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Amazing hunt!!
Thank you for taking us along...
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Great story and pics- never have really had a mountain goat hunt high on my bucket list until now!
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9 inches or so? I can't tell that kind of stuff being a flat lander and such.
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Excellent story and goat. Green with envy!
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Great write up and many congrats! I can only hope to be so lucky some day, but I believe your words below sum up things so well, precise, concise, that being on a mountain is always reward enough.... sometimes you get icing on the cake though...
Where he was stopped from rolling down the mountain....We shared a long, humble moment here. There was no hooping and hollering, or shaking my fist in the air. and I'm man enough to say my eyes were welled up for quite awhile. For knowing that in the ebb of my mountain hunting career, that this will be the last one. For being thankful of having a great life of freedom in the mountains, with countless great hunting adventures behind me. For amazing people that have supported me, family and friends that words can't describe. For all of the wild country I've had the privilege to be in and share with others.
I only can offer a similar instance some years ago, my first go in AK, and a small caribou bull, but my buddy simply said in very low words, up here, we are with God. Nothing else was said, but my vision did become a bit blurry.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Another Awesome one. Congrats
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Awesome hunt and pictures buddy! A well deserved trophy!! 6.5GAP does it again! 130 JLK?
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Amazing hunt!!
Thank you for taking us along... +1 Pat. Ive been waiting for this write-up and it was even better than expected!
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Awesome hunt and write up. Thanks for posting that. Congrats!
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Very Nice! And always a little better with an old friend...
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SWEET!! That's awesome you got to share another hunt with Alan... You gotta be running out of room on the wall now.
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Scenarshooter: Congratulations on the great trophy and that Hunt in such amazing country! I have had Mt. Goats spooked by Black Bears but not as yet by Grizzlies! I am glad it all worked out for you. My Hunting partner last year had to "spray gravel" on an unafraid Grizzly to keep it off of his in the process of being boned out Mt. Goat (near Livingston)! Again congrats on the the great adventure and thanks for sharing. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Simply awesome. Keeping tabs on your quarry and on the grizzly all the while must have really kept the blood pumping.
Very well written and great pictures too.
Thanks!
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The pic of you ,the goat and the mountains in back speaks volumes,just grand. Thanks for one of the best hunting stories I have read in awhile. Very cool indeed..
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Great story, great pix....thanks so much for sharing it with us. But.... There was no hooping and hollering, or shaking my fist in the air. How do you ever expect to have your own TV show???? ^^^^^^^^^^^
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What a great story and pictures. Congrats on a great trip. I'll never be able to do that, at this point in my life but I appreciate your sharing so I can take in some of the adventure, that your effort created.
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