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This hunt took place out of Smithers BC with Copper River Outfitters. Day one in the morning was spent setting up a base camp and periodically glassing the mountain top when the fog lifted a bit. Finally at about six that evening the fog lifted enough to hike a half mile to check a promising basin. We found one great mature looking goat up in the cliffs about 3/4 way up the mountain so the decision was made to chase that goat in the morning. We left base camp at 8AM the next morning. Hiked for about three hours to the base of the mountain where we set up a spike camp and located the goat again. We then started on what ended up being about a four hour climb. We finally found the goat one last time and I was able to steady my MOA Extreme Summit 300 Win and quickly put two 215 Berger hybrids dropping him in his tracks at 217 yards. Not wanting to take a chance for him to tumble I added one more insurance shot putting him right back in his bed for good. The guides knew how treacherous the cliffs and terrain was the elected to have me stay behind for the recovery. After six hours of climbing and repelling down to the goat they finally made it to the goat to skin and quarter out. They finally got back to me at about 11:30. We then headed back down to spike camp where we arrived at 2AM. A quick meal of Mountain House we all tucked into our tents and slept until 9AM the next morning. After a quick breakfast we took the best pictures we could considering and packed up camp for a six hour hike with very heavy packs back to base camp. The mountain goat has been #1 on my list for years and years and I am proud to say I was able to kill an outstanding 6.5 year old Billy.

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I'm jealous


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Awesome, congrats!

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Congrats on an awesome billy!!

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I don't hate goats enough to consider using ropes to get 'em! wink Gnarly country!

Good job!


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Well done, my friend. You're getting it done lately!

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Awesome,sounds like quite an adventure.Must've been a long wait while the guides retrived it.

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A very long, wet, and cold wait for sure!!! Bet worth every shiver. Lol.


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Awesome,sounds like quite an adventure.Must've been a long wait while the guides retrived it.

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Thats some crazy good stuff!! Congrats to you heck of a trophy - should look great with that slammer blacktail buck you got:)


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Nice Billy. Glad you got to live a dream. Im leaving wed to go hunt moose with the same folks. I cant wait.


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Congrats !!

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Very nice!


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Beautiful animal they Joel, sounds like a great hunt...thanks for the post.

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Congrats Joel! Way to get it done. Thanks for sharing your dream hunt with us.


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Originally Posted by 7mmMato
Nice Billy. Glad you got to live a dream. Im leaving wed to go hunt moose with the same folks. I cant wait.


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Congratulations


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Very nice...a Billy is one of the best NA trophies. Congratulations!!

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Congrats,

A Mountain Billy is one cool trophy. Enjoy the memory.


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