Thread: First blood and a proper trophy sized Billy

Your average farm goat seems to be able to get into the late teenage years without too much trouble so I would have thought they could make 20 in the right conditions. Down this way its a fairly harsh environment so to get to the late teens like the ones shot in this thread is pretty lucky I feel. In our region there is also a LOT of hunting pressure so even living one year is doing well... let alone ever being able to grow a good trophy head.

Last year I was out with my son and we saw a nice big billy. We both thought he was the biggest we'd seen in this region for ages - but still nothing like the head shot by dannyb or Flyblown. I think you blokes up in the North Island are luckier than us in that department. Certainly that King Country through to Whanganui is fantastic.