Average Archery Shot and Hunt Duration

[HornPorn]

Im strongly considering booking a mtn goat hunt and am considering bow instead of rifle. Many outfitters seem to tout 90-100% success rates even for archery. Are goats generally easy to get close to compared to other mountain game?

To those of you who have been there and done that, what would you say the average shot distance is?

Any how many extra days do you think (assuming weather is not a factor) does archery add on average to a guided hunt vs rifle?

 

[squirrel]

1st. 38 days 10 yards ( steep learning curve and apparently my brain is rather flat)

2nd. 3 days (actually in goat country) 20 yards

3rd. 3 days (actually in goat country) 20 yards

Bunch of rifle hunts as assistant, never more than 100 yards

There are a lot of variable factors in your time question, lots depending on the skills or lack thereof of your guide/outfitter and getting you into the country that holds goats and favours archery (wide open easy safe tundra aint it)

Goat hunting with a bow is all about the country they live in and the actual goats are just one part of it. Keeping your nerve and physical health in the crags is too much for some, for others no big deal. Clinging to a large rock and bawling like a little baby is not a memory you're going to treasure, but it happens...

Tremendous variability of goat habitat too. Sometimes they are in stony timber which is way different than classic cliff habitat, talk to the people who know where you are going.

In the first pic there is an XL billie in the middle of that rock face, challenging would be an understatement, even for rifle.

In the second pic there was tons of easy safe cover to approach within spear tossing distance.

Very different hunts just one ridge of separation.