well... a frustrating day to say the least. Was on a herd of about 20 right at legal shooting light. We hiked into position (you could see these goats from the road so it wasn't a far hike, maybe a couple hundred yards to get into a safe shooting position) and waited for the a clean shot on the nicest buck in the herd. While waiting a truck stopped. The hunters saw us, and drove off. About a minute later, another truck stopped and three guys got out. Boom, boom, shots fired before they were off the road. One goat down, flopping in between us and them... Long story short, I watched a group of guys teach a young hunter a lot of unethical hunting decisions (along with a couple of what i would consider illegal ones). We were so upset and frustrated by the situation that I completely forgot to get their license plate. Kind of reminded me of Randy's elk hunt episode that was on YouTube. Oh well, that public land hunting i guess, but it sure does give hunters a bad name. I still have some time, though I'll be putting the focus more on deer and elk now. On the plus side, we did get to spend a day hiking around in some beautiful country, and that beats a day working for sure!!
