This is my hunting buddies dream hunt. Good thing he has mountaineering experience....

Great pics and great critters. A sure enough achievement.

This is another fun post.  I'd love to see more pics!

Stan Rauch in SD has taken at least one...also I think Dick Robertson took one last year (?) or maybe two years ago...I think.  And Dick did it with a sinew backed osage recurve too.  

I can think of a couple other locals...probably the same ones Walt knows.  

I got to hunt them one year.   I think I'm eligible to put in again this year....hmmm.  Hope it does'nt take me another 25 to get drawn!

Here's a pic when I had a tag last winter, fairly brutal hunt with cold temps, extreme winds, and working thru the crags in it.  Saw a lone goat slip over the edge and disappear. I hot-footed over there, knocked and arrow, and slowly rose up at the edge...  To see a nanny and kid at 3 yards or so.  It was fun. Saw some other goats but no shooting. Here's some pics from that trip.
.
My pack, bow, and ice ax a few yards from the cliff edge.

.
A different view.
.

.

And looking over the edge into the bowl.
.

.
I walk past and thru them pretty regular in the fall, but without a draw tag so they're off limits.  Might just take a trip to an OTC area next fall, I'll just wait and see what else develops.  Really neat critters.  A few more pics but from the fall not winter.
.
A young nanny at a few yards.
.

.
A big nanny at 30 yards or so.
.

This is a nanny I harvested this last October here in Utah.

cool thread

I have a friend that shot one in Montana in 2008 I think. The impressive part is that he had both knees replaced a couple of years before the hunt.

Stan Rauch took one in Colorado back in the nineties.  This was before he moved to Montana and then to South Dakota.

I was lucky enough to draw a tag in Utah last year and ended up taking a beautiful Billy with my recurve. It was a solo un-guided hunt and I have to say it was the adventure of a life time and I wish everyone could have a chance to hunt them with Traditional Archery Gear. Jim Eeckhout

I got one in 2006 in the Crazy mtns of MT. Avatar. Awesome hunt! Get to apply again in 2014. My son and I went backpacking into the Crazys this past summer. Saw 15 goats on day 2 of hike. I want that tag again!

Great thread!!

heres one of my hero's.  RIP  Paul

 

Two of my friend took 3 altogether.
One got drawn twice the other waited 17 years.
Mountain goat does not rank high on my "got to hunt" list, although they're quite tasty...

Worked with Lyle Willmarth out of Colorado for a summer, come to find out, he held the Pope and Young world record for 18 years with his goat out of Colorado

QuoteOriginally posted by Grizzlyhunter:
I was lucky enough to draw a tag in Utah last year and ended up taking a beautiful Billy with my recurve. It was a solo un-guided hunt and I have to say it was the adventure of a life time and I wish everyone could have a chance to hunt them with Traditional Archery Gear. Jim Eeckhout

Welcome Jim....helluva first post!!!n. Ang pics from that trip. Maybe you could tell be story and post some pics in a separate thread.

Love this thread. -My Holy Grail-

Randy Cooling took this one a few weeks ago.


http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o344/SAFARITUFF/image_zpsd2e65d16.jpg

James D Berry ?

Great posts and very awesome pictures.
I read a page or two back about nanny tags and was wondering how you tell the difference between a nanny and billy?

I drew this year here in Montana and am hoping to  make this list! It's my second tag in the area in 16 years and I'm looking forward to the adventure!

Anybody that wants to  share advice on what you found to be productive in how you managed to kill your goat, I'm listening!!!

Happy hunting,
Jason