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Fun! #6931735 10/02/12
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,878 Bozeman, MT C Carl_Ross OP Campfire Regular
OP Carl_Ross Campfire Regular C Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,878 Bozeman, MT	*** If you hang out at Randy's too, please forgive the copy/paste I had some fun this weekend! It started out on an innocent Friday, with a pleasant walk through the A-B: Everything was very nice, and then for some crazy reason I decided to diverge from the trail, what was I thinking! In hindsight, trails are nicer for walking than not trails, I would stick to the trails if I was you. Anyways, after walking not on the trail for a while, I saw this small creature: Miller tells me it's a long tailed weasel, which sounded to me like a Rancid Crabtree name if I've ever heard one. I didn't mention this to him though, because I am polite and have good manners. From the spot with the weasel not on the trail, I saw a couple mountain goats, which I had a tag for! They were even further not on the trail! I started walking towards them anyways, because I am not smart. I got to the base of the mountain the goats were on, and I saw this goat at the bottom instead of the top: He was a billy goat for sure, but I didn't shoot him, because he was at the bottom and it would have been smart to do so, and I am not smart. So instead I walked to the top of the ridge to look for a goat there, cause I had seen one earlier and I heard the goats at the top of the mountain are better, because they are at the top. This is not true, but I didn't know that so I kept walking. I got to the top, and I could see a lot of country and a lot of goats, but not the goats I had seen when I started up the mountain. Rats! It was getting dark, so I picked the levelest spot I could find and laid down under the delusion I could sleep there. Just cause it's the levelest spot you can find doesn't mean you can sleep there, turns out, but you can try! During a nice night of not sleeping, I thought about how I probably didn't want to walk to where the goats I saw on the top of the mountain were, and how if I did walk there and shoot one, that it would probably come to rest not less than 2000 feet below where I shot it. By the time I walked down to it I would probably be bored and not care about goat hunting anymore, which would be a shame. Once it finally got light again, I got up and began to look for goats in spots I thought would only end in one of our deaths. Spotting a goat took about 12 seconds, because they are bright white and basically glow, and there are dozens of them in this basin. [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cVINUzReXrY/UGpyhXmbiHI/AAAAAAAABS0/IC5yiPcIMcQ/s800/21.JPG[/img] After the we both had breakfast, I noticed this one. [img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0Nyq_WeP3Jc/UGpyju4RF_I/AAAAAAAABS8/MQlRaIFx588/s800/22.JPG[/img] I though I might like to shoot him and take him home. Since I had a tag it was legal and everything. [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HVHT9gFnA6k/UGpylRWHDgI/AAAAAAAABTE/tXPMTon3oBs/s800/23.JPG[/img] So I did. Then I realized I had to go get him! Turns out it was unpleasant getting down to him from where I was. [img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PkYUS84pqts/UGpyocSEnAI/AAAAAAAABTM/AL34GUgdaHQ/s800/24.JPG[/img] Empirical results rule!

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Re: Fun! Carl_Ross #6931736 10/02/12
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,878 Bozeman, MT C Carl_Ross OP Campfire Regular
OP Carl_Ross Campfire Regular C Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,878 Bozeman, MT	I did anyway though, cause I was not yet bored. My lack of boredom paid off, and I caught up with the dead goat and was able to take my picture with him. Since I wanted to take this goat home, and he was now dead and couldn't walk, I cut him up and put him in my backpack. This was great! The less great part came when I had to put the backpack on and carry it out the way I came. I had heard of type 2 fun, but up until then I thought it was just a silly prank the big kids would play on us youngsters. Turns out its real! There were many times I decided to quit, but each time I'd realize that it wouldn't help any, so I'd keep going. After a while, it felt like I was in a children's poem about hunting, but the kids in the poem I knew were hunting bears, not goats. They must have been mistaken. After a while, despite all the wanting to quit, type 2 fun, and poems, I got to the truck anyway. I like the truck. Empirical results rule!

Re: Fun! Carl_Ross #6931747 10/02/12
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 28,277 Bozeman, Montana Mark R Dobrenski Campfire Ranger
Mark R Dobrenski Campfire Ranger Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 28,277 Bozeman, Montana	Awesome totally awesome! Thx 4 sharing Dober "True respect starts with the way you treat others, and it is earned over a lifetime of demonstrating kindness, honor and dignity"....Tony Dungy

Re: Fun! Carl_Ross #6931754 10/02/12
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,139 Likes: 7 Colorado S smokepole Campfire 'Bwana
smokepole Campfire 'Bwana S Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 46,139 Likes: 7 Colorado	LMAO, great story! And congratulations. A wise man is frequently humbled.

Re: Fun! Carl_Ross #6931784 10/02/12
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 30,291 Likes: 2 Brad Campfire 'Bwana
Brad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 30,291 Likes: 2	Outstanding Carl! “Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Re: Fun! smokepole #6931789 10/02/12
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 20,379 The Bozone, Montana Rancho_Loco Campfire Ranger
Rancho_Loco Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 20,379 The Bozone, Montana	Damn fine story and goat.. Originally Posted by captain seafire I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...

Re: Fun! Rancho_Loco #6931822 10/02/12
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming eh76 Campfire Kahuna
eh76 Campfire Kahuna Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming	Excellent! Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.

Re: Fun! Rancho_Loco #6931827 10/02/12
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 4,579 Eastern Montana ranger1 Campfire Tracker
ranger1 Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 4,579 Eastern Montana	Very cool!

Re: Fun! Rancho_Loco #6931828 10/02/12
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 13,357 Florence, Montana M MontanaCreekHunter Campfire Outfitter
MontanaCreekHunter Campfire Outfitter M Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 13,357 Florence, Montana	Very nice congrats Eat Fish, Wear Grundens, Drink Alaskan.

Re: Fun! Carl_Ross #6931830 10/02/12
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 24,653 Likes: 1 Midwest SKane Campfire Ranger
SKane Campfire Ranger Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 24,653 Likes: 1 Midwest	Carl, Congrats. Love the story, thanks for sharing! WWP53D

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Re: Fun! SKane #6931845 10/02/12
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 8,037 St Joe National Forest, Idaho S Shag Campfire Outfitter
Shag Campfire Outfitter S Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 8,037 St Joe National Forest, Idaho	Could be that was perfectly wrote! Congrats!! Loved the pic! beautiful country! Your Every Liberal vote promotes Socialism and is an attack on the Second Amendment. You will suffer the consequences. GOA,Idaho2AIAlliance,AmericanFirearmsAssociation,IdahoTrappersAssociation,FoundationForWildlifeManagement ID and MT.

Re: Fun! Shag #6931868 10/02/12
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 4,317 Anchorage, AK C cwh2 Campfire Tracker
cwh2 Campfire Tracker C Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 4,317 Anchorage, AK	Congrats. Excellent write-up, I can relate to a lot of that.

Re: Fun! cwh2 #6931923 10/02/12
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 11,273 High Country Colorado Tanner Campfire Outfitter
Tanner Campfire Outfitter Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 11,273 High Country Colorado	Awesome stuff Carl. Nice goat!

Re: Fun! Tanner #6931946 10/02/12
Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 998 West of the Mississippi S shootsacreed Campfire Regular
shootsacreed Campfire Regular S Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 998 West of the Mississippi	Thoroughly entertaining! Very nice goat! Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want!

Re: Fun! shootsacreed #6931965 10/02/12
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,818 HELENA J JeffP40 Campfire Regular
JeffP40 Campfire Regular J Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,818 HELENA	I echo LOCO. I think, therefore I am, conservative.

Re: Fun! JeffP40 #6931974 10/02/12
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 5,470 Likes: 1 jennings lodge, oregon Oregonmuley Campfire Tracker
Oregonmuley Campfire Tracker Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 5,470 Likes: 1 jennings lodge, oregon	That was an excellent read - that you for the great post and congrats on a great trophy!! "Rather hunt Mule deer than anything else" "Team 7MM-08"

Re: Fun! Oregonmuley #6932233 10/03/12
Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 14,712 North Shore, MA K kamo_gari Campfire Outfitter
kamo_gari Campfire Outfitter K Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 14,712 North Shore, MA	A+. Thank you for sharing.

Re: Fun! kamo_gari #6932239 10/03/12
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,788 Likes: 1 Ready Campfire Tracker
Ready Campfire Tracker Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 5,788 Likes: 1	Great country, plenty of game, top notch pictures, a tall tale told well. Thank you and great job all round. Member of the Merry Band of turdlike People.

Re: Fun! kamo_gari #6932242 10/03/12
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,906 Foley, Alabama D davidlea Campfire Tracker
davidlea Campfire Tracker D Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,906 Foley, Alabama	Damn! Damn, damn, damn!! Good going, great goat. What about the gun & load? Golden............

Re: Fun! davidlea #6932400 10/03/12
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,663 Indiana pointer Campfire Outfitter
pointer Campfire Outfitter Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,663 Indiana	Congrats! The picture of you and the goat is a good 'un! I've been on one of those "not smart" hunts...

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