Shot Goat Tumbles Down Mountain. Graphic.

If the shot didnt get him the fall certainly finished it. Now the hunters dont need to climb that much to retrieve him.
 
I saw a kill like that before on TV. As a hunter, I dont agree with it. I feel that making a shot like that knowing the animal will tumble like that is disrespectful.

That thing would be mangled by the time it stopped. I dont see how anyone sees that as sporting.
 
I don't find it funny, Ottoshot, but it's amazing footage. But I also don't think they anticipated that kind of fall, even though the goat was up high. They sounded pretty amazed themselves. Although they do gloat at the end.
 
Ottoshot said:
I saw a kill like that before on TV. As a hunter, I dont agree with it. I feel that making a shot like that knowing the animal will tumble like that is disrespectful.

That thing would be mangled by the time it stopped. I dont see how anyone sees that as sporting.
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I dont agree that they should have taken that shot if they thought the animal had a chance of falling like that.

Would the meat even be harvestable after a fall like that? I think its safe to say the internal organs were damaged at some point.
 
I hope the first shot killed it, that was a terrible fall. I kinda think they may have messed up a lot of the product after that kinda fall, thats too bad.
 
If the shot killed it clean, there might be hope. If it experienced stress on the way down, the meat will certainly not be too tasty...
 
awww GG6, I thought it was pretty funny. Personally I'm against animal cruelty, but goats fall off cliffs all the time :):)
 
If they tote all the meat out of that place(no easy feat) which honors the kill they are ok in my book, if not IMHO just a couple of guys who don't have a clue. Great shot and footage.
 
As long as they used the goat for it's meat , it's nobody's business but theirs.

How is yanking a trout out of the creek , letting it suffocate a slow painful death and then chopping it's head off any different..... give me a break.

I can just see some folks getting their shorts in a twist over this. :rolleyes:
 
Took the words out of my mouth there, stingray. It's already ground up before it's skinned
 
stingray4540 said:
Pre-tenderized Goat Meat?
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Spark said:
Took the words out of my mouth there, stingray. It's already ground up before it's skinned
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Exactly:thumbup:

I haven't hunted mountains before but I would imagine that a fall like that happens quite a bit when you place a bullet in something while it's standing on a mountain slope, no shocker here.

Helle
 
I Guess it depends on how you want to look at that video.

One can say that the hunters made a ethical shot and it was a clean kill. Unfortunatly the animal after its demise rolled several hundred yards down a rocky mountain. What a shame, I wish that didn't happen. It is my understanding that 300-400 yard shots are common during that kind of hunt.

The other side of that debate it that a 400 yard shot is marginal at best and should never be taken. As an ethical hunter you need to feel confident that you can harvest an animal as quickly as possible and when you execute the shot that it is probable that you will do this. I don't know by what I saw if these hunters where confident in their ability to make that shot. They all seemed a bit suprised at the outcome. Therefore from a ethical standpoint probably should not have taken the shot.

Someone compared this to taking a fish out of water and letting it die a slow death. There is no difference! What makes taking a fish and letting it suffocate ok? The fish once removed from the water should also be immediatly dispatched. It is the ethical thing to do.

Whether you agree or not the one thing that this does is help anti-hunters paint hunters as slobs. IMO.

Paul.
 
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