Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Sheep or goat? If you had to pick.

Obviously, tags for neither grow on trees

If you drew a tag that let you hunt a Rocky Mountain BH sheep or a goat in the lower 48, which would it be?

Big horn sheep are amazing animals, but ever since I was a kid, I have had a thing for mountain goats.

I think I'd have to hunt a big billie. Maybe.....

What say you?

Damn you. I want both.

That is hamburger vs prime rib, of course it would be the Bighorn...

Hah!

So Shrap, I'll put you down as "undecided"

Bighorn, not that I don't want to hunt goats someday.

Sheep!

Sheep here as well.

Sheep for sure. I was lucky to take a goat in 2009.

I need at least one ram before I die.

Gotta be a goat for me. Hoping to make it happen in 2016 in either BC or SE AK.

Sheep, but not by a huge margin. I also have a soft spot for big goats. A mature billy is an incredible animal, to me.... I was lucky to see some bigguns this past summer and fall....

One from Colorado, excuse the crappy pic.... He was bedded up on a ridge overlooking 2 big basins at around 13,000 feet...



Tanner

Well, I don't mind seeing you guy's goat pics...

Got a lot of sheep points and zero goat.

Sheep, no question for me.

Good question, here in BC, both are available to we residents, however, the populations are down due to government mismanagement and the vile behaviour of the GOABC.

I have a slight preference for RMGs, but, have never had the fascination with these that so many foreign "trophy" collectors do; my preferences are BIG Elk, Blacktail Deer and Blue and Ruffed Grouse.

IF, I have any more mountain hunting in me, not looking good, I will probably go after a good RMBH at home in the Kootenays. I KNOW where they ARE, it's climbing/packing up there that is the issue.

Sheep... I actually have little to no desire to take a goat.

I do like hamburger too....

All things being equal there is no contest whatsoever; bighorn sheep.

Of course all things aren't equal and goats (at least from the cursory investigation I've made) seem to be easier tag-wise even if "goat country begins where sheep country ends".

My son's wanted a goat (literally) since before he could talk, and I've wanted a bighorn since I was a kid. We'll likely meet halfway and do an auodad hunt as we both put in for both those native species and wait... and wait...

Damn Shrap! A goat and a sheep.

Hoarder.

I think part of my desire for a goat is just the fact I've seen a lot of sheep, but rarely goats.

I've probably seen at least 100 or more sheep for every goat I've seen.

Brad, and others, curious as to your desire for one over the other?

MM, I get around goats all the time. To me they're like white golden retrievers. They have disarmingly sweet dispositions... part of me feels like I'd be shooting one of God's pets.

The headgear does nothing for me. I have no desire for a mount. Don't care to have a white couch throw.

I love watching them in the wild, but just don't really care to shoot one.

Here's a billy I came upon 8 or 10 years ago after a long day of elk hunting. I was coming down off a mountain and ran right in to this fellow. He was sound asleep nestled against a tree. I stood looking at him 6 or 8 feet away, when he finally became aware of me. He slowly rose from his bed, stretched like a big dog, and just stood there studying me. We watched each other for at least 5 minutes until he finally decided he had business on another part of the mountain and ambled off:

Great photos!

The white couch throw is another of the reasons I might prefer to go after a goat. Awesome looking pelts! But as you stated their head gear isn't exactly awe inspiring.