Best of luck, it can be a tough unit to fill a tag. Getting to where the goats are is a signifigant journey in itself.
The genetics are there, if you find the correct areas there will be a couple of good billy’s. That said, you need to you get in far and high enough. I know of two goats that have been taken with bows a few taken with compounds from the unit. Two of them were pushing the 10” mark
Being from Montana, you should know without being told, the unit is thick with grizzly’s.
If at all possible fly over the unit for a couple/three hours early summer then again just before the season, it could save you weeks of hiking, riding, and glassing.
If you have horses great, if not get one, or get in good shape. Get in really good shape regardless. I have played Sherpa (nice way of saying pack mule) twice, placing different goat hunters on stalk-able Billy’s in unit 329, just north of 323. Each time, immediately after the hike in, we had stalk-able goats and the hunter was too tired to make the stalk before the Billy’s meandered away a couple of hours later. One of them was a solid 10” Billy in a perfect position to stalk. That hunter spent the next week hunting and didn’t see another Billy. He ended up taking a nanny with his longbow, still a great feat. Had he of been in shape, he had a good, doable, stalk, to get longbow close to a remarkable goat.
Topic: Montana Mountain Goat tag! (Read 1756 times)
