my shoulder crossing a river getting back in. Two months later I had a major argument with my surgeon over a third attempt.
A couple years later I took my 75 year old father goat hunting. We hiked for 8h up the mountain and I got to see one of the most hardcore bushmen in my life start to fall apart physically.
Don't start goat hunting. Once you do you will throw out all the Penthouse and think about white goats when you are alone....... Besides, it leaves more goats for me!
Here is some flat land. No jagged rocks, no cliffs, just a grassy 45 degrees.
Here is what ignoring a risk assessment gets you while hunting.
We saw a really nice billy plus a couple others that were shooters and I dithered enough (billy or nanny, is it big enough) that we went home empty handed. I went back spur of the moment a month later to the same spot and managed to dislocate my shoulder crossing a river getting back in. Two months later I had a major argument with my surgeon over a third attempt.A couple years later I took my 75 year old father goat hunting. We hiked for 8h up the mountain and I got to see one of the most hardcore bushmen in my life start to fall apart physically.
Don't start goat hunting. Once you do you will throw out all the Penthouse and think about white goats when you are alone....... Besides, it leaves more goats for me!
Here is some flat land. No jagged rocks, no cliffs, just a grassy 45 degrees.
Here is what ignoring a risk assessment gets you while hunting.
