Thread: Goat whispering

I've employed this technique on goat hunts over many years and it works very well. After the initial barrage you can frequently call them back for another round. One thing I have noticed is that some people are better at it than others... one guy I hunted with years ago sounded like a sick old nanny but he just had 'the knack' for it. Maybe he was a sick bastard himself. Haha. One time we spied a mob and he let out what sounded like a real poor excuse for a goat call... bugger me, the old matriarch came bounding around the slope and ran right into him. Literally hit him and he rolled down the hill a couple of metres. Shit he moved fast after that... screaming downhill like a little girl, yelling something about "Get 'er off!, Get 'er off!!" ... while I pissed myself laughing. The old girl stood her ground, eye-balled me from about 2 metres then snorted and buggered off. I decided not to shoot her, she deserved to live with that kinda attitude.

When my son was younger he was a "EXPERT LEVEL 10"... just a young voice I guess. Must have sounded like a kid. He could really pull the girls. (Maybe it's me who's a sick bastard?)

Never tried a game caller on them but I guess there is no reason why this wouldn't work. Goats are (to quote Yogi) "smarter than your average bear" and I've often felt that if you don't get the call right then they will run a mile instead. But if you nail it - and I assume this means you have to sound like one of their family group - it's great fun. You might also find that the bigger the mob, the better your chances. A small family group of 5 or 6 is possibly less likely to be sucked in by an intruder within their patch while a larger mob might not be able to recognise every call of their extended family. If you get my drift.

Give it a go. You have nothing to lose.