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

Whichever one is better table fare. If its a wash then I'd side with Sheep.

Brad;
Top of the morning to you sir, hopefully this finds you and your fine family doing well.

Thanks to you and Alamosa for the close up goat photos, they are indeed grand.

Honestly we've got goats around here that can be seen from a couple of major highways and they appear phlegmatic at best.

That said, when we've bumped into them up in the mountains on foot, they've never, ever allowed us to get as close as you and Alamosa did.

When we attempted to hunt them one time in the late '80's - and yes I had a mustache then - well I still do.... anyway I digress. When we hunted them on the Grand Canyon of the Stikine we came away with the thought that any goat hunt we survived was a successful one.

Thanks again for the photos and all the best to you and yours this spring Brad.

Dwayne

I can't believe it took 6 pages for someone to find humor in this thread's title. Lol!

Apart from the fact he was 10 miles from the nearest road, that's true!

Having had both, sheep by a mile in regards to table fare.

I decided that by the time I collected enough points for a ram tag I would be too old to hunt one. I can draw a ewe tag every few years and that has worked out well for me. They are excellent table fare.

I've noticed that with sheep there seems to be an inverse relationship between how high you go vs. how wild they are. I'll drive past the most tame ones grazing next to the highway. The ones around the trailheads and around the lakes that the fly fisherman hike into are pretty tame too. The really spooky ones seem to be those herds well above treeline. I've had them bolt away when they were still so far off that they were just specks - only able to be ID'd through binos.

Lots of sheep in the mountains where I hang out but I've had much less experience with goats.

Goat without a doubt....but not by much.

Aalf, did you do full body mounts on those? That stone would be a gorgeous full body mount.

No I didn't.....my living room was/is stuffed as it is.

aalf- Congrats on the sheep, especially the Stone's! IMO they are the prettiest of the 4. That one looks like a dandy!

Neither sheep nor goat has ever interested me so I'll take.... walleye.

As much as I want a Sheep, the Goat came first.

I have been involved with six successful Dall hunts (two being mine) and there is nothing more rewarding that I have done. We will be chasing sheep again this August and then goats for the first time in September and October. Really cant determine which I am more excited about the sheep or the goats!

Remember, goats pee in the water sheep drink...........

Aalf,

Beautiful sheep, congrats!

Yep, we goat hunters hunt above and beyond the sheep...

Great sheep, Aalf. The stone looks ancient per the annuli...what was his official age? I'm thinking about 11-12?

I've hunted/killed both. Sheep, hands down.

"Yep, we goat hunters hunt above and beyond the sheep.."

Doesn't mean the animals are there.

I've often seen sheep higher than goats in Alaska, on the same mountain.. And I've seen caribou higher than both! For that matter, a cow moose once. But she was just crossing to the next drainage, with sheep, goat, and black bear lower down.