Dangerous hunts

Dangerous Hunts

Dangerous Hunts

The other morning, I was awakened from what I consider a nightmare.  I was dreaming that I was mountain goat hunting and was climbing up a chute to get above the cliffs and rocks were falling all around me.  I felt like I was going to die any moment.  To protect my head, I had the top of my pack pressed hard against the rocks of the chute that I was climbing in.  In real life this has happened to me more than once while hunting both sheep and goat.  I have had D rings knocked off of my pack frame from fast moving rocks.  I still have a small rock fragment imbedded in the handgrip of my little Bear Kodiak Magnum recurve bow that was knocked out of my hand by a wild spinning rock in one of those rock slides.  In the areas where I have hunted, this has happened to me more times while hunting goats.  That brings up a good question, which is the most dangerous hunting sheep or mountain goats?  In my personal experience mountain goat hunting wins hands down!