6mm Remington
Ammo Smith
- Feb 27, 2006
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My buddy drew his second Mountain Goat tag for the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness area. He was up scouting exactly a month ago and saw 5 goats near where we camped. There was a 10" billy in the group I was told. He did not shoot him because he was not haired up nicely yet. When we went in Monday there was an inch or two of snow.
Going in the visibility was pretty good and we had high hopes, but we could tell it was going to storm on us again. We got the tent set up as quickly as we could and it turned ugly!
Woke up to this and could tell it wasn't going to change anytime soon. Without being able to see, we were going to have an impossible time finding a goat unless we somehow walked on top of him.
It would clear enough once in a while to see for a few minutes, and then it would roll in again and we were down to 50 yards of visibility. It was pretty nice in this picture.
And this one not so good.
Wednesday and Thursday were a bust with no visibility. Went back in on Friday and it was hit or miss. Still managed to get some decent photo's. Could not find any goats on this day. Did see a Pine Martin which was pretty neat, and had a great time.
This is what it looked like down at the bottom roughly 4000 feet lower.
Got my first turkey back at his place. Nice fat young bird I am smoking tomorrow!!
Heading home saw some sheep with a couple little itty bitty rams in the bunch.
Had a great time and saw some more beautiful country. I am concentrating on my mule deer buck now that rut will be kicking in soon. I hope my friend makes it back to find a goat.
David
Going in the visibility was pretty good and we had high hopes, but we could tell it was going to storm on us again. We got the tent set up as quickly as we could and it turned ugly!
Woke up to this and could tell it wasn't going to change anytime soon. Without being able to see, we were going to have an impossible time finding a goat unless we somehow walked on top of him.
It would clear enough once in a while to see for a few minutes, and then it would roll in again and we were down to 50 yards of visibility. It was pretty nice in this picture.
And this one not so good.
Wednesday and Thursday were a bust with no visibility. Went back in on Friday and it was hit or miss. Still managed to get some decent photo's. Could not find any goats on this day. Did see a Pine Martin which was pretty neat, and had a great time.
This is what it looked like down at the bottom roughly 4000 feet lower.
Got my first turkey back at his place. Nice fat young bird I am smoking tomorrow!!
Heading home saw some sheep with a couple little itty bitty rams in the bunch.
Had a great time and saw some more beautiful country. I am concentrating on my mule deer buck now that rut will be kicking in soon. I hope my friend makes it back to find a goat.
David
