British Columbia mountain goat hunt 2013

[Tundra Monkey]

Fantastic thread. Thank you very much for taking the time to post it Sir.

Awesome goat to boot

[Cowtown guy]

Outstanding. Thread of the year for sure.

Take note fellas, he's a rookie poster here and can post pics properly. Can you even imagine trying to read the whole story and having to open files constantly to view the awesome scenery pics that add so much to this tale?

Keep at it. I'll read any of your posts.

[dmcbride]

Best post I have seen by far. Thanks for sharing.

[Stop Staring at my Rack]

Great story!!! Thanks for posting!!!

[getasheep]

Thanks! Great post.

[warnniklz]

Originally Posted by pickrel pat

Waiting for you to meet a gerrygrizz now.

Or even a gerrySPEEDgoat would be awesome

[baptiste_moose]

Thank you very much. I really enjoyed this thread. That alot of work to post that. The small penis contest was hilarious. I'm pumped about your great success. The trip of a lifetime x2

[hayseed]

Thank you for taking the time to share your quest for a billy with us.
With all the pics, I was with you every step of the way!!
Huge congrats to you both, and once again thanks for sharing.

[Caleb]

Great post, great pics, great story. Thanks for sharing.

[Wolftrapper]

Awesome story and pics!
Thanks for sharing.

[Whitetail77]

Thanks for a great story and read. Now I'm 2 more hours behind on the work I was already behind on. LOL Congrats on an awesome adventure!

[bdub]

Finally had a time read that post to soak that all in. Awesome

[woods_walker]

Great thread. Definitely a good read and nice photos.

[warnniklz]

Here's a picture to give you a better idea of where my goat was. He is actually in this picture. You just can't see him.



Here's my goat still alive


So since Tranquilizer's goat was robbed by a greasy grizzly turd... he has nothing to hang on his wall.

But his b-day was on December 10th and fishmas was just around the corner, I got these done up for him.



Better idea of the pic above




The lady at wally world stayed an hour after she clocked out to help me. She said she didn't like hunting... but sure liked my pictures.

[Ceilidh69]

Fantastic posts - thanks for your efforts, that was really interesting and entertaining

[C Taylor]

Thanks for the pics an story. My last goat hunt I seen the mountain 11hrs in 10 days. Pulled a 50"er on the last afternoon. Beautiful when you can see hell when you can't
Best way I've had described to me on lookin for a shooter. Was that a big male goat looks like a white buffalo

[gerrygoat]

I hope you get a grizz tag soon and your 325 WSM gets to speak loudly, I did forget what you named her though

[warnniklz]

Originally Posted by C Taylor

Thanks for the pics an story. My last goat hunt I seen the mountain 11hrs in 10 days. Pulled a 50"er on the last afternoon. Beautiful when you can see hell when you can't
Best way I've had described to me on lookin for a shooter. Was that a big male goat looks like a white buffalo

I think not knowing exactly how big he was helped me. Goat fever did creep it.

Originally Posted by gerrygoat

I hope you get a grizz tag soon and your 325 WSM gets to speak loudly, I did forget what you named her though

Vanessa... got my fingers crossed

[trashheap]

Not very many posts I read the whole story right to the end without just skipping to the pics but yours kept me reading!! GREAT POST!!!

[CheeseBurger]

Nice work on the hunt and thanks for the epic story!

[Roughneck Country]

great pics!

[Sitting Bull]

Awesome thread! and I love the trip report and pictures. Well done!

[pickrel pat]

Pics or it didnt happen.

[twofifty]

Someone was bound to call BS...kidding.

[SonofDixie]

Dang...... how can anyone post their hunting stories after that! Fantastic. I'm guessing you keep a journal of your hunts? Thats pretty cool. Helps remember every moment. Certainly keeping an eye out for your posts!

[warnniklz]

Originally Posted by SonofDixie

Dang...... how can anyone post their hunting stories after that! Fantastic. I'm guessing you keep a journal of your hunts? Thats pretty cool. Helps remember every moment. Certainly keeping an eye out for your posts!

Not really a journal. I guess the thread was kind of a journal. I try to take lots of pictures. Except you don't really get many pictures while bush whacking through ****.

This was a run on thread over on huntingbc. I would check in on the goats at least once a week and take what pictures I could. Then I uploaded them to the thread and made notes on:
-where the animals were in location and elevation
-if they were moving and to and from
-the amount of animals
-the weather
-general time of day

I was out for a 9 inch billy, but since it was my last weekend out I was about to settle on any billy. I was talking to a buddy of mine and I remember saying "I sure am lucky". I was about to say "I sure am lucky to have got a goat that size". But my buddy cut me off and said "no puts that much work into something and gets that lucky".

Now I don't know if that's true in my case... but now it's something I like to tell people starting out at anything.

[SonofDixie]

What kind of camera you using? Couldn't imagine itd be very big. Thatd be tough to carry without smashing. But those are nice pics for a small camera. I'm looking for a tag-along camera to take huntin/hikin.

[warnniklz]

Originally Posted by SonofDixie

What kind of camera you using? Couldn't imagine itd be very big. Thatd be tough to carry without smashing. But those are nice pics for a small camera. I'm looking for a tag-along camera to take huntin/hikin.

The local Staples had a sony quickshot or something goofy, that they were clearing out for $80. Bought it ofc the clearance table. I used that one while I was out with quesnel kid and going solo. Used it very little when I took tranquilizer for his goat.

For tranquilizer's goat we used an Iphone with ottet case.

Some pictures were even off of a blackberry torch.

Bought the cheap $80 camera strictly for packing out hunting. If I broke it(which I ended up getting it wet) it wouldn't be a big deal.

Tranquilizer tried convincing me to bring the 7D up... but that wasn't happening.

[crazyfish]

supper cool story , great read , congrats on a great goat ! Thanks for sharing

[Pierre Tessier]

Great story! Ya went through a lot, I think a lot of us where right there with ya on the mountain.

Thanks for sharing that's a ton of work putting together a story and hosting all the pictures.