Hawaiian Goat

[aftriathlete]

Just don’t shoot the big billies. Nanny and small billies are fine as long as you take care of the meat. Nothing to write home about but they eat fine. Nothing compares to Axis in my opinion. Worse case just make curry and it blocks any off flavors

Can confirm all this. Billy's are trophies, but man, they stink to hell. And the meat has the smell too. That said, I successfully ate the big billy I shot, it was stew meat in strong curry sauce in the crock pot. But the nannies I've shot are way less goaty, easy to eat. Still cook it in the crock pot either way, plenty of good crockpot recipes out there with strong flavors.

 

[aftriathlete]

Also, the Oahu goat hunting isn't awesome. It's not just VERY tough terrain and very exposed, and more often than not the goats are in unrecoverable terrain, but it's actually much harder to get in and out of that hunting area now. Back before end of the rifle season (ends 1 Nov) they changed entry to now no one can drive through the gate, you have to park down by the highway, which is bad for two reasons: adds more than a half mile each way to the route, plus directly next to the gate is a homeless camp and you can count on your truck getting broken into. Second big change is they made it much harder to walk up onto the ridge now, you have to go way out of the way that also now includes a crossing of a major (steep, cliffy) drainage. That one is fallout from some poachers shooting the rancher that works the area right there at the entrance. My goat hunting days here might be over. If traveling to hunt, go to Big Island for sure, there's goats EVERYWHERE there, walking around the airport in Kona even.

 

[ProAlpine]

Just don’t shoot the big billies. Nanny and small billies are fine as long as you take care of the meat. Nothing to write home about but they eat fine. Nothing compares to Axis in my opinion. Worse case just make curry and it blocks any off flavors

Copy that. But a Euro Mount of a a big billy would be cool!

Funny, everyone raves about Axis deer as being the best but if I had to choose I'd pick my Muleys from Idaho any day. The Axis, like all game meat, need to age IMO otherwise they're chewy. And unless you've got the time or strategy to age them and bring them home, you're in for a mouthful.

Here in Idaho I age my deer 4-5 weeks and the difference is very noticeable.

 

[diverc18]

Copy that. But a Euro Mount of a a big billy would be cool!

Funny, everyone raves about Axis deer as being the best but if I had to choose I'd pick my Muleys from Idaho any day. The Axis, like all game meat, need to age IMO otherwise they're chewy. And unless you've got the time or strategy to age them and bring them home, you're in for a mouthful.

Here in Idaho I age my deer 4-5 weeks and the difference is very noticeable.

I never really have had an issue with them being chewy or gamey. Sometimes I age them for a week or sometimes I will clean and vac seal it same day depending on how busy I am. Never eaten a muley so I can’t compare unfortunately.