Mountain goat uintah west unit

Sounds like you found something good!?!?!?

I don't know who has a tag this year but I've hunted it a few times (me, wife, son-in-law's dad) and wish I could again.

Zeke
 
What made it a top hunt for you guy's? I have enough points to draw. Was it just fun hunting and seeing goats? Did you fish in the area as well? Was considering another unit. Have an elk tag this year.
Thanks
 
huntin50 said:
What made it a top hunt for you guy's? I have enough points to draw. Was it just fun hunting and seeing goats? Did you fish in the area as well? Was considering another unit. Have an elk tag this year.
Thanks
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My reasons:
-Remote, no one around (5 days with not another person).
- plenty of goats and options to hunt tons and tons of billies to choose from.
- fishing was outstanding!! We river fish and the two back to back years we hunted it, we either got a bite or brought in a fish every cast with a little meps spinner. We only took one pole the first year and we all almost fist fought over the pole (joking kinda). The next year we had three poles. Haha
- other reasons are the other animals such as moose, elk (saw some very nice bulls), ptarmigan birds were all over too.

Just a fun remote hunt in some of the most beautiful mountains on the earth in my opinion.
 
mtnrunner260 said:
Doing a quick scouting run this weekend.
How likely will it be to find goats in same place a month later?
Thanks
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93.78% chance that they will be generally in the same area. Maybe not the exact same ridge but they'll be there.
Yes, they do travel and I've seen them move out of the area, cross a paved road and up on the other mountain.
That's what elk do more often and not too common for goats.

Zeke
 
Couple weeks to go.
Nice to see goats.
How much longer till those slick summer coats start filling out?
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littlebighorn said:
Yeh, and your's cost $5 and no points!
Good luck fellas. It should be a blast.
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Haha it still cost me $2205.00 and basically 16 points since mountain goat was what I was originally putting in for. So far I still haven't found anything to exciting just nannies and kids so guess we'll see what happens. Goat or not I have to be back to wyoming for deer Oct 1st ?.
 
Wyo_Roadhunter said:
Haha it still cost me $2205.00 and basically 16 points since mountain goat was what I was originally putting in for. So far I still haven't found anything to exciting just nannies and kids so guess we'll see what happens. Goat or not I have to be back to wyoming for deer Oct 1st ?.
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You know you can't Roadhunt goats. Right?

And I'd say your goat hunt should take priority to a Muley opener. I mean how many great muley bucks does one man need???
 
littlebighorn said:
You know you can't Roadhunt goats. Right?

And I'd say your goat hunt should take priority to a Muley opener. I mean how many great muley bucks does one man need???
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Yeah unfortunately ??. We did hike in 8 miles yesterday and finally saw a couple billies. Definitely not like a Timp tag where you hike in and see 70 goats on 1 draw. Definitely rough mentally only seeing 3 in that far but I guess all it takes is 1 haha. To answer the muley question I need all of them ???
 
Wyo_Roadhunter said:
Yeah unfortunately ??. We did hike in 8 miles yesterday and finally saw a couple billies. Definitely not like a Timp tag where you hike in and see 70 goats on 1 draw. Definitely rough mentally only seeing 3 in that far but I guess all it takes is 1 haha. To answer the muley question I need all of them ???
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Tough hunts make great memories, especially OIAL hunts!
And it will make you a Rock Hard deer hunter.
 
Younger billy, maybe 8". He's got a baby face.

You want a horse faced looking goat. A mature +6yr old billy will also have a body that is much larger than even a 4 yrs old billy, and nearly double a nanny or younger billy. It can be very difficult to judge a solo goat.
 
mtnrunner260 said:
Johnny-
Are you using his face being dish shaped instead of like a bridge as part of your assessment?
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That's part of it, makes it look like a horse. It's also just the distance between the eyes and the nose--it should be much larger than the length of the ears, and the horns should be longer than the ears too. There's also just an unmistakable "look" that an old billy has body and face wise. Giant linebacker shoulders, long and thick arched neck, sway back and potbelly.
 
Wyo_Roadhunter said:
Just remember they're all white spikes ?. I'm not going to be to picky with my tag on this one haha.
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Ain't that the truth! The trophy on a goat to me is 99.99% the hair. The difference between a young, immature billy's horns and a gagger book billy's horns is an inch or two in length and then mass. Pretty hard to gauge that and make the call when you're on the mountain looking at a fluff ball bouncing around the cliffs a few hundred yards away. And just about everybody who ever sees the mount won't have the slightest clue if you shot a 2 yr old 7.5" billy or a 10 yr old 10" monster. They'll just see the hair.

But on that note, do yourself a favor and try to hunt as late into the season as you can. Even just one more week can make a very big difference on the coat quality.
 
johnnycake said:
Ain't that the truth! The trophy on a goat to me is 99.99% the hair. The difference between a young, immature billy's horns and a gagger book billy's horns is an inch or two in length and then mass. Pretty hard to gauge that and make the call when you're on the mountain looking at a fluff ball bouncing around the cliffs a few hundred yards away. And just about everybody who ever sees the mount won't have the slightest clue if you shot a 2 yr old 7.5" billy or a 10 yr old 10" monster. They'll just see the hair.

But on that note, do yourself a favor and try to hunt as late into the season as you can. Even just one more week can make a very big difference on the coat quality.
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I didn't make it very long.... haha
 
Wow Remi,
That looks like an outstanding Billy!
Don't you know you are supposed to drag those OIAL tags out into weeks of hunting? ?
I guess finding a great goat in a place where he won't fall makes them hard to pass.
Well done and congratulations.
(Now you have the time to go shoot another giant Wyoming muley)
 
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