Mountain Goat Hunting?

jaydog said:
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.
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Here is what ignoring a risk assessment gets you while hunting.
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Like I said, mountain goat hunts are all marshmallow roasts and campfire melodies.
 
Starting to Dig the Challenge, in that Photo of the Valley, are the Goats most likely atop to the Left of thr photo??

Im reasonably mountain fit , for our just below snow line hills.. dont really mind the rain and would wonder how Cold it be in October? Will it be Snow? Id rather not Hunt deep snow though for the White Goat.

Interesting fact tgat it isnt a Goat nor Sheepp, upon close inspection on google, they do look odd!
I would most likely Pack the 7mm08 up toward these Goats, most likely a Bonded premium for a trip like that.

Now i gotta find a pota Gold

WL
 
Dogleg said:
Some people claim that you don't have to be completely out of your mind to go mountain goat hunting. You can't trust these people because they will lie about other things too. They might be either sadly misinformed or crazy or sadistic, but either way they are wrong. It is a sport for lunatics. Have you ever been tortured to the point of despair, exhausted beyond belief and contemplating shooting yourself? Goat hunters dream of being that happy. That's a party to a goat hunter.

Sometimes it gets bad though. Thoughts are divided roughly into 1 % goats, 9 % falling and 90% just jumping and getting it over with.
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That's what my psychiatrist told me, well I don't remember what else he said. Do I qualify to goat hunting ?
 
RojamB21 said:
That's what my psychiatrist told me, well I don't remember what else he said. Do I qualify to goat hunting ?
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It's a start, but thats the problem. A start isn't good for much. A good shrink should be able to talk you out of it.

After just one session I'd don't know if I'd shoot another one even if it were drinking out of my garden hose. I'm cured;). The Dr says the nightmares will fade in time.

They say that if you close your eyes you'll forever be able to see the mountain. What they don't tell you is that right after that you wake up screaming.
 
Goat hunting... pppfffft. Nothing to it. Find gentle rolling terrain, sneak up to about 30 yards and shoot them with a muzzleloader. :)



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It's the packing out part that's the PITA!

RC

(wife's 2013 goat)
 
I love mountain goat hunting. I get out for a few hunts every year, but I'm spoiled in my location and probably have the least physically demanding goat hunt in my back yard. The pack out is always a pain, a large billy is a big animal, especially if you're carrying the full hide. I've 3 goats to my name, my last one green scored just shy of 51" and was only 3 years old. Incredible genetics!

I'm not really up to speed on the guiding industry, but I would agree in saying that Mnt. Goats are by far the best bang for your buck. I'm luck to be able to hunt them over the counter as a BC resident.
 
I was born into the mountain goat addiction. I remember my first goat hunt like it was yesterday, 27 years ago, belly crawling up to a loose shale ledge, peaking over, 50 yards bellow us were 3 goats, 2 bedded and 1 standing. A nanny a kid and a young billy, my dad whispered to me, "he's the one standing on the left". I chambered a round into my custom 6.5x55 ai that my grandad had built me, my first goat hunt, my rifles first goat hunt to. Loaded with a old hornady 160 gr round nose, "right in the middle of them shoulders" dad whispered. Amazingly, being my first big game animal, I was surprisingly calm, I knew what I had to do, and without hesitation, I squeezed the trigger, my bullet passed right through his shoulders and let out a puff of dust from the rock wall behind him, he stopped, but dident flinch, my dad put a "make sure shot" in the same hole, we waited about 15 seconds, the billy standing there on the edge of the cliff, the nanny and kid now standing at attention, watching the billy, "shoot again" dad said, "aim just below that hump", before I even had time to take my eye out of the scope, my bullet finished the billy with breaking his spine, luckily, on this goat, the fall was only about 100 yards, but into a nasty ravine. Being only 8 years old, dad and his friend who joined us on this hunt, shimmied their way down and took care of the work.
Like lots of old hunting stories, this was before we strafed packing a camera along, so the only photos I have are in memory.

I have since been chasing goats out of pure addiction lol. I may only have a handful of goats to my name, but I take pleasure in taking new guys out, and getting them hooked lol. The passed 6-7 years I have been on a quest for a winter 10"+ billy, and I probably won't pull a trigger again until I find him, and I won't miss a season trying :) I'll share a few pics that I have handy here from a few hunts.






If you ever get a chance to go goat huntin, take it! You'll either hate it, or will be hooked. Can't wait for goat season!!
 
I have never bin goat hunting would love to take my Brand-new 6.5x55 Winchester low wall on a goat hunt
When I worked at peace River coal I was on the blast crew we had lots of goat problems on that job .
The goat had a habit of woalking out on ar blast pattern and we would try and get them off with out them Messing up the fuses
 
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I went goat hunting for the first time last fall. It was life changing, I have never worked so hard on a hunt and been thrilled all the while. I took a 2 1/2 year old Billie. It had 8 1/2" horns and was really good eating too. Not a big trophy but I have never been prouder and worked harder for an animal. I will never forget it. You have to be tough as nails because the only thing getting up the mountain and around the cliffs, and back down are your own two feet and determination. If you get one with nice hair save all the hide and have it tanned. If you don't use it for a mount it can be used for all sorts of things. I can't wait for this fall. I did a little write about this hunt last fall if anyone cares to read it. It's called "my 2015 season".
 
156821 said:
I went goat hunting for the first time last fall. It was life changing, I have never worked so hard on a hunt and been thrilled all the while. I took a 2 1/2 year old Billie. It had 8 1/2" horns and was really good eating too. Not a big trophy but I have never been prouder and worked harder for an animal. I will never forget it. You have to be tough as nails because the only thing getting up the mountain and around the cliffs, and back down are your own two feet and determination. If you get one with nice hair save all the hide and have it tanned. If you don't use it for a mount it can be used for all sorts of things. I can't wait for this fall. I did a little write about this hunt last fall if anyone cares to read it. It's called "my 2015 season".
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I know the sum native women that will trade a Traditional hand weaved cedar Hat for a raw Mountain goat hide
It's used for Ravens tail and chilkatt weaving it's a amazing art form that almost disappeared so Evan save the scraps portion of the hide if you get a shoulder mount .
the horns make Beautiful spoons wen carved
I shood real look for a hunting partner that goat hunts soon befor I get to old lol
 
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shortandlong said:
Thanks for the interesting read guys, I love the mountains though I don't think I will get back to them

Btw it this for real?
http://m.indiatimes.com/culture/tra...ve-gravity-doesn-t-exist-for-them-251982.html

I knew they were an incredible animal but really?
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There are all sorts of species in there, but indeed, all of that is totally plausible. I've watched many mountain goats running along what at first glance appears a sheer face. Makes you double take.
 
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