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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: denali on November 09, 2009, 07:30:35 PM

Title: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: denali on November 09, 2009, 07:30:35 PM: We had a jet boat deer hunting on the Snake river 3-4 mi. west of Lyons Ferry, first time in that area for us. On the South side of the river on a cliff ledge is this goat ??
2 1/2 days, same ledge...faces right ...faces left.. lies down following day...same routine.

any way may not be a surprise too you goat experts but I had know clue we would see a goat there.
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Post by: agchawk on November 09, 2009, 07:48:00 PM: Surprise to me and I've spent a fair amount of time out there. Very cool pic...I may have to head out there one of these days to see if I can spot him/some.
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Post by: eastside boy on November 09, 2009, 08:41:18 PM: For me that is unheard of. :dunno:
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Post by: alecvg on November 09, 2009, 08:47:13 PM: I have never heard of them out there, but I am no expert so... :dunno:
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Post by: halflife65 on November 09, 2009, 09:13:11 PM: Kind of a surprising place to see a goat - weird. Like you said, maybe other guys know about them. I never heard of it, though.

I saw a 5 point bull when I was deer hunting out by Wawawai one time on the Snake. Never even heard of an elk out there and could just see the tip of it's antlers in the brushy bottom of a draw when I was deer hunting. Since I didn't expect to ever see an elk there, I had about a quarter second of having a heart attack before I could see the entire shape of the antlers. With just the tips visible and not able to see the rest of the antlers or the body of the elk until I got my glasses on it, I had a really brief moment of thinking that I was looking at a 40 inch wide deer. Literally a quarter second until I properly identified it, but thinking it was a deer my heart stopped, my stomach did a flip and I had to pick my lower jaw up off the ground and shove my eyeballs back in their sockets. :) Maybe it wandered in from the Blues?
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Post by: andrew_12gauge on November 09, 2009, 10:59:01 PM: i would say that is not a common place for goats, cool pic though
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Post by: firecrotch on November 09, 2009, 11:20:12 PM: i had just heard about that goat this weekend visiting some friends at their elk camp. they were telling me about it, pretty crazy and unheard of
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Post by: mtncook on November 10, 2009, 05:47:45 PM: That one goat has been there for about 3 years. There has been rumor to move him closer th others. Oregon has been releasing some recently, this last spring the number released was 18. They work there way north finding good habitat as move. Some stick others move on. We have been wathing #36 and #39 for awhile in my unit. Not all still have their orange ear tags. Have pictures of one others are just white dots. It is fun to see them and the country they call home. I don't think they move far in winter.

mtncook.
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Post by: wablkandtan on November 10, 2009, 09:57:21 PM: ive hunted down there at ayer boat launch for the past 14 yrs. i saw this goat about 5 yrs ago. there is a cattle ranch right above him in the flats. according to the cattle rancher the goat gets all swelled up when his cows come into heat. he said that it got so bad one year that the goat was going through the fences. so they loaded up the horses and went out and team rope the thing. they didnt hurt the goat but they loaded into a stock trailer and hauld it back to the bluffs. this is the gods honest truth. just look for the two old cattle ranchers with huge mustaches and ask them about the goat.
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Post by: denali on November 10, 2009, 10:42:04 PM: Thanks I knew somebody had too know something about him...that's a great story....he needs a companion ;)
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 10, 2009, 10:45:44 PM: cool thanks for sharin long ways away but looks like a nice billy
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Post by: longstevo on November 10, 2009, 11:44:01 PM: There was a mountain goat hanging around east of the Dalles, Oregon. Sometimes you could see him from 84. He was collared and came from the Wallowas. Last time I heard about him, he was wandering around some rock in Washington. :dunno:

Can't decide if he got a crazy idea and swam the Columbia, or trotted across that railroad bridge right there. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 10, 2009, 11:52:24 PM: i go to the dalles about 1-2 times a week i saw him almost everytime, i even got to watch him drink out of ine of the ponds. he was a great billy. then he just stopped showin himself i have heard 2 things fish and game tranked him and relocted him and the other like you said. he swam across the columbia and is now up in washington.
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Post by: blacktail luv on November 12, 2009, 10:52:09 PM: That is so weird I was fishing on the Klick last fall and there was a mountain goat above the fisher hill bridge about a mile from the mouth. He was in the same general area every day. I told some people about it and they said it had swam the columbia. The story came from a reliable source, don't know how else it could have gotten there, cool to see though.
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Post by: fishunt247 on November 13, 2009, 08:35:46 AM: I seem to remember a thread about the Klick goats last year. There's also the goat at the mouth of Dead Canyon. Boy that would be crazy to jump deer hunting. God goats are wierd.
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Post by: tonymoe on November 13, 2009, 10:36:25 AM: goats rule. I have seen all the ones talked on this thread. I have seen them in places that I rubbed my eyes and thought "wtf?"
Title: Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: longstevo on November 14, 2009, 12:38:13 AM: Quote from: blacktail luv on November 12, 2009, 10:52:09 PM
That is so weird I was fishing on the Klick last fall and there was a mountain goat above the fisher hill bridge about a mile from the mouth. He was in the same general area every day. I told some people about it and they said it had swam the columbia. The story came from a reliable source, don't know how else it could have gotten there, cool to see though.

I wonder if that was the Dalles goat. Sure are weird creatures. I guess when they get it in them to go somewhere, they just go.
Title: Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: Joe_Hunter on November 25, 2009, 03:38:40 PM: I heard that the wdfw tried to establish a goat heard a few year ago. Didn't give it much thought until I read this post. That's sure enough a goat.
:tup:
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Post by: 7mmfan on November 25, 2009, 06:14:29 PM: This one isn't so weird I don't think but I saw a couple a few years back up the Rattlesnake Creek drainage, right where the North Fork and the main stem come together. It was during late archery and there was a lot of snow up high. I was glassing a hillside for deer and almost looked right over them assuming they were patches of snow.
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Post by: longstevo on November 25, 2009, 10:06:47 PM: Hey 7mmfan,

Is that the Rattlesnake Creek just out of Husum?
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 01, 2009, 02:36:32 PM: News to me too. Glad to hear there's some in there though...
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 03, 2009, 09:45:31 PM: I was just below Darling Mtn side hilling some nasty crap.. A rock slide.... :bash: In a very heavy snow storm.... Come around a bend and ten feet from me is Billy.... I was like HOLY F!!!... And he was walking toward me... I started to back up and get my 43 ready at the same time.... Got back to where the rocks about ended.. This thing rounds the corner and keeps coming at me.... Looking at me like why are you on my trail!!!! I wanted nothing to do with him at this point...Who would believe that you had to shoot a billy in self defense... So I tried to run up the hill as fast as I could wile keeping an eye on him... I fell and figured this was it.... He just pick up his pace and walked right by me at ten feet or so.... Looking at me like dumb ass!!!! And I'm all breathing hard and sweating... He was cool goat.... I named him Scary.... See him every now and then around Eagles Nest...
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Post by: longstevo on December 03, 2009, 09:52:12 PM: Ha! That's an awesome story.
:rockin:
Title: Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: andrew_12gauge on December 03, 2009, 10:45:41 PM: Quote from: Kowsrule30 on December 03, 2009, 09:45:31 PM
I was just below Darling Mtn side hilling some nasty crap.. A rock slide.... :bash: In a very heavy snow storm.... Come around a bend and ten feet from me is Billy.... I was like HOLY F!!!... And he was walking toward me... I started to back up and get my 43 ready at the same time.... Got back to where the rocks about ended.. This thing rounds the corner and keeps coming at me.... Looking at me like why are you on my trail!!!! I wanted nothing to do with him at this point...Who would believe that you had to shoot a billy in self defense... So I tried to run up the hill as fast as I could wile keeping an eye on him... I fell and figured this was it.... He just pick up his pace and walked right by me at ten feet or so.... Looking at me like dumb ass!!!! And I'm all breathing hard and sweating... He was cool goat.... I named him Scary.... See him every now and then around Eagles Nest...

haha thats funny crap right there, ive seen quite a few goats up there in the bowl below eagles nest
Title: Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 04, 2009, 09:20:22 AM: Quote from: andrew_12gauge on December 03, 2009, 10:45:41 PM
Quote from: Kowsrule30 on December 03, 2009, 09:45:31 PM
I was just below Darling Mtn side hilling some nasty crap.. A rock slide.... :bash: In a very heavy snow storm.... Come around a bend and ten feet from me is Billy.... I was like HOLY F!!!... And he was walking toward me... I started to back up and get my 43 ready at the same time.... Got back to where the rocks about ended.. This thing rounds the corner and keeps coming at me.... Looking at me like why are you on my trail!!!! I wanted nothing to do with him at this point...Who would believe that you had to shoot a billy in self defense... So I tried to run up the hill as fast as I could wile keeping an eye on him... I fell and figured this was it.... He just pick up his pace and walked right by me at ten feet or so.... Looking at me like dumb ass!!!! And I'm all breathing hard and sweating... He was cool goat.... I named him Scary.... See him every now and then around Eagles Nest...

haha thats funny crap right there, ive seen quite a few goats up there in the bowl below eagles nest

:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Mt. Goat on the Snake
Post by: lamar_hunter on December 08, 2009, 07:20:57 PM: haha im working in a rock pit on the ranch where this goat lives. and yes the cowboys did rope it.