Thread: Training Ace

With the change to lv3 I had Ace back in the hills again.

After hitting the bush he started winding within a very short time. Too short. I didn't drive all that way to pull the trigger and head home. We cut across the creek and pushed up high. He took me to a pig wallow and seemed to want to find the pigs. As they were a mob I decided it was a little too confusing and moved him on to the top of the ridge. A scattering of goats were in the valley but in pretty uncomfortable spots and with the lv3, the last thing I needed was a fall so I turned and headed up to some closer bluffs.

Nearing these he gave me the heads up that something was near but with fresh cattle sign up there and blustery wind I didn't take him seriously. That was until I heard an animal down below breaking. We followed up but the blustery wind was a nightmare so eventually stopped near a waterfall and had lunch. Halfway through his nose went up and from downwind I hear a goat. Bit a of a sneak and some effing around to get in position resulted in a nanny(let the big billy with her go). Awesome. Another good experience for him.



Back wheeled her for some rolled roasts later and headed for the car.

A couple hundred mtrs along the face whilst sidling through a bit of a bluffy system his nose goes up and he's hackled and sure something's close. Sure enough there's a saanen x nanny and a young billy. The billy is pretty close so we move in and at 5m Ace starts bloody growling and even lets out two small barks. I could have throttled him. I quickly drill the goat and let the nanny go on her way. Hoping that was a one off. I'm assuming it's because he's a bit young and it's still a little scary. It better be. Either way, all good experience. That makes four goats for three hunts. Of course we could have shot more but they wouldn't have been valuable to his training.