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NitroX
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Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges
14/01/03 08:22 PM

Frederik

I thought those pictures did have lots of trees!

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When I started goat hunting I used a .222 Remington 788 with 55 gr Nosler Solid Bases. Handles most feral goats OK, but I was getting too many wounded goats and had to follow too many up. And when its hot a follow up up and down mountains is a major pain. Then I shot a reasonably sized trophy billie and lost him in the bush. Searched for him but never found him.

Stuff that. Upgraded to a .30-06 with 150 gr Nosler Solid Base HPs and pure murder on these light animals. Any animal hit reasonably dropped very quickly and even if the odd gut-shot occurred the animal usually died before I could get to it Note this isn't shooting one or two, sometimes we tried to take out the entire herd for the grazier.

The best calibre is probably a 6mm to a 270 with one of my favourites being the 6.5x55mm.

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Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	11/01/03 04:17 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	SafariHunt	13/01/03 07:22 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	14/01/03 08:22 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	SafariHunt	15/01/03 02:18 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	15/01/03 04:24 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	SafariHunt	16/01/03 02:16 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	16/01/03 07:34 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	22/01/03 11:57 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	22/01/03 09:18 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	SafariHunt	23/01/03 01:58 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	23/01/03 09:07 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	14/01/03 09:21 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	14/01/03 10:38 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	15/01/03 04:13 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	22/01/03 11:51 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	Marty	11/01/03 05:27 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	11/01/03 04:19 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	12/01/03 08:07 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	12/01/03 08:16 AM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	NitroX	12/01/03 09:45 PM
Re: Goat hunting in the Northern Flinders Ranges	cchunter	12/01/03 10:03 PM

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