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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 03:53:02 PM

Title: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 03:53:02 PM: Well, with the luck of the draws, I was one of three lucky recipients that drew a nonresident Idaho goat tag this year. With work and other summer obligations, I was only able to get back and scout once in August, but was to locate and observe a couple dozen nannies and Billy ‘s in a weekend trip with one potential shooter and one monster nanny.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241023/0fe0c2aa39164043c9eba1e84ecdbf57.jpg)
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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 04:29:49 PM: So with September and first week of October hunts out of the way, I’d the privilege to help three buddies with two big bull tags and a sheep hunt, and now it was time to prepare for the goat hunt. We planned a launch date of October 17 and packing in for a week. As we all know this was the first week of high Mountain Snows Throughout the West Coast. With Basecamp set our Friday morning view was a bit snowy.. we made the great decision to glass from Basecamp. Tell we all went snow blind, then snuck into town for burgers and beer.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241023/2f60a4e33c7180360a5d069e5f6d5b28.jpg)

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: LDennis24 on October 23, 2024, 05:52:41 PM: That Billy is a shooter!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:15:21 PM: With Friday evening temps raising and snow melting off we decide on Saturday morning we’re going to day hunt for a couple day. So as we pull out of Basecamp, the 1st miles is straight up through a rock cut to the first high mountain lake.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/6861675fcb755434f40f3816222c6456.jpg)

As we sat and glassed we were able to pick up a small Billy but not in the shooter or even interested category. So we continue along the Ridgeline and prepared to drop into the next big basin.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/8d7ab19cf69e1a8f454479db08bf0ecd.jpg)

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: actionshooter on October 23, 2024, 06:20:31 PM: Congrats just for drawing a tag!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: High Climber on October 23, 2024, 06:21:03 PM: Thats some beautiful and rugged country in there!… gotta be the biggest nanny in Idaho :chuckle:
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:23:22 PM: As we continue through the backcountry, stopping glassing and slowly picking that country apart, my hunting partner picked up a goat, moving through the timber. at over 1000 yards away all we could tell us it was a good goat, but we’re unable to get a look at his head or his horns before he bedded down.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/77041ac7d1fb5c40c473218aede75d01.jpg)

We made the decision that we were gonna go and set up on him just in case he was the Billie I’d seen earlier this summer 500 yards away from that spot. We figured due to terrain and approach angles that we can get within 400 yards for a possible shot.

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:35:17 PM: So after about an hour and a half of carefully Boondocking some timber pockets and rolling Rocky Bluffs we were able to get set up on the bedded Billy at 425 yards.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/89c9b687a0eb6443c0719612af0c5686.jpg)

With it being a calm mid afternoon, thermals were perfect and the Billy had no clue we were there.So we waited and we waited and he finally turned his his head and we decided he was the Billy from this summer and I was going to take him when he stood up.

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:40:28 PM: No ethics police
Please forgive the language and don’t question me on shooting I wouldn’t have taken the shoot if I wasn’t comfortable with. Im shooting a 6.5 PRC with a 156 gr Berger.

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:42:07 PM: (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/59c2d5d55e742cb895ee8d661e569639.jpg)
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As he lays through the spotter

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:45:42 PM: Dead goat over right shoulder on next ridge.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/3cc1ca848545ac7be596d22788b7a9e8.jpg)

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:49:41 PM: My crew and kill pics couldn’t of done it with out them (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/e83df06b099cb884c5b41be4009e5c9a.jpg)
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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:50:48 PM: So we got a little saying at the ranch we picked it up from a four year old one day is it if you’re gonna be dumb you gotta be tough(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/159c7a92f5e957f0816ca1042c109d9e.jpg)
That cut is the pack trail out

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:58:13 PM: This was a great trip overall pre-scouting paid off and having a good crew of friend and family made it just that less painless. From kill site back to camp was just over six hours.
I checked him at the mandatory game check for mountain goats and he’s just 10 inches with 6 inch bases(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20241024/4e14b9d9dea1f3eb2d54fed95b728351.jpg)

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:59:30 PM: Pre season scout trip

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: teanawayslayer on October 23, 2024, 07:10:47 PM: Great Billy man! Grats!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Karl Blanchard on October 23, 2024, 07:13:12 PM: Congrats and nice shootin! That 156 berger is wicked medicine!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 07:17:38 PM: Quote from: Karl Blanchard on October 23, 2024, 07:13:12 PM
Congrats and nice shootin! That 156 berger is wicked medicine!
Ya I’ve been really impressed with it so far.

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Tbar on October 23, 2024, 07:29:53 PM: Congrats! Awesome goat.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: HillHound on October 23, 2024, 07:41:08 PM: Awesome goat!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: jstone on October 23, 2024, 08:07:06 PM: That’s so cool.!! Nice Job
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Falcon on October 23, 2024, 08:18:14 PM: Great story, and a heck of a Billy. Love the long hair and thick horns :drool:
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: addicted1 on October 23, 2024, 08:25:35 PM: Thanks for sharing your hunt, hoping I’ll be able to hunt a goat some day. Awesome job and great shot, dude didn’t know what hit him.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Mfowl on October 23, 2024, 08:51:35 PM: Great goat! Congrats!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: RB on October 23, 2024, 08:59:51 PM: WOW great Billy, congratulations! :tup:
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Limhangerslayer on October 23, 2024, 09:07:11 PM: Nice goat! Congrats!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Dan-o on October 23, 2024, 10:18:10 PM: Epic!

Way to get it done.

Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: MLBowhunting on October 24, 2024, 01:19:20 AM: Well done and congratulations.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: 2MANY on October 24, 2024, 06:03:57 AM: Sweeeet!!!
Nice looking goat both horns, hide, and video!!!!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Jpmiller on October 24, 2024, 06:23:13 AM: Those are some great photos to remember a great hunt. Congrats! That’s my number one wish list hunt and I’m glad you made the most of it.

You got a Washington goat too didn’t you?
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: LDennis24 on October 24, 2024, 06:28:23 AM: Nice job man! He has a beautiful coat! Did you save his entire hide!?
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 24, 2024, 06:32:26 AM: Quote from: Jpmiller on October 24, 2024, 06:23:13 AM
Those are some great photos to remember a great hunt. Congrats! That’s my number one wish list hunt and I’m glad you made the most of it.

You got a Washington goat too didn’t you?
Ya in 2014 Goat Rocks
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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: LDennis24 on October 24, 2024, 06:54:29 AM: Goat hunts are hard on a guy. Your a little greyer now... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 24, 2024, 07:15:34 AM: Beautiful goat! Congrats
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 24, 2024, 07:21:02 AM: Quote from: LDennis24 on October 24, 2024, 06:54:29 AM
Goat hunts are hard on a guy. Your a little greyer now... :chuckle:
You’re telling me this one hurt a little lol .

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Sneaky Squirrel on October 24, 2024, 07:56:46 AM: Congrats! What a beautiful animal. Big country back in there, you earned it!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Buckjunkie on October 24, 2024, 08:26:28 AM: Congratulations!! Nice work!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: boneaddict on October 24, 2024, 08:44:02 AM: Congratulations! Looked like a wonderful hunt.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: ganghis on October 24, 2024, 08:47:29 AM: Awesome Billy. Congrats!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Cougeyes on October 24, 2024, 10:03:59 AM: Great goat! I shoot the same rifle/bullet - lethal combo for sure.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: throttlejocky20 on October 24, 2024, 10:07:55 AM: congrats! dream hunt for sure
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Naches Sportsman on October 24, 2024, 10:12:45 AM: Making that Mountain Range look easy and it sure isn’t easy country. Congrats on a beautiful Billy!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: hunterednate on October 24, 2024, 11:04:45 AM: What a goat! Congratulations and thanks for sharing. That's awesome.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on October 24, 2024, 04:10:01 PM: Quote from: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:40:28 PM
No ethics police
Please forgive the language and don’t question me on shooting I wouldn’t have taken the shoot if I wasn’t comfortable with. Im shooting a 6.5 PRC with a 156 gr Berger.

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Nothing wrong with that shot, dead right there.👍

Nicely done.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: pianoman9701 on October 25, 2024, 08:14:17 AM: Wow, great shot and great Billy. Congratulations!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: bearhunter99 on October 25, 2024, 11:40:19 AM: Congrats on a great billy. Beautiful goat!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Bushcraft on October 25, 2024, 12:01:11 PM: Congrats! Well done. :tup:
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Jpmiller on October 25, 2024, 03:28:27 PM: Quote from: Boss .300 winmag on October 24, 2024, 04:10:01 PM
Quote from: time2hunt on October 23, 2024, 06:40:28 PM
No ethics police
Please forgive the language and don’t question me on shooting I wouldn’t have taken the shoot if I wasn’t comfortable with. Im shooting a 6.5 PRC with a 156 gr Berger.

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Nothing wrong with that shot, dead right there.👍

Nicely done.

Maybe I’m just not super ethical but what was potentially the problem with the shot? Just that it was quartering to?
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: time2hunt on October 25, 2024, 03:47:36 PM: There’s some people on here that would question a frontal shot at 425 yards. And if I didn’t have good rest and bracing and very little wind I wouldn’t have taken the shot, especially on a mountain goat

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Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: fishngamereaper on October 25, 2024, 04:11:19 PM: :tup:
Awesome hunt man...love that country.
Beautiful goat... congrats
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: jackelope on October 25, 2024, 07:49:58 PM: Solid work!! Great billy. Thanks for sharing. They get in your blood.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Caseknife on October 25, 2024, 08:28:18 PM: Beautiful billie and country, a bit rougher than the Goat Rocks.
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: Jpmiller on October 26, 2024, 08:32:57 AM: Quote from: time2hunt on October 25, 2024, 03:47:36 PM
There’s some people on here that would question a frontal shot at 425 yards. And if I didn’t have good rest and bracing and very little wind I wouldn’t have taken the shot, especially on a mountain goat

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Well I’d say the result kind of speaks for itself, good shooting!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: jmscon on October 26, 2024, 08:50:58 AM: Great looking goat, nice work!
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Post by: mboyle0828 on October 26, 2024, 10:51:44 AM: Awesome photos. Congrats!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: ShaneTyTrey on October 27, 2024, 06:07:25 PM: Congratulations, everything looks awesome!
Title: Re: Idaho Billy
Post by: X-Force on October 27, 2024, 08:49:12 PM: Great goat!
Great shot.

Congrats!!