Protection against deadly mountain goats?

Mountain goats are easily defeated by seasoned mountaineers. All you have to do is jam a length of garden hose over the end of each sharp horn, rendering the beast helpless. Simple.
 
They can be fiercely territorial, have extremely sharp hooves and I sure wouldn't want to get headbutted by one... especially if that puts me on the ground... One more reason I don't hesitate to carry a firearm when I'm out. Sometimes, you simply just don't know.
 
I was accosted by a big horn sheep years ago, in the Canadian Rockies. (It was mid summer, so it wasn't the rut or anything.) This thing wanted to lick my arms...presumably for the salt! I had to get pretty rough, to get rid of it....

Also got molested by a deer in my local mountains (San Bernardino NF). It walked right up to me (a smallish doe), like it wanted a handout of some kind. When I didn't come up with anything, it started striking at me with its front hooves. I had just returned from a dirt bike ride, so I was in full motocross gear (helmet, goggles, boots, chest protector, etc), so I wasn't going to take any crap from this critter! I wacked it a couple time in the muzzle, and grabbed its legs and tripped it up when it tried to strike at me. (Plan B was a knife blade in its jugular vein, seeing that I had an Emerson CQC-10 clipped on my pocket!) It finally backed off a ways, and stood there and watched me the whole time while I loaded up my bike and took off.
 
reconranger said:
Also got molested by a deer in my local mountains (San Bernardino NF). It walked right up to me (a smallish doe), like it wanted a handout of some kind. When I didn't come up with anything, it started striking at me with its front hooves. I had just returned from a dirt bike ride, so I was in full motocross gear (helmet, goggles, boots, chest protector, etc), so I wasn't going to take any crap from this critter! I wacked it a couple time in the muzzle, and grabbed its legs and tripped it up when it tried to strike at me. (Plan B was a knife blade in its jugular vein, seeing that I had an Emerson CQC-10 clipped on my pocket!) It finally backed off a ways, and stood there and watched me the whole time while I loaded up my bike and took off.
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LOL, I would have paid good money to see that!
 
reconranger said:
I was accosted by a big horn sheep years ago, in the Canadian Rockies. (It was mid summer, so it wasn't the rut or anything.) This thing wanted to lick my arms...presumably for the salt! I had to get pretty rough, to get rid of it....

Also got molested by a deer in my local mountains (San Bernardino NF). It walked right up to me (a smallish doe), like it wanted a handout of some kind. When I didn't come up with anything, it started striking at me with its front hooves. I had just returned from a dirt bike ride, so I was in full motocross gear (helmet, goggles, boots, chest protector, etc), so I wasn't going to take any crap from this critter! I wacked it a couple time in the muzzle, and grabbed its legs and tripped it up when it tried to strike at me. (Plan B was a knife blade in its jugular vein, seeing that I had an Emerson CQC-10 clipped on my pocket!) It finally backed off a ways, and stood there and watched me the whole time while I loaded up my bike and took off.
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I think you need to consider changing your Cologne... Just Sayin' :o
 
When I was younger we raised some goats for a short time and we had one billy that like to ram me when I was feeding them right up until the time I smacked him in the head with a teeball bat when he tried to get me with his horns PING next time I went to he stayed on the other side of the pen. Wild or domesticated they are still animals and they will surprise you sometimes.
 
reconranger said:
I was accosted by a big horn sheep years ago, in the Canadian Rockies. (It was mid summer, so it wasn't the rut or anything.) This thing wanted to lick my arms...presumably for the salt! I had to get pretty rough, to get rid of it....

Also got molested by a deer in my local mountains (San Bernardino NF). It walked right up to me (a smallish doe), like it wanted a handout of some kind. When I didn't come up with anything, it started striking at me with its front hooves. I had just returned from a dirt bike ride, so I was in full motocross gear (helmet, goggles, boots, chest protector, etc), so I wasn't going to take any crap from this critter! I wacked it a couple time in the muzzle, and grabbed its legs and tripped it up when it tried to strike at me. (Plan B was a knife blade in its jugular vein, seeing that I had an Emerson CQC-10 clipped on my pocket!) It finally backed off a ways, and stood there and watched me the whole time while I loaded up my bike and took off.
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Someone contact the production crew of Animal Planet's "I Shouldn't be Alive" and get an episode based on this incident into the works now. :p

Nothing like that ever happens to me. All I ever got was a loud raccoon.
 
beware the goat

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It probably looked like a scene from a Jackass movie....man fights deer!

Actually, it was near a fire station (Miller Canyon, if you know the SB Mountains), and I think the deer was very acclimated to humans. I had seen it and two other deer in the area before (its mother and a sibling I think), and they all just seemed way to tame. Maybe the guys at the station were giving them handouts???
 
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Cyblade said:
When I was younger we raised some goats for a short time and we had one billy that like to ram me when I was feeding them right up until the time I smacked him in the head with a teeball bat when he tried to get me with his horns PING next time I went to he stayed on the other side of the pen. Wild or domesticated they are still animals and they will surprise you sometimes.
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Wild or domesticated, they're still animals – but mountain goats are not wild versions of domesticated goats. They're actually not in the goat family. They're more closely related to cows.
 
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Erasmus said:
Mountain goats are easily defeated by seasoned mountaineers. All you have to do is jam a length of garden hose over the end of each sharp horn, rendering the beast helpless. Simple.
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I think that is a fine idea but in case of failure, I might suggest this:
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reconranger said:
Also got molested by a deer in my local mountains (San Bernardino NF). It walked right up to me (a smallish doe), like it wanted a handout of some kind. When I didn't come up with anything, it started striking at me with its front hooves. I had just returned from a dirt bike ride, so I was in full motocross gear (helmet, goggles, boots, chest protector, etc), so I wasn't going to take any crap from this critter! I wacked it a couple time in the muzzle, and grabbed its legs and tripped it up when it tried to strike at me. (Plan B was a knife blade in its jugular vein, seeing that I had an Emerson CQC-10 clipped on my pocket!) It finally backed off a ways, and stood there and watched me the whole time while I loaded up my bike and took off.
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This sounds like something a deceased ex-wife might do if reincarnation really does exist, LOL!!!
 
Protection you say? I too carry a gun but when I am in the Mountains I carry a cannon, S&W 500 Alaskan Survival I am pretty sure it will stop a goat... even though I have never seen a wild goat in NC.
 
Actually, wild animals will respect you if you are carrying a $350 folder around coughSebenza.

They have no consideration for people with $35 knives. Cause they're a bunch of steel snobs.
 
PayetteRucker said:
They can be fiercely territorial, have extremely sharp hooves and I sure wouldn't want to get headbutted by one... especially if that puts me on the ground... One more reason I don't hesitate to carry a firearm when I'm out. Sometimes, you simply just don't know.
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Their hooves aren’t the problem. Their wicked sharp pointy horns are.

Apparently the man was gored in the femoral artery.

When I used to live in Colorado, I often hiked the Divide. Whenever I saw goats, I gave them a wide birth.
 
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