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Congrats! What a hunt.
Nicely done, with a classic cartridge.
Photos show the country you hunted was tough! You earned that goat.
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Congratulations and thanks for your post. It was good reading about your adventure.
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Excellent write up and pics.Congrats! The perfect cartridge.
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Congrats Roundoak, good looking billy. Still have my old 77R in 7x57,solid performers. MB
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Once again the 150 gr Nosler BT teamed up with a Ruger 77 7x57 has proved to be good Goat medicine. The Ruger 77's are battleship grade guns. With a 7x57 you almost had a 280. 
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Congrads! super Billy! was my dream hunt, sitting here with a messed up knee, just hopeing to deer hunt at this point!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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Congrats, beautiful goat!
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Nice writeup. thanks for sharing
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Never hunted goats and doubt I ever will but love to read reports like yours. Congrats on what looks to me like a really nice one!
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Congrats, I'm struggling with a bit of envy! Great story, beautiful country, and an awesome trophy! Congrats Again! memtb
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Super nice billy there. Interesting that your guide had you moving in on a critter by yourself... not a move I'd make but to each his own.
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Super nice billy there. Interesting that your guide had you moving in on a critter by yourself... not a move I'd make but to each his own.
Tanner I can't remember doing that either when I guided for goats but then again not all hunters are created equally which I'm sure you have found out by now lol. I would bet they had a good reason to do so.
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Absolutely right. Roundoak definitely looks like a more than capable hunter and hiker, there's no question about that! Billies in the Chugach are no joke, and that's a dandy.
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That is a nice one for sure. Sheep have the big horns but goats have that amazing coat and are as tough as nails. I hunted Stone sheep where there was a good population of goats and noted that when the goats wanted to bed where the sheep were the sheep moved off. My friend has a video of a grizzly trying to take down a goat and the goat more than holding his own with the bear.
Roundoak, most here don't know what it is like to hunt in goat country, I tip my hat to you on doing it successfully at least a couple of times now.
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