Thread: A little goat hunt

Well done on thinking it through and doing the right thing. Too many don't. Plus one for trying to wring a goats neck. You'd have to be pumping a lot of iron. On the other hand I never shoot a domestic meat goat or sheep. Always put it on the ground on its side, your knee firmly behind the front leg with your off-hand under the chin pulling hard back on the neck to expose the throat. Using a sharp pointy knife, insert the point at just below the ear under the jaw-line, push through to the other side with the edge facing outwards and in a single second movement pull hard back on the chin to the shoulder while whipping the knife through the neck to completely sever the throat. You get the jugular, cut the resistant tendons/tissue and break the neck in one move. Keep holding the chin while your knee pins the body until bled out and kicking subsides. then step back. Its a very humane and quick kill. Never saw the knife into the throat. It is too slow, the edge can be hampered by wool and tough skin. Sawing in is a rough way to kill an animal. Pushing through and out is very quick. breaking the neck in the same movement breaks the spinal cord and feeling. Obviously in the bush you have to have your animal under full control and the correct knife on your belt in easy reach. Good luck that that. In the yard you stand astride the animal, hand under chin, back it into a wall holding against its natural surge forward to lift the front feet off the ground. It is now rendered powerless. Then use your strong hand to reach under and taking the off-side front leg tip the animal gently but quickly onto the ground pinning it with your knee, holding it under the chin. Then proceed as above. Others may do it differently but that's how I was taught and how I have done it for nigh on 55 years. Never caught a wild one tho. A good killing knife is a butchers boning knife. A skinning blade is next to useless and will always tempt you to saw inwards. Finally, a goat's neck is far harder to break than a sheep's.