Thread: Taranaki Goat hunting

Yea mate keep hitting the DOC blocks, there are shit loads and shit loads of goats here in the naki, I went for a walk to one of my spots on sunday (on DOC land) took my mate who is new to stalking, we came across a nice hine as intended, it couldnt have been an easier shot, 100m away and out in the open, he somehow kooked it and completely missed lol i think the adrenaline kicked in and he just couldnt keep his rifle still, so after that i told him we will just go for goats, knowing his adrenaline would be far more contained on a goat, and sure enough over the next 3hrs he didnt miss a shot we ended up eradicating aprox 8 goats all at distances between 10-300m, goats i have found will lap up the sun and are happy to lay out in the hot of the day in the open, youll usually see them in the open from around 10am once the sun gets some heat in her, then they begin heading bush again around 5pm, im sure someone will round me up for saying this, but goats are stupid, theyre sensors are pitiful compared to the likes of deer, i have sat to the side of a track and had a nanny eating from the bank right next to me, i have crept up on a large billy sun bathing grabbed it by the horns and wrestled it to ground, every time i go stalking i find myself in amongst the bloody things, in Taranaki we need to eradicate more goats to allow more feed and new growth for our low deer populations, goats breed like crazy and we as hunters really do have a responsibility to keep those number at a low, good luck mate