This story, “My Goat Was High,” appeared in the August 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. RON MARTIN WAS NOT the silent type of guide. He lowered his 6X binoculars and gave me a dry grin. “There are your ...

In a day’s hiking at 12,000 to 14,000 feet, I’d seen several goats and was totally fascinated by the creatures and the terrain they lived in. I knew right then I had to try hunting goats with my bow.

A five-hour horseback ride found us nearing timber’s edge. Through the claustrophobic conifers, granite peaks loomed in the wide open beyond. I’d hunted Dall sheep in various mountain ranges in Alaska ...

Hunting the flanks of the high Tetons north of Table Mountain, Rosso also hiked in on Aug. 2 and spent the night in the field. He found a solo mature billy that he’d spotted earlier in the summer, and ...

Daniel Embertson of Riddle, near Roseburg, killed this mountain goat billy with his traditional longbow on Oct. 2, 2023, in the Elkhorn Mountains south of Anthony Lakes. BAKER CITY — Daniel Embertson ...

Northeast Kansas native Kaleb Baird shoots world-record mountain goat in Alaska Goat's horns measure 53 4/8 inches on Pope and Young scale Previous world-record goat set just 10 months prior A Council ...

Now that’s a big goat. A hunter from Alaska has been recognized by one of the country’s leading bowhunting and conservation organizations for harvesting a world record goat. While the animal was ...

This was a hunt I had dreamed about for years, and no mountain was going to keep me from trying for a trophy goat. I’d be under other handicaps, too. I planned to bag one of those skyline billies with ...

Now that’s a big goat. A hunter from Alaska has been recognized by one of the country’s leading bowhunting and conservation organizations for harvesting a world record goat. While the animal was ...