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Awesome story. What an adventure ! Thanks for sharing.
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What an awesome hunt & experience !!
Paul.
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Great trip and report. I've been waiting on this since you started in with the goats. Pretty cool to pack out a goat with goats.
The pictures of the goats just hanging around you and following you are awesome.
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That’s baa-aa-aa-aad azz!
Sorry. Couldn’t help it. Lol.
Really cool trip. Looks like the goats just take it all in stride.
I’m sure they just browse as you go? Any supplemental feed? How do you haul them, little stock trailer?
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Thanks for sharing your adventure, nice looking bunch of goats.
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I’m really hoping ExBio responds with, “nah, they all ride in the back of the truck”. Seven big azz goats could fit easy in a long bed.
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Absolutely fantastic hunt man thanks so much for bringing us along that’s awesome!
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Damn, Made my legs and lungs burn just reading the story! Nothing like a good hard hunt.
Congratulations!!
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Awesome story and congratulations!
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That’s baa-aa-aa-aad azz!
Sorry. Couldn’t help it. Lol.
Really cool trip. Looks like the goats just take it all in stride.
I’m sure they just browse as you go? Any supplemental feed? How do you haul them, little stock trailer? They all do ride in the back of my truck. Can’t get a stock trailer to lots of good trailheads so we found a rack on Craigslist and built some rails for it to attach to. They are getting a bit big for my 6.5 foot bed f150. There’s enough space but the truck is starting to squat. No feed needed this time of year, but maybe if we did this in a later season. But they still prefer to browse so I would probably just give them more time to feed as needed. So yeah they will browse when we stop and morning and evening.
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"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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Very cool,I had no idea people used goats for packers.Very neat,how are they when the shooting starts,skidish at all or do you practice with them near.
Sounds like it was a blast. Not skittish at all, I did tie them up for the final stock, except for one, but I do shoot near them on occasion and their instinct is to run to me for help. My partner said they just peeked their ears up at the shot when I was 20-30 yards above.
"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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It's a lot of work to put together a trip report like that. Thanks for doing so.
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Ex, great story. Thanks for your time,
The logistics, the Goats, The Terrain, Off the Charts Cool factor.
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That was an awesome hunt report. I really enjoyed reading this and your other thread on raising and training the goats.
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Not sure how I missed this thread, but what a great story.. thanks for taking us along.
That calls for a left handed fist bump bro
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Just now reading this too. Congrats on a great, successful hunt and thanks for a terrific write up.
Fear the crabcat.
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What a great story! As a mostly solo hunter I am thinking extended trips, what is the longest excursion you all have attempted? Any goat is a good goat,
mike r
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Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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I've been reading all your threads with interest. Thanks. Be Well, Rustyzipper.
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