Leaving for Florida, the Mountains, soon.

[Graysonhogs]

I hate to break the news but there are no mountains in Florida.

The Silicon Mountain Range on Daytona Beach.


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[trophy8]

The Silicon Mountain Range on Daytona Beach.


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And I’m a mountain climber. Put me in coach!


Hope she drills an ibex today!

[S-3 Ranch]

N.M ibex rifle

Found this interesting, didn’t know you can rifle hunt them right now? I assume on a different mountain range?
On New Mexico trophy.com

“” 37 inch billy shot downhill thru the heart in his bed facing directly head on laying on a boulder at 258 yards with a savage long range hunter 300 win mag topped with a zeiss 4.5x14 rapid z 800 sending 165 grain barnes TTSX. ””

“” punched my tag on day 2.5 on the second biggest Billy of the trip seen. G&F has straight up pounded this resource way too hard and between that and the drought I'd lay off applying a year or two for your OIL. Nanny/kid hunts have cratered the population from over 800 to less than 300 on this range. 2 other rifle hunters in camp, one was active military and ate his tag after 5 hard days, one killed a billy in mid 20's that ran over the back of the mountain after I missed his big brother at 450 yards on a very uphill shot over a granite dome on the morning of day two.

Still a great hunt with great guides and I'm happy I got to go. That mountain is a straight up kick in the crotch. And I did it all with a torn meniscus/spaghetti knee and had surgery when I got back; 3 weeks on crutches down, one more to go. Lotta rehab ahead of me.”

Grateful for the opportunity, happy for my trophy

[buck_wild]

Reports dried up. Is the hunt over ?

[slayr]

Found this interesting, didn’t know you can rifle hunt them right now? I assume on a different mountain range?
On New Mexico trophy.com

“” 37 inch billy shot downhill thru the heart in his bed facing directly head on laying on a boulder at 258 yards with a savage long range hunter 300 win mag topped with a zeiss 4.5x14 rapid z 800 sending 165 grain barnes TTSX. ””

“” punched my tag on day 2.5 on the second biggest Billy of the trip seen. G&F has straight up pounded this resource way too hard and between that and the drought I'd lay off applying a year or two for your OIL. Nanny/kid hunts have cratered the population from over 800 to less than 300 on this range. 2 other rifle hunters in camp, one was active military and ate his tag after 5 hard days, one killed a billy in mid 20's that ran over the back of the mountain after I missed his big brother at 450 yards on a very uphill shot over a granite dome on the morning of day two.

Still a great hunt with great guides and I'm happy I got to go. That mountain is a straight up kick in the crotch. And I did it all with a torn meniscus/spaghetti knee and had surgery when I got back; 3 weeks on crutches down, one more to go. Lotta rehab ahead of me.”

Grateful for the opportunity, happy for my trophy

I know the guy that shot that one, it was about a month ago or so.

[Zmaxhunter]

Sorry, final update for now.
My part of the hunt is over, they have another week.
The hunters are still hunting.. couple decent encounters.
I needed to get home, left the mountains at 11am the 19th.
Grabbed a rental car in Las Cruces.
Got a nice room at the La Quinta in Dalhart Tx.
Had my 1st shower in 7 days..lol
Woke up to about an inch or so snow.. slushy roads,
Met my wife in Wichita at DDENA (dwight d eisenhower national airport) lol
I went to bed about 10p last night.. woke up and its 11:17, lol

On the way home, i picked up 24 tamales from Kathys Carryout in Albuquerque.

Thank you all for riding along, for the support and encouragement.
The Green Screen is the best.

Oh, i got to meet Bill Lewellen with One on One Adventures

[Chompers]

Thanks for taking us along. Amazing

[Burnadell]

The ability of those animals to scale sheer cliffs is amazing, and I will never understand how they do it. Thanks for the pictures!

[Uncle Saggy]

This was an absolute awesome thread.
Hope we get an update with one down


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[Greenheadless]

Found this interesting, didn’t know you can rifle hunt them right now? I assume on a different mountain range?
On New Mexico trophy.com

“” 37 inch billy shot downhill thru the heart in his bed facing directly head on laying on a boulder at 258 yards with a savage long range hunter 300 win mag topped with a zeiss 4.5x14 rapid z 800 sending 165 grain barnes TTSX. ””

“” punched my tag on day 2.5 on the second biggest Billy of the trip seen. G&F has straight up pounded this resource way too hard and between that and the drought I'd lay off applying a year or two for your OIL. Nanny/kid hunts have cratered the population from over 800 to less than 300 on this range. 2 other rifle hunters in camp, one was active military and ate his tag after 5 hard days, one killed a billy in mid 20's that ran over the back of the mountain after I missed his big brother at 450 yards on a very uphill shot over a granite dome on the morning of day two.

Still a great hunt with great guides and I'm happy I got to go. That mountain is a straight up kick in the crotch. And I did it all with a torn meniscus/spaghetti knee and had surgery when I got back; 3 weeks on crutches down, one more to go. Lotta rehab ahead of me.”

Grateful for the opportunity, happy for my trophy

I’m guessing that was Andy.

[jlow]

Sorry, final update for now.
My part of the hunt is over, they have another week.
The hunters are still hunting.. couple decent encounters.
I needed to get home, left the mountains at 11am the 19th.
Grabbed a rental car in Las Cruces.
Got a nice room at the La Quinta in Dalhart Tx.
Had my 1st shower in 7 days..lol
Woke up to about an inch or so snow.. slushy roads,
Met my wife in Wichita at DDENA (dwight d eisenhower national airport) lol
I went to bed about 10p last night.. woke up and its 11:17, lol

On the way home, i picked up 24 tamales from Kathys Carryout in Albuquerque.

Thank you all for riding along, for the support and encouragement.
The Green Screen is the best.

Oh, i got to meet Bill Lewellen with One on One Adventures

Thanks for taking us along Brian!!!


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[lmartin5]

Thanks for taking us along!


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[Pedernal]

OP, Thank you for posting up this thread… what an accomplishment it would be to paint an arrow red on one of these beasts!

[Dale Moser]

What subspecies of ibex are those, and where are they native to?


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[Zmaxhunter]

They are Persian Ibex, i believe 1st transplanted in 1970.
Hunters came down, got a shower, a good meal, and went back up yesterday, last night and this morning was more misery with 60mph winds.

A mature Billy can weigh 150, about 36" tall, 30 to the shoulder.
Horns can be longer than they are tall.