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Buster and crew,
I watched a group of 4 billies for the entire day before the opener. I woke up on the opener to still see them low on the mountain and in no-mans land. The hill I was on was still huntable and I was yet to determine if a likely target was available where I stood. So I traversed a high mountain craggy ridgeline area at first light, 4am looking around. I was bumping goats as sentry nannies were alerting every white critter of my bad intentions. I sat down around 10:30 A.M with the Swaro and looked over the Billie group again. They were working their way up the mountain and settling into a crag adjacent to snow to bed for the hot portion of the day. I busted out my iphone and checked the weather forcast realizing that making a play on them would take a two day weather window. They were across a valley with a fairly technical approach. The weather was mine. Three and a half hours latter found me above the goats on the same ridgeline. They hadn't moved. I had the wind in my favor. I got above them by using the ridgline as cover, continuing to use the wind. I decended above the most visible goat bedded in the snow. I used a lazer rangefinder and got exactly at 100yrds above him. I got prone, set up my GoPro, Glassed him with my Swaro for a minute. Then settled in with my .416 Alaskan shooting 350 TTSX at 2,250 fps. The rest is history. I busted him down completly removing all bones. I caped him including only taking out the skull cap. The weather was so dry and nice that the cape was fairly light and clean when I packed it. The meat load was tremendous! It took me three days to extract it. The first two were spent in the alpine and each night I'd pack it in high elevation snow. The last day was a marathon push out a Brown Bear infested valley. I felt like my chest was being crushed after hauling that weight around for so long. I've got about two hours of GoPro footage from this hunt. Included are a few scenery shots from the area. This was a five day hunt. I covered about 14 miles.
Archery hunting goats is indeed possible. Using all the fundamentals of a good stalk being used produces exciting results. I've been close to em over the years. I just like a powerful bang stick in brown bear country.
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Buster and crew,
I watched a group of 4 billies for the entire day before the opener. I woke up on the opener to still see them low on the mountain and in no-mans land. The hill I was on was still huntable and I was yet to determine if a likely target was available where I stood. So I traversed a high mountain craggy ridgeline area at first light, 4am looking around. I was bumping goats as sentry nannies were alerting every white critter of my bad intentions. I sat down around 10:30 A.M with the Swaro and looked over the Billie group again. They were working their way up the mountain and settling into a crag adjacent to snow to bed for the hot portion of the day. I busted out my iphone and checked the weather forcast realizing that making a play on them would take a two day weather window. They were across a valley with a fairly technical approach. The weather was mine. Three and a half hours latter found me above the goats on the same ridgeline. They hadn't moved. I had the wind in my favor. I got above them by using the ridgline as cover, continuing to use the wind. I decended above the most visible goat bedded in the snow. I used a lazer rangefinder and got exactly at 100yrds above him. I got prone, set up my GoPro, Glassed him with my Swaro for a minute. Then settled in with my .416 Alaskan shooting 350 TTSX at 2,250 fps. The rest is history. I busted him down completly removing all bones. I caped him including only taking out the skull cap. The weather was so dry and nice that the cape was fairly light and clean when I packed it. The meat load was tremendous! It took me three days to extract it. The first two were spent in the alpine and each night I'd pack it in high elevation snow. The last day was a marathon push out a Brown Bear infested valley. I felt like my chest was being crushed after hauling that weight around for so long. I've got about two hours of GoPro footage from this hunt. Included are a few scenery shots from the area. This was a five day hunt. I covered about 14 miles.
Archery hunting goats is indeed possible. Using all the fundamentals of a good stalk being used produces exciting results. I've been close to em over the years. I just like a powerful bang stick in brown bear country.
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