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    Late Season Goat Success

    Happy Friday HBCers!

    Go to post #29 if you want to skip to the short story
    Go to post #36 for horn porn


    Alike others I enjoy reading of other hunters success and figured I would add a story this year to the site; seems to be alittle too much bickering going on now. I don't post much but it's nice to share good stories and goat stories successful or not are usually entertaining.

    I'm currently working with one hand (see story for details) so this will be slow going and potentially messy if I get too many brewskis in. I do tell stories fairly in-depth but I'll post the post# of the important pictures when I get there for those who want to skip to the goods.

    For the record I've been goat hunting since I was a kid but continually obsess about them. They're just the coolest animals BC has to offer and hunting them late in the year when they're haired up and rutting is hands down, IMO the best way to spend a cold sloppy day in November.

    Enjoy, and I'll try to not take excessively long on this. I'll be adding short blurbs and pics of any goat on the travels this year.
    Last edited by Kopper; 12-11-2017 at 04:48 PM.

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    always interested in a goat tales on a friday. looking foreward to a good read

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    x2 gotta love the stories, especially when pics are added

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    Throughout sheep season any goat sightings were few and wayyy too far away. With a November hunt planned and a Terrace draw burning a whole in my pocket (again) I wasn't going to take an incidental goat unless it was big and basically would fall in my lap.

    The second last week of the stone season was when I finally called it quits to overnighting. Too cold on the windswept hills and the long nights were making me go stir crazy being alone in the tent for that long. Putting on frozen boots in the morning has very little appeal.



    The last day of the sheep/goat season in the Peace had me on a 6hr hike into a sheep wintering area hoping for a big broomer. Unbelievably, 10 or 11 rams were spotted with a bunch of ewes. Not one ram was even close to full curl....wtf. I couldn't pick out any more rams in the buck brush after awhile so I headed for the truck.

    Getting later in the day now, maybe 1.5 hrs to the truck. Walking alittle hunched and not paying attention a quick glance of white on the canyon walls made me hit the deck. Quickly the gun and spotter came out.

    At 123 yards it was obvious this was a billy but he looked to be only 2 years of age. I watched him until dark, just to take in his mountaineering skills; never gets old.
    Last edited by Kopper; 12-11-2017 at 11:36 AM.

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    I'm going to enjoy this thread
    “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    Looking forward to it buddy!!

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    Keep er comin

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    I hate finding the good stories before they are written!!

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    Early November JSaw, the third amigo of our trio and myself were finishing up a trip to the Cranbrook area for whities. It's more of a yearly get together with some questionable drinks, an excessive amount of hotspringing and alittle bit of lazy boy hunting. Never the less we all had opportunities and had some horn on the ground. JSaw and I were supposed to go chase goats for a few days before he had to go back to work but he opted to go back to PG and regenerate instead. So, I went back home and dumped off my gear. Well the next morning I got up, loaded my gear and headed off to a valley in which I had a long overdue reservation with Oreamnos americanus....

    I was heading to my favorite place on earth. This was the valley that first popped my goat hunting cherry so many years ago; yet due to the nature of this terrain I had not harvested in this location yet. It's been 4 years since I was last here but my memory of that place always runs fresh.
    Last edited by Kopper; 12-09-2017 at 11:16 AM.

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    Re: Late Season Goat Success

    Just before departure I had the typical where's camp, where you're hunting and when to expect you home safety talk with my old man. He wished his bests and off I went.

    Arriving mid afternoon, it was cold, crisp and clear as a bell with only a skiff of snow. Very irregular weather for this time of year. A skiff of snow adds complication to this kind of hunt; you either want nothing or a foot plus to add some stability IMO and the frozen ground doesn't allow you to dig your feet in. On the plus side the temperature didn't allow a spec of fog to form making spotting a breeze. This trip ranged from a high of -6 to a low of -19.

    It took a few hours to set up camp and gather wood for the stove. For this style of hunting, camp for the last 3 years is a 10x12 deluxe wall tent and a light gauged stove from Cabelas to keep things toasty. Lonely for 1, perfect for 2 and slightly cramped with 3 people.
    Last edited by Kopper; 12-09-2017 at 11:50 AM.

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