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Big Game Hunting => Out Of State Hunting => Topic started by: Bluemoon on August 18, 2020, 03:10:28 PM

Title: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Bluemoon on August 18, 2020, 03:10:28 PM: No reason for my question? Kind of like my Deer question. There are a few folks on here that I have never met and probably never will. However reading their posts and adventures. I have acquired respect for them and their responses. Others on here not so much, but thats life.
So opening day would you shoot these guys?
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: jrebel on August 18, 2020, 03:14:13 PM: Both look very tall and I really like the one that is flared out. Depending on area and quantity / quality of animal.......yes it would be hard to pass either on the first day. I personally would shoot the wider / flared out goat.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Stein on August 18, 2020, 03:14:58 PM: I'm judging for the specific areas in MT and WY I hunt. The one on the right in the bottom picture is a maybe. It's hard to get a good idea without watching them for a while. I'm not looking for anything in particular or a certain score, ideally I want a representative animal with nice symmetry and cutters, decent length and the typical heart shape - essentially a nice looking buck.

I'm not too keen on the tall narrow bucks, but they do tend to score higher from the length measurement which makes them desirable to some.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: h20hunter on August 18, 2020, 03:17:14 PM: Having never taken one, yup if legal to do I'm shooting.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: MADMAX on August 18, 2020, 03:20:24 PM: No
No mass
No prongs above ears
No ivory tips
Lots of antelope around Mt and Wy
Wait
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Ridgerunner on August 18, 2020, 03:32:32 PM: Both are on the smaller side, I'd pass and keep looking. Neither has very good length, prongs or mass, which are the three components to antelope. When it comes to antelope hunting I've learned whatever one tickles your fancy is the one to go after, if you are in a good spot you should be seeing plenty of bucks to look over and choose from. If there aren't very many to look over you might think a little harder about these two.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Karl Blanchard on August 18, 2020, 03:58:17 PM: Depends how many doe tags I have :chuckle:
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: jstone on August 18, 2020, 04:04:24 PM: No way
Smaller than my first Antelope.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: kselkhunter on August 18, 2020, 04:07:10 PM: Depends on the state. If WY, no don't shoot easy tags and plenty of antelope. If OR and you waited many years for the tag....yes shoot. As you may not get a better chance.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Bigshooter on August 18, 2020, 09:56:19 PM: Nope. Those are dinks.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: cbond3318 on August 18, 2020, 10:04:30 PM: I’d slam the trigger so hard on that second one. Then because I shot 3 ft over its back, I’d tell everyone I passed cause I’m looking for a little better age class.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Widgeondeke on August 19, 2020, 05:30:25 AM: Cutters too small.
As someone else stated: the narrow one looks thin, the wide one is decent horns except cutters
90% pass, especially since I would already have 2 does in the cooler :tup:
My doe unit opens a week before my buck unit 8)
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: opdinkslayer on August 19, 2020, 07:08:48 AM: Keep looking, from the limited views of the pics they lack mass & cutters necessary to put them in the 75+ goat category. Depending on where your hunting, take the time to look at lots of them. :twocents:
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Axle on August 19, 2020, 07:35:09 AM: Let me check with my freezer.......... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: andrew_in_idaho on August 19, 2020, 07:56:08 AM: Quote from: opdinkslayer on August 19, 2020, 07:08:48 AM
Keep looking, from the limited views of the pics they lack mass & cutters necessary to put them in the 75+ goat category. Depending on where your hunting, take the time to look at lots of them. :twocents:
I don’t even think either of those ones go 65 let alone 75. I’m passing

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Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: andrew_in_idaho on August 19, 2020, 07:57:38 AM: Quote from: kselkhunter on August 18, 2020, 04:07:10 PM
Depends on the state. If WY, no don't shoot easy tags and plenty of antelope. If OR and you waited many years for the tag....yes shoot. As you may not get a better chance.
I’m not wasting a tag in Oregon on either of these based on the bucks I’ve seen in that state and the time/money investment into drawing a tag. I’ll never have that problem though because I waited long enough I will never get an Oregon antelope tag

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Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: theleo on August 19, 2020, 08:12:13 AM: I'll put it this way. I had an easy shot on a buck similar in size to these first thing opening day on my Idaho antelope tag last year. I passed and have no regrets about it.

These are on the small side, and if you've never hunted lopes before, you'd be robbing yourself of the experience of messing with animals that are definitely one off from deer and elk by taking one of them opening morning. Unless this is a unit with hardly any antelope, there's no reason to be in a rush.
Title: Re: Opening Day Speed Goats, would you shoot.
Post by: Mulie87 on August 24, 2020, 04:57:36 PM: No. Small prongs and based on the unclear pictures, the horns aren't in the 12+ inch range for a decent buck. This is based on the pictures, of course I wasn't there and didn't see the animals in person.