Thread: I Just want a bloody goat!

if i can get my shit together Al ill take you out in a few weeks

I got my first goat about 600m from the Remutaka hill rd trig. Have seen plenty in the Cross Creek area, but you need to be 200m from the rail trail which can be gnarly.

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@Tahr or @craigc might know a spot for a goat close to welly's?

Failing that just catch a ferry and if it doesn't break down you will be in goat central

Best of luck buddy and most of all don't give up, it will happen !!

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If you want to travel for goats head to Wairoa area. My daughters partner has a family owned forest block there where they shot 5000 goats between pine rotations (using P cat AR15's and leaving the goats to rot). Mahia Peninsula has goats everywhere you look. The whole area stinks like billy goat when the wind is right. I don't know the situation about public access but there are so many goats in the area they are a driving hazard.

I must be one of the few people that like hunting goats in the bush. Mainly because of geography and lack of deer I suppose, but also because they aren't difficult to hunt a lot of the time. That said, bush hunting can be tricky and if the goats have been heavily culled, they can get skittish. My family lived on goat meat (and fish) for a few years at least. Not because we had to, but by choice. Ethical, organic meat etc. I select the kids and young nannies to shoot and usually pass on the big stinky billies unless they have a trophy head (few do in my area). A couple of trips to Taranaki was an eye opener in terms of number of animals. The OP could drive a little way north for some guaranteed action.

Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

Any and all of the Oronga side creeks have plenty of stinkies.Take plenty of ammo and lean forward til your barrel has got the heat haze mirage shimmering.Another handy Wgtn spot for them with easy 2wd access is a small DOC block out the back of Makara at Cape Terawiti.Good luck

What DOC block is this? Can't find it on any map or reference to it ?

Sorry@Dan88,you could be right about the Terewiti Block tenure.I was shooting for DOC some time ago and that block was on our beat.I was lead to believe it was a DOC reserve come about from the land swap deal from Terewiti Stn(ex Lands and Survey)approval to install the wind farm.Various scrubby reverting gullies fenced off from Stn grazing to provide Kiwi habitat.If I'm wrong and it's only in DOC stewartship,then hit up Terewiti Stn for access.Not as high numbers as over in the Rimutakas/Orongas

Originally Posted by MB

I must be one of the few people that like hunting goats in the bush. Mainly because of geography and lack of deer I suppose, but also because they aren't difficult to hunt a lot of the time. That said, bush hunting can be tricky and if the goats have been heavily culled, they can get skittish. My family lived on goat meat (and fish) for a few years at least. Not because we had to, but by choice. Ethical, organic meat etc. I select the kids and young nannies to shoot and usually pass on the big stinky billies unless they have a trophy head (few do in my area). A couple of trips to Taranaki was an eye opener in terms of number of animals. The OP could drive a little way north for some guaranteed action.

I am another that likes goat hunting/shooting. Probably knock over 2-300 a year at the moment north of Napier. Take a bit of meat when people want some but I find its great for improving my off hand shooting and shot placement being a target rich environment.

Plenty over corner creek way.
I just got back from south taranaki and the place is crawling with them!

Living in south Canterbury I actually MISS having goats to hunt.wallabies fill in but just not the same.its a few hours drive to anywhere that is supposed to have hunt able population of goats for me.

Up here. https://www.alltrails.com/trail/new-...aka-trig-track

Go straight/rightish at the last turn left to the trig. You will pick up a sort of route that leads to the big basins in the eastern creek head waters. Don't drop off the leading spur too much.
Or go past the trig and you can drop to the right and into the some nice country.
Always goats there some where.

Be respectful of day walkers on the track, eh.