Thread: Images of the full moon & goats

@quentin @6x47 RECOVERY
Goat meat is the most eaten meat in the world and is very delicious! My wife would rather eat goat than venison! I even like eating the mid-aged Billy goats, "Stinkers" as they are affectionately known! Once you get rid of the skin and genitals they don't smell too bad! The Billy meat is generally tougher, and stronger flavors, but if you age it, dry brine and slow crock pot it, it can be tender and delicious! There are heaps of good goat recipes in books and on line.

Because my wife likes goat, I do try to recover some that I shoot. The most I've ever got in the back of my ute is eleven. They were only 50 - 200 metres from the pylon track on clear, scrubby, farm land.

I didn't shoot any of the goats on the cliff the other night, mainly because I only had my 22LR firing Winchester 36grn HP HV 555 and whilst I, and many other hunters, have kill goat with 22LR (my last two were Winchester Subsonic 42grn HP. Both one shot kills but only at 6 & 10 metres) , they goats were at 15 - 50 metres and I didn't want to risk chasing wounded goats around on a cliff at 2 in the morning! Also some farmers do an annual goat round up and sell feral goats to Taylor Preston's. There is can team of experienced goat herders who will come out an do the muster. In this case I need to checker with the farmer, a regular client, that the goats were actually on his land and what his plans were around mustering them. I couldn't check that at 2am, apparently some people are asleep then?

I checked the next day and have been given the green light to shoot one or two, for the freezer, "Or the whole fricken lot if you can get them all!" Good challenge! So I'll be taking the triple duce for a workout and parking my ute at the topof the cliff with a very long rope attached! LOL piece of cake. And I'll be doing it in daylight, dusk, two clock in the middle of the night!

Roll on goat curry!
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