we are headed into the back country to bow hunt some mountain goats
a lot of times goat hunting the retrieval is the real hunt and the hardest part
steep steep really steep
hey buddy
well the adventure begins we're uh headed up with kelly to go find a goat opening day archery
you got nice weather five animals to use and
off we go huh yes sir looking forward it'd be a good time absolutely
well headed in to do some goat hunting
getting down through a basin here get into camp a few miles and see if you can't see anything
some big glaciers in here yeah that climate change is real all the glaciers are melting
no climate change up here
and we were riding in and we saw some goats right over this edge so we tied up the horses
and we're gonna just take a look and see what's down there we're gonna have to wait for them to
come up though because too risky shooting them on the cliff they'll fall all the way to the bottom
we'll give it a go see how it works out we saw four i think the last one was a
billy it was a really quick look but we wanted to get the boys tied up before we
really dug in so there's gotta be more it has to be more yeah but they're just probably working
their way up for the evening to feed up on the flat yeah i saw a lot of poop riding in too
should be good
right over here is a chute and they may come up there's a big snow drift in that
chute i don't know
want to loop around
maybe come around and we'll look back
they already made us so
yeah let's just let them watch us leave
horse wreck he's over there one there just trying to pick up our yard sale
i was holding these guys and the
mules got squirrelly
i think i got everything okay
we just had a couple of trees
yeah no kidding huh
that rope burn
probably can't see it but it hurts like a son of a gun got him
okay i uh told kelly that if he killed a billy with his bow i'd jump in a freezing
cold lake and they're just
with some ice around it
yeah a little incentive you know watch me uh suffer a little bit
yeah it's just kind of like a bonus at the end of the day that you know the tag was awesome right
but when you're beating that many odds yeah like you need something extra
so i figured i would sacrifice myself and this isn't the first time i've done this
on my british columbia moose hunt we i did a little wager with brandon mason
and uh i think it was whoever kills the biggest bull has to jump in the lake
oh you know central bc in the middle october and it was cold oh yeah it was cold
yeah well cool well hopefully we can make that happen
i bet you are hoping so
well just trying to find goats oh we worked up this whole drainage and
just glassing and working our way up the rim and haven't seen anything all this head in so
we might go check another basin behind us
let's keep covering country and looking so we find billies
that's definitely a yearling
the other one's got some horns oh yeah
but his eyes are
about the same size as his bases yeah
a couple of goats just came out i think it's a big old sway back nanny in a yearling or
something
well first half day over saw nine nannies and kids maybe one billy
i don't know i think just nanny's kids but not bad for the first evening
see we get tomorrow
well day two we uh looked by camp here nothing this morning
we're gonna head down this other side and see if we can't find anything in another canyon here
and then if not we're out of here check new country
the sun's right in his face
tell us what just happened
we were we were glass in the rim
and uh had already looked that way several times and all of a sudden turned around and looked
and there's this goat that's just walked up out of the bottom onto the flat
so we're gonna let him get down in a dip and hopefully get a stalk on him
we got the upper hand we got the wind and the sun
I know
let him get over
he doesn't know what we are yet
i don't think he even knows we're here
we're just waiting for him to go out of sight
so we can sneak up
not quite over that ridge yet
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got an arrow in this billy it looks like a good shot
on any animal it looks like right in the pocket but i think it's just right behind the lungs
those goats must have their lungs farther forward in their shoulder
but we think it's probably a liver diaphragm area
and uh it's just gonna take him some time he went 40 yards and laid down
he's trying to wedge himself in the cliff
so it's just a waiting game from here on out really he's getting weak though
goat with a bow
yeah goat with a bow
pretty cool pretty cool
first stalk on a billy
6 40 in the morning wasn't it
yeah uh yeah 6 50 is when you arrowed him yeah
worked out good
first billy we've seen i mean for sure yeah billy yeah
oh
there he is slid down there a few hundred yards
a lot of times goat hunting the retrieval is the real hunt and the hardest part
the actual shot and the kill is probably the easy part this steep stuff it's not
going to be that bad because we have some shale slides and loose rock to work with
so i think we're going to be okay we don't have any cliffs to work with or to have to deal with so
he's in tact
yep
nice nice
there's that gland back there that
yep shines out there in the rut
yep small right now
casualty from the fall casualty from the fall yeah horn's made it pretty good little scratches
but he uh definitely took a fall off the top up there
summer hair is it's nice it's soft it's really wooly yeah it's really difficult yep dense
and then it's almost like an antelope hair on their mane yeah it is
it's kind of like bristly feeling yep
up here where they're at uh they can be a challenge later in the year
so i just decided if i could make it happen with a a bow then i would sacrifice the big long hair and
um be just as happy with killing it with a bow
yes more work yep more work
we gotta get this goat five yards up straight up this cliff where we can kind of have a flat
spot go ahead kelly and i'm gonna video you all right just kidding oh my god don't hurt yourself
well we got them gutless method out life-sized cape up there we got our feed sacks for
putting the meat in and uh load up our packs and up the cliff i mean it is literally straight up
above kelly's head there it's straight to the sun we're climbing for the sun
there goes the goat into the kite slide 'er all the way down the bottom
how's that pack gonna be how does it feel it feels good not too heavy nope good no all right
good ready to roll okay you lead the way okay go inbound to the sun
looks steeper going up than coming down
i think one step up right almost at the top i don't know about you kelly but right now
i'm wondering how cold that lake's gonna feel yeah all right i think that you do deserve me that
i'm nervous all right kelly told you to jump in that lake when we were headed out
on that goat hunt we had some issues and we're running late so i didn't get a jump in the lake
i didn't hold up my end of the bargain so now here we are like three or four months
later it's the first of december it's cold it doesn't look cold there's no snow this
is the high desert wyoming so there's no snow there's literally ice in this water kelly here
we go buddy this is for you because you made a heck of a shot on that billy oh boy here we go
oh so cold
oh my gosh that is oh i guarantee it i guarantee you that's colder than that lake up there kelly
how do you have my breath oh i'm dizzy i'm gonna pass out i feel like a heart shot antelope
about ready to tip over the cruisers failed me kelly
the droozling cruisers
the same cruisers i had on the goat hunt and they fell off out there
all right back to the truck