Author Topic: Avalanche Gorge Goat 🐐 (Read 5782 times)

JPhelps · « **on:** October 18, 2020, 05:37:19 PM »

Waiting for their hair to come on was almost a bad idea. I was able to fight the weather and get it done.

Some memorable quotes from the hunt:
“Have you ever hunted goats on a volcano?”
“Next time you draw a tag don’t invite me”
“This hunt wants you to die way more than a BC sheep hunt”
“I’ve never hunted anywhere that’s this wet”
“At lease the trail doubles as a water source”
“Do we really need to kill a goat this bad?”

It was one of the hardest hunts of my life. The combination of weather and terrain made it difficult. The snow wanted us to fall off the cliffs, the wet brush/heather wanted to send us off of cliffs and the loose slick rocks also wanted us to die. The weather opened up on Thursday and was our only weather window for a while.

Throughout the day we saw 60 goats and even if we wanted to we couldn’t have killed a single one. We were hiking down the ridge and Cory Miller happened to look down and spotted a great billy bedded on the cliff 350 yards below us. We quickly confirmed this was a billy and one we needed to kill. These things are tough. He soaked up every shot and finally on the 4th shot I was able to anchor him to the cliff. We watched him for 20 minutes and he relaxed and stayed on the cliff. We went to town because we were going to need rope and some help to access the cliff.

Sometime during the night he decided to fall 200’ off the cliff and slide down into the creek below. It ended up being a god send because we would have had to repel onto the cliff he died on (didn’t look near as bad where we shot from). Couldn’t have did it without Cory, David and Ben there.

huntnphool · « **Reply #1 on:** October 18, 2020, 05:43:47 PM »

shmacker · « **Reply #2 on:** October 18, 2020, 05:44:06 PM »

Congrats, cool story and a great billy!

jackelope · « **Reply #3 on:** October 18, 2020, 05:53:01 PM »

Congrats, Phelps. He’s a stud. Let’s hear some measurements.

Katmai Guy · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2020, 06:00:10 PM »

That is a great goat sir! Congratulations.

JPhelps · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2020, 06:01:22 PM »

Quote from: jackelope on October 18, 2020, 05:53:01 PM

Congrats, Phelps. He’s a stud. Let’s hear some measurements.

Unofficially:
10” long and 5-6/8” bases

big iron · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2020, 06:23:38 PM »

Congrats nice billy, I'm having mine head mounted strait taxidermy and will be up in swains general store p.a. when done

DeerThug · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2020, 06:25:00 PM »

Nice!

elkrack · « **Reply #8 on:** October 18, 2020, 06:41:25 PM »

That’s a dandy! Goats are tough!

blacktailer · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2020, 07:10:33 PM »

Great work on a great Billy

Boss .300 winmag · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2020, 07:49:43 PM »

Nicely done.👍

RB · « **Reply #11 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:02:01 PM »

WOW nice Billy, congratulations!

fishngamereaper · « **Reply #12 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:05:57 PM »

sweet goat.

hunterednate · « **Reply #13 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:41:46 PM »

Yeehaw! That is awesome. Super goat.

X-Force · « **Reply #14 on:** October 18, 2020, 08:46:45 PM »

I’m glad you were able to get it done. Hell of a season!

It takes a lot of grit to put up with weather and conditions up there.

Mfowl · « **Reply #15 on:** October 18, 2020, 09:00:55 PM »

Congrats!

blackveltbowhunter · « **Reply #16 on:** October 18, 2020, 09:01:25 PM »

Congrats! Great goat

Limhangerslayer · « **Reply #17 on:** October 18, 2020, 09:20:23 PM »

Solid goat Jason, congrats!

MountainTracker · « **Reply #18 on:** October 18, 2020, 10:17:48 PM »

Fantastic goat!! The weather you guys had during that time was super windy and wet down here I can only imagine up there.

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MLBowhunting · « **Reply #19 on:** October 19, 2020, 05:25:46 AM »

Well done!!

bear · « **Reply #20 on:** October 19, 2020, 05:43:50 AM »

Nice work!

HikerHunter · « **Reply #21 on:** October 19, 2020, 09:57:30 AM »

Awesome goat Jason!

Fatherof5 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 19, 2020, 10:19:57 AM »

jstone · « **Reply #23 on:** October 19, 2020, 10:20:41 AM »

Nice goat

D-Rock425 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 19, 2020, 10:41:51 AM »

Awesome job congrats.

wheels · « **Reply #25 on:** October 19, 2020, 11:26:39 AM »

congrats beautiful billy

jowings22 · « **Reply #26 on:** October 19, 2020, 11:27:44 AM »

Epic! Congrats

DOUBLELUNG · « **Reply #27 on:** October 19, 2020, 12:48:57 PM »

JPhelps · « **Reply #28 on:** October 21, 2020, 09:53:11 AM »

Thanks everyone!!! Now that my nerves have had time to settle I’m ready to do it again.

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