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first scouting trip the Wolverine fire exploded and the whole unit was closed. Over the course of the next month my daily ritual was to get online and check on the status of the fire, which usually left me feeling anxious and depressed. Finally with less than a week to go before the rifle opener(Sept 15th) a small portion of the unit opened. WDFW contacted me and gave me 2 options. Option 1: Hunt the tag and hope that access improves Option 2: Refund points and money and hope to draw again. Overwhelming response from Huntwa and friends was to go for it, so I #1 it was. I planned on giving the hunt the first go after archery elk season, but coaching football, selling our house, moving out, and preparing to build along with the fact that the only land access was still closed delayed my first trip. Finally the rest of the unit opened and last Wednesday the forest service reopened the road... game on. Preparing to leave Friday hunting partners I thought I would have started dewindling. As I left home latter than expected due to some changes in plans it was just me and the first hunting partner I ever had, my dad. We made it to Lake Chelan at about 2:30am and got to sleep by 3. After a quick 3 hour nap we were headed up Shady Pass road getting our first look at the country. The first few drainages we glassed result in zero goats. Around 11:00 we talked with a passing muzzy buck hunter who told us that he had lived there his whole life and had never seen a goat on that ridge. His suggestion, hit the lake with a boat or backpack out to Pyramid Peak(which we were prepared to do). With that some doubt entered my head, but I told my dad that we needed to hunt out one more ridge where the 2013 tag holder had harvested his goat and saw another good billy. Heading out that ridge it didn't take long to spot 4 goats about a mile away and thousands of feet below us. Looking through the spotter I was pretty sure they were 4 billys, but it was impossible to evaluate horns. As my dad stepped to the spotter the only fog on the lake moved up the drainage and hide the goats. With the goats hidden we decide to hike over the rock outcropping 50 yds away and look of the end of the ridge. As I stepped on to the rock outcropping two goats busted out of nowhere at 20yds. I held my shot not knowing how big they were. The two goats split with one going down and the other staying on the ridge top. At 300 yds he stopped and we got the spotter on him for a few minutes before he disappeared. After talking we decided he was worth going after. As a slowly crept in the goat reappeared as I cut the distance to 150 yds, what I thought should be a chip shot.In short, I managed to shoot just low and the billy took off around the rock knob. I quickly moved to a better vantage point where I caught the billy moving down the hill at 5o yds and put a good shot on him. He took a few steps, started to wobble, falls over, and disappears from sight only to hear crashing and see him rolling, finally getting hung up in a tree. As I walked down to him all I could think is that he was going to be beat up and broken. I was feeling sick to my stomach. Finding him his head was tucked under himself, only to further the anticipation. As I rolled him over I realized he was a solid goat and the fall hadn't been too bad. He had the cut near his left eye and a raw spot behind his right shoulder near where I had shot him. The best part of the whole thing was having my dad with me and him being able to watch the whole thing play out. The whole hunt was made even sweeter knowing that it was just my dad and I. As luck would have it the goat turned out to be a solid 10 inch billy. This was a once in a lifetime tag that turned into a once in a lifetime memory!
Post by: RadSav on October 13, 2015, 10:31:15 PM
Are you doing a full body mount?
I need to get healthy again and give them goats one more shot. They are one of my all time favorites to hunt. It will be my biggest regret if I never put one on a pedestal.
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my dad put my brother and I in for OIL tags since we were 8,9 years old too, we got a pile of points built up for OIL tags and I cant thank my dad enough for doing that...
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