macka
06-08-06, 07:42 PM
Today got up rather early for a goat hunt and drove the hour and twenty mins out to my uncles property out east in the bluebush and big open rolling hills. Well what can i say but it was one of those days :roll: Goats everywhere we looked, diddnt even get out the ute and saw about 50 coming into a dam across from where we parked the ute. Sure enough the wind stuffed up our stalk there as we got to 50m from the mob. That sort of set the scene for the day with 12 stalks in a row ither ending up with us getting spotted or the wind swirling at the last minute and sending the goats bolting.
Then at about 2 in the arvo after seeing over 200 goats so far we had a small billy come trotting into about 5m away and brownie punched an arrow through his chest putting him down quick. we took the legs and persisted with the rest of the mob only to get spied by another bloody nanny. (no pic legs were off before we remembered)
After a good think about our options we opted to go for a small mob just up on a hill in front of us that had not been disturbed all day. About half way to them brownie relised he had left his bow back at his goat and had to walk back and get it. While he was doing this i stalked the mob by myself with my not so trusty samick recurve. (well there is nothing wrong with the recurve only my shooting with it out past about 15m)
Well with only one bush bigger than 1 foot high i made it to 15m from the closest goat in the mob. A Brown nanny who was feeding directly towards me. I was sure she was going to feed right in on top of me and i'm still sure she would have if a billy back behind her haddnt seen me risen from his bed to warn the rest of the goats. So with the 55# limbs bending back to my anchor and the release i saw my goose feathered arrow sink into her chest front on almost up until the feathers. She only walked about 40m and layed down never to wake again.
On the way out we saw another 150* goats but diddnt have time to put in any more stalks. As i said it was one of those days and we would have had no less than 15 to 18 stalks for the day but with no luck and no help from the wind it was just the two nannies between us. With the hunting that hard it makes you apreciate taking one even more and especually with the recurve.
Here is my 5th goat with the trad gear.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010329.jpg
Here is brownie in the country we were hunting. There were about 100 orr goats spread out in mobs all over the hills behind his head. They were left unmolestered as we ran out of time.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010330.jpg
another view of the landscape from up on one of the large hills.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010331.jpg
And while sitting having a bite to eat this little fella came out next to us for a look. We diddnt have a clue what type of lizard it was so caught him and got a pic to ask you folk. Any ideas? It looks like a small what we call bearded dragon but it had light blue all under his belly and bright orange on his face.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010332.jpg
well thats it for the day. A Hamburger with the lot and an ice coffe on the way hope topped off the days hunting.. ahh geez life's good when your hunting :wink: :wink:
Macka
Then at about 2 in the arvo after seeing over 200 goats so far we had a small billy come trotting into about 5m away and brownie punched an arrow through his chest putting him down quick. we took the legs and persisted with the rest of the mob only to get spied by another bloody nanny. (no pic legs were off before we remembered)
After a good think about our options we opted to go for a small mob just up on a hill in front of us that had not been disturbed all day. About half way to them brownie relised he had left his bow back at his goat and had to walk back and get it. While he was doing this i stalked the mob by myself with my not so trusty samick recurve. (well there is nothing wrong with the recurve only my shooting with it out past about 15m)
Well with only one bush bigger than 1 foot high i made it to 15m from the closest goat in the mob. A Brown nanny who was feeding directly towards me. I was sure she was going to feed right in on top of me and i'm still sure she would have if a billy back behind her haddnt seen me risen from his bed to warn the rest of the goats. So with the 55# limbs bending back to my anchor and the release i saw my goose feathered arrow sink into her chest front on almost up until the feathers. She only walked about 40m and layed down never to wake again.
On the way out we saw another 150* goats but diddnt have time to put in any more stalks. As i said it was one of those days and we would have had no less than 15 to 18 stalks for the day but with no luck and no help from the wind it was just the two nannies between us. With the hunting that hard it makes you apreciate taking one even more and especually with the recurve.
Here is my 5th goat with the trad gear.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010329.jpg
Here is brownie in the country we were hunting. There were about 100 orr goats spread out in mobs all over the hills behind his head. They were left unmolestered as we ran out of time.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010330.jpg
another view of the landscape from up on one of the large hills.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010331.jpg
And while sitting having a bite to eat this little fella came out next to us for a look. We diddnt have a clue what type of lizard it was so caught him and got a pic to ask you folk. Any ideas? It looks like a small what we call bearded dragon but it had light blue all under his belly and bright orange on his face.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b255/Mackadebowhunter/P1010332.jpg
well thats it for the day. A Hamburger with the lot and an ice coffe on the way hope topped off the days hunting.. ahh geez life's good when your hunting :wink: :wink:
Macka