For Rdneck

[Scott Tschirhart]

[rdnck]

Scott--Heckuva deal! Congratulations and well done. shoot straight, rdnck.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I kinda owe it to you for convincing me to take the plunge!

[Kurt]

My neighbor raises goats, I think he has between 50 and 60 maybe more.
He has some with so much mass on there heads that I been telling him to leave the gate open so they can get out in the corn fields and I will give him twice what he paid for then $63.
There is one brown and white one I have seen running around but he denies that is one of his, so I guess it's mine the next time I see it.

Kurt

[rdnck]

Kurt--I know what you mean about the goats. A neighbor of mine has a couple of herds of them on two of his pastures. He has the Pyrenees sheepdogs to keep the coyotes honest, and the dogs do a good job. Some of those domestic goats carry some really impressive headgear.

The feral aoudad that roam some of the south Texas ranches are a different critter from your regular yard goat. The aoudad are actually Barbary sheep, and are tough, heavily muscled and compact. A good sized one will easily top 300 pounds. They are a lot bigger and TOUGHER than deer and domestic goats. I had a couple of guys that hunt down there with 7 mags and such tell me that they were really hard to kill and soaked up a lot of lead, and that they didn't think we would have very good luck with a Sharps. One guy told me that he would bet money that we wouldn't shoot all the way through one. If he hadn't been a friend of mine, I would have taken the bet.

They are more wary than deer in most places, and are a challenging animal to hunt. I'm still looking for my first one, but maybe later this year I can put a paper patched bullet to work out of my 45-110. Scott certainly has his program working with the 30-1 Govt. bullet and 70 grains of Goex Cartridge out of his Shiloh 45-70. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[kamotz]

Well, so thats what an Aoudad looks like. Last Nov. when I was visiting freinds and family in Texas I got to see a popular hang-out for these beasts. It was actually a cliff, at least 100 ft tall. Those grey puff balls you see down there are not grass, thats little trees. Well , we didnt get the drop on any of them but their droppings were testament to the popularity of the place. Ive never tried any but I was told they dont taste very good and they stink like hell. Great looking mount theyd make though aye?

[Scott Tschirhart]

The smaller ones don't smell so bad, but the big ones stink really bad.

Actually they turned out to be pretty good eating. The guy in the top photo is an old friend who used to be employed by the federal gov't. He and I used to deal with some unsavory characters that we put in some dark places.

His brother owns a nice restaurant in Dallas. They chicken fried a bunch of steaks off his aoudad and they turned out quite tasty.

We will get you back out there rdnck, but you gotta quit shooting deer if you want to see one of these. I swear, every time I take you out you hammer something right away.

[rdnck]

Scott--I have a hard time letting a good 8 point whitetail walk. Where I hunt most of the time you usually don't see one all that often. I did pass on a really big 6 point and a 7 point before I shot that last 8 point.

You do have more deer than aoudad, and you are right. I'll be more focused next time. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I'll see if I can get a digital pic of the 15 point that Ramiro took on the last day of the season. It is spectacular! You WILL let 8 pointers walk by after you see this.

[Kurt]

My friend the goat farmers place is about 600 yard south west of me and on a wet misty day when a light breeze is blowing from his way I can smell those exotic critters of his.
It shouldn't be to hard to pick up there sent with the air coming up those hills down your way.

Bill if you would have waited till late afternoon that none typical double drop tine might have walked out

Kurt