My Cimarron County Speed Goat

[Glock 'em down]

Me and my fam took a little trip out to the Oklahoma panhandle a coupla years ago...just because Beaver, Texas and Cimarron are the only three counties I have never been to. I can honestly say that I have been thru all 77 counties now.

Wow! I was amazed at how many of those damned things there were everywhere. Thicker than hops, I tell ya!

Nice job!

 

[Bulls eye]

Nice goat, I am getting the hankering for one myself.

 

[Slicktricktj]

This was on the controlled hunt in Cimarron County. I was able to get pretty close, and take a 140 yard shot. I spent over 4 hours stalking this goat over about 1 square mile area. He had two does and if one of them started getting to far from him, he would round her up just like a cow dog cutting cattle. I watched him breed her twice. I was on my second to last stalk, and she took off so he chased her about 3/4 to a mile away from me. I let them get over a ridge and took my time going to look for them as they had left the other doe closer to me. When I went back around the big hill, I found them standing at the bottom of a huge draw. I couldn't get close enough so I had to go back down and around the windmill ridge. When I came up the back side of it, I could only see his head. The doe saw me and she knew I was on the ridge so I just sat down hoping he would walk to her and give me a shot. While waiting, about 40 head of cow/calves came to me to see what I was doing.

Now when I deer hunt, I hate having cows come in, and felt like my hunt was ruined and I would have to start all over. I could not shoo the cows away and then just circled me. I remembered the old Indian trick of using the buffalo as cover to stalk, so I just stood up in the middle of all these cows and started walking straight at my goat, keeping a cow between me and him. He watched the whole time. When the cow started moving away to where I was out in the open, I just sat down with gun ready. He was still staring in my direction and wouldn't turn broadside. The cows followed me down the hill and circled me again, so I got back up and continued using them as cover, getting even closer to my goat. The cow moved, and I sat down. I could see all of him at 140 yards. I waited just a couple minutes before he finally turned broadside. I let the 120 grain ballistic tip 7mm-08 fly and he took 3 or 4 steps before falling over. Temp was about 90 degrees so I field dressed him, went and got my truck and loaded him up, putting ice in the cavity, and wrapping him in a tarp with another bag of ice on the outside. Went and tagged him and then caped him out and quarted him up in about 2 hours. Meat was cool and smelled very nice. Can't wait to get it back from the processor to try it for the first time.

You guys going to shoot a doe will not have any trouble getting one. Just be patient and be confident in being able to shoot 200-300 yards. The ranch I hunted had a lot of big hills and ridges, but a lot of the area out there is really flat and these things have great eye sight.

 

[AllOut]

i dont know about 200-300 yards but if one gets wiithin 70 im letting and arrow fly

 

[RedTape]

Great buck! Congrats. I'll be out there with DRC458 and Jeff3C in Oct. chasing a doe. If I can get a couple days off work I might run out there with my bow too.

 

[Deer Slayer]

I had a call from a friend who harvested a 14" X 14 1/8" goat yesterday. That is one h..l of a trophy.A goat over 13" should have any fella poppin his buttons with pride cause he done 1 fine job of harvesting.

 

[DRC458]

Good job! Thanks for the details, and congrats again!

 

[Deer Slayer]

One of the game rangers that drew out harvested a 15 incher today. WOOHOOOOO.

 

[frankos72]

This was on the controlled hunt in Cimarron County. I was able to get pretty close, and take a 140 yard shot. I spent over 4 hours stalking this goat over about 1 square mile area. He had two does and if one of them started getting to far from him, he would round her up just like a cow dog cutting cattle. I watched him breed her twice. I was on my second to last stalk, and she took off so he chased her about 3/4 to a mile away from me. I let them get over a ridge and took my time going to look for them as they had left the other doe closer to me. When I went back around the big hill, I found them standing at the bottom of a huge draw. I couldn't get close enough so I had to go back down and around the windmill ridge. When I came up the back side of it, I could only see his head. The doe saw me and she knew I was on the ridge so I just sat down hoping he would walk to her and give me a shot. While waiting, about 40 head of cow/calves came to me to see what I was doing.

Now when I deer hunt, I hate having cows come in, and felt like my hunt was ruined and I would have to start all over. I could not shoo the cows away and then just circled me. I remembered the old Indian trick of using the buffalo as cover to stalk, so I just stood up in the middle of all these cows and started walking straight at my goat, keeping a cow between me and him. He watched the whole time. When the cow started moving away to where I was out in the open, I just sat down with gun ready. He was still staring in my direction and wouldn't turn broadside. The cows followed me down the hill and circled me again, so I got back up and continued using them as cover, getting even closer to my goat. The cow moved, and I sat down. I could see all of him at 140 yards. I waited just a couple minutes before he finally turned broadside. I let the 120 grain ballistic tip 7mm-08 fly and he took 3 or 4 steps before falling over. Temp was about 90 degrees so I field dressed him, went and got my truck and loaded him up, putting ice in the cavity, and wrapping him in a tarp with another bag of ice on the outside. Went and tagged him and then caped him out and quarted him up in about 2 hours. Meat was cool and smelled very nice. Can't wait to get it back from the processor to try it for the first time.

You guys going to shoot a doe will not have any trouble getting one. Just be patient and be confident in being able to shoot 200-300 yards. The ranch I hunted had a lot of big hills and ridges, but a lot of the area out there is really flat and these things have great eye sight.

My heart started racing just reading this. Sounds like a ton of fun!

 

[firewalker600]

Congrats and thanks for the details. I get my chance in 22 days when I head to Wyoming for the first time. Never hunted speed goats, but I have two tags and read to give it a try. Great looking buck