Any place to hunt goats in USA

[Elkeater]

Is Aoudad a goat? I don’t think so, it is a sheep and that is the only free range Goat/Sheep I know of in Texas.
Bow hunted a number of different species during the years I lived in Texas and it was all high fence.
I may be wrong but I don’t think so.

Nope wasn’t talking about aoudad. There’s a pretty fair number of Catalina goats free range. I’ve hunted them near del Rio. It’s pretty fun.

 

[LivingTheDream]

Is Aoudad a goat? I don’t think so, it is a sheep and that is the only free range Goat/Sheep I know of in Texas.
Bow hunted a number of different species during the years I lived in Texas and it was all high fence.
I may be wrong but I don’t think so.

Texas has free range Desert sheep.

 

[WyoBull]

Nope wasn’t talking about aoudad. There’s a pretty fair number of Catalina goats free range. I’ve hunted them near del Rio. It’s pretty fun.

Good to know and I stand corrected. Thanks for the information.

 

[Red Leg]

Aren’t aoudad goats? Plenty in west Texas.

Is Aoudad a goat? I don’t think so, it is a sheep and that is the only free range Goat/Sheep I know of in Texas.
Bow hunted a number of different species during the years I lived in Texas and it was all high fence.
I may be wrong but I don’t think so.

The Aoudad is definitely a sheep - Barbary Sheep to be precise. A mature ram resembles a VW more than billy.

Desert Big Horn are native to West Texas and they receive a lot of attention from Texas Parks and Wildlife. There is a limited harvest each year (it is one of those if you have to ask the cost kind of things) and a ram is usually available as part of a TP&W drawing each year.

These are a group of young rams we spotted while hunting blue quail near Marathon, Texas in February of 2022. Taken with an iPhone.

 

[NDWoods]

Big Island Hawaii gets my vote. You can hunt goats and be snorkeling with turtles by lunch. I have done it several times. Sometimes you hunt hard on lava rock just above the ocean, sometimes in wide open grass fields.
Last trip my son and I hunted goat in the morning, went and had steaks for lunch, snorkeled with turtles a couple of hours, then hunted a boar on a macadamia nut plantation in the evening before dark.

 

[rgsiii]

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One of the highlights of my father being a professor in the fisheries department at Auburn was the international picnic they would have every year around the research ponds. Many times the Indian, Kuwaiti, or Saudi Arabian students would cook a whole goat. My favorite was the Indian curried goat, they made two versions, one was an orange color and the other was green. It was somewhat tough to get past eating green meat but it was excellent.
As far as hunting goes I would do Texas unless I found myself in Hawaii. Don’t know about the logistics of getting a cooler full of goat meat home though from Hawaii.

Do you still live in the Auburn area?

 

[Hunt anything]

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Do you still live in the Auburn area?

No, my parents still live there. I moved to the coast in 1995. We still make it up there fairly often to visit and go to football and an occasional baseball game. Are you familiar with the area?

 

[John Wasmuth]

One of the “In” things now is Pygmy goat hunting around here. Years ago around the Davis Mountains in west Texas it was fantastic Spanish (Catalina island) goat hunting, no shortage of running up and down mountains all day. Now days people raise Boer goats more than Spanish goats.

 

[rgsiii]

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No, my parents still live there. I moved to the coast in 1995. We still make it up there fairly often to visit and go to football and an occasional baseball game. Are you familiar with the area?

I am about 20 miles east--almost in Georgia.

 

[John Wasmuth]

Just do a search for “Spanish goat hunt Texas” and you’ll find dozens of them. Wish you were looking for a goat hunt ten years ago I could have hosted you. We raised Spanish/boer crosses with B-52 length horns. Big bodies with big horns.

 

[Hunt anything]

I spent a lot of time in Valley on the Chattahoochee catching hybrid striped bass and on lake Harding catching crappie.

 

[channelkat]

My boy harvested his first animal (feral goat) in Hawaii. Both diy and guided hunts, with other critters available too. Sooner or later I’ll get back and take one of those Vancouver bulls. It is a fun place to hunt.

 

[Daisy]

No, my parents still live there. I moved to the coast in 1995. We still make it up there fairly often to visit and go to football and an occasional baseball game. Are you familiar with the area?

My wife’s grandfather was a professor in that department for years.

 

[Hunt anything]

Who is your wife’s grandfather? Dad was there from 1969 to retirement in 2003 or 2004.

 

[gizmo]

I’d be glad to help if I can. We offer a variety of sheep and goat species.

 

[JES Adventures]

Thanks guys for the info. I will search up Texas, if you know of any particular ranch/area/outfitter in TX please let me know.

We are happy to help you out with a goat hunt, we can offer Catalina Goat as well as Hybrid and Nubian Ibex. Here is the link to my website with all the details - www.resrerveranch.com

 

[JES Adventures]

This Catalina taken by one of our clients in January

This Nubian is still out there somewhere.

 

[JES Adventures]

Here’s another nice Billy from a couple of months back.

 

[tward1604]

Is hunting these goats a challenge? I am asking from pure personal ignorance here, I have never hunted them or been on a place that had them. I have seen videos where they might as well have been in a petting zoo. What is the allure to hunting them, just something different?

Specifically asking about behind high fences here in Texas. I don't have any issues with high fences either, just to head that discussion off.

 

[JES Adventures]

The ranch is over 5 square miles and offers a challenging hunt. We have 2.5 miles of crystal clear Nueces River frontage that offers some great fishing in the midday when not chasing big game.

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