Right O guys lets see those goat trophys!

I've only shot two, a young kid that we ate and a billy that I have the horns from. These were taken near Lithgow when we were out looking for pigs. I would like to shoot a big trophy animal however and have it mounted.

Some info in this link-The Goat

Here's Top-Predator with one billy that we got last year when I was visiting.



Sorry James, I couldn't resist it!

here is a billy I shot out near cobar, western NSW.

Here is the biggest head i have shot 33 1/2 inchs tip to tip

You blokes have all done well!

I wouldn't post my pic of my one and only got even if I was dying of thirst.


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I haven't hunted 'stinkies' for many years.

In the Northern Flinders Ranges.



Never have taken any decent trophies and all the horns I took were just thrown onto the top of a shed and probably weathered away. The area while at the time having untold thousands of feral goats never produced any or many decent heads, which I knew as two friends managed the property for a few years. My 'trophy' photos are all slides and who knows where they are.

I would probably be willing to pay a reasonable fee to get at a really good wide stinker from a wild herd. To me they make impressive trophies on the wall.

Last trip coming back from a buffalo hunt, I had a good look at a semi-trailer in a service station full of feral goats mustered from a station West of Port Augusta. It makes a hunter cry to see some of the good herds in that truck heading for the slaughter yards or export.

Not a lot of trophy type heads in our area , although the angora breeding of the 1980's did produce some better heads into the wild population - when the goat boom turned to a bust many farmers just released the goats and they went wild .

Our local goats have fairly big bodies but horn spreads or more than about 24" are fairly rare. Other parts of the country have better heads , probably has more to do with the mineral composition of the soils .

It has been years now, but the family bought and operated a horse ranch in north central California about 15 years ago. When it was purchased it was occupied by feral goats and pigs. We immediately started a project to remove all of these animals. I harvested several large large billies with my old long barreled 38-55 Marlin. Soon we remved all of the goats, but the pigs kept coming in from an adjacent property. Although we removed about 70 of the pigs, they just kept coming back. Good fun I must say!