Thread: Chamois general catchment advice

Originally Posted by planenutz

First you find a catchment full of steep shitty gullies in a mountain range to your west (mainly because there are sweet bugger all mountain ranges to your east that are above water) then within that catchment of steep shitty gullies you find the steepest, shittiest gully where the only thing likely to live there is the occasional tenacious shrub with no nutritional value at all. Then you go there... because chamois like to live where you think no sane animal would bother hanging out. If its steep, great. If its overhanging, even better because chamois like to wear crampons.

I see photos of chamois happily eating grass on farmers paddocks but the bloody things are never there when I go hunting so I've come to the conclusion those are photoshopped to lure me out of the comfort of my couch. Somehow they get word I'm coming and all bugger off up into the bluffs, blowing me raspberries from altitudes reserved for airliners.

The rewards are of course worth it. How else do you get to learn about avoiding forests of speargrass? Or how ice remains in shaded areas well into summer? Or how quickly your legs turn to jelly when you look down? But they're a beautiful animal to watch, huge fun to hunt and bloody tasty to eat. Of all the animals we have the privilege to hunt I find chamois to be the most rewarding. Them, and tahr.

Enjoy. And good luck.

Oh, and post photos/story of your success. Or failure.

Gold. I will ensure I have my compass the right way up in order not to venture too far east. The lack of a boat will help immensely with this venture