BC mountaingoat adventure

[J from Denmark]

Btw, when we climbed down we heard those gzizzlies fighting again and it sounded like it was on our mountain too !!!

Day 8
It was a GOOD day !
Oh boy, Troy had a very speciel place in store for us...

[Bushman]

Fantastic story and pics!!!

[mmgrode]

Cool stuff! Look forward to the rest.

[SouthMDShooter]

this is an awesome story!  

[mmgrode]

...must be bedtime in Denmark;)    :rolleyes:

[Al Kidner]

Keep it comming J. Mountain Goats is on my list !


In Oz, al

[snag]

I can fall asleep much better to buglin' bulls instead of fightin' grizz!!!!

[PowDuck]

Great story. Thanks for sharing.

[steadman]

WOW!! Thanks for sharing, I need to go to BC, what an awesome looking place. This is great!

[Bjorn]

I admire your ambition traveling all the way from Copenhagen to Vancouver and beyond! Great story too.

[Tuttu]

Great story and pictures.  Thank you for sharing.

[tradtusker]

great stuff! sounds like you should go back and hunt GRIZZ!

[J from Denmark]

Oh man this was one of the worst climbs yet !
One hour on a LOUSY "trail"  climbing over and under fallen trees all the time
Then 2 hours jumping from rock to rock in an active creek with lots of small waterfalls. Troy said " Dont trust the rocks, they can be slippery ! "  And he was right for sure !!!!
THEN the actual climb on a steep mountainside with loose shale

[Guru]

Wow, what an adventure!!!!

[J from Denmark]

We finally reached our goal, a nice saddle between two mountains. We were drenched with sweat as usual, so we changed our shirts and sat down too eat our sandwiches. Suddenly we saw a glimpse of white. further glassing confirmed that 4 goats were slowly feeding along the rigdetop on the saddle.
Troy said he was pretty sure we could get to a good ambushspot in front of the goats. We snug over there and discussed the situation.
It was a good ambushspot as the goats proberly wouldnt be able to see me before they would be in range. My best option was to sit behind a little rigde with no cover at all and just rely on my asat camo.
So I waited..and waited...and waited..SUDDENLY I heard a couple rocks falling close by and my heart started pounding madly...nothing happend..after a minut or so two billies walked by 80 yards down the mountain, darn it !! maybe this just aint going to happen I thought, just then I hear a slight noise very close by..thump thump thump goes my heart and here comes a couple of black horns in weiw behind the little rigde I am sitting behind, the horns comes closer and closer and right before the goat steps out in front of me I come to full draw.
The goat is below me only 11 yards away and at a 40 degree angle downward. It stops, looking up but not looking at me..
Still at full draw I really try to pick a spot and when the right sightpic is there my fingers let go. The arrow just dissapears in the thick white fur.
The arrow strickes a little higher then I wanted but the goat only runs 40-50 yards before it gets really weakkneed and dissapears behind a rigde. I grab my arrows and run over there just in time to see the goat thumbling down the mountainside.. YEEEHAAA I yelled high on adrenalin
The big nanny goat slided down the mountain the same way we were supposed to go down ! how lucky can a guy get !?
We backslapped and talked about the shot. I was pretty sure I had taken the aorta and maybe even shot through the shoulderblade and that was excactly what happend we found out later.
Went down to the goat

The arrow went through the shoulderblade , nicked ribs in and out and passed all the way through just hanging on by the feathers before falling out.

We took pics, skinned the goat and started packing out with hide and meat
 

[Jack Shanks]

Great going Jacob!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations on a fine, hard earned goat!!!!!!!!!!

[Bert Frelink]

I kew it, I just knew it!!!
Congratulations J, you are going to treasure this for a long time, nice work>
Mine was a Nanny as well, man it seems like yesterday.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Regards, Bert.

[Mike Yancey]

J, this has been the best, most well done story that I have ever followed here, great job and congratulations on the adventure and such a fine animal.
Mike

[CheapShot]

Great story, and outstanding pictures. Thanks for sharing your trip with us. I'm glad you got your goat. Iceing on the cake for an adventure of a lifetime.

[Tique]

Very well done J. Story, pics and ending are the greatest; congratulations!