After waiting 11 years to draw, my first mountain goat hunt went off the rails. Somehow, I got a second shot. This time, I ...

A mountain goat billy in the Elkhorn Mountains. BAKER CITY — Chris Bocchi peered into the scope attached to the top of his rifle and prepared to complete a hunt that he had, in a sense, started almost ...

A five-hour horseback ride found us nearing timber’s edge. Through the claustrophobic conifers, granite peaks loomed in the wide open beyond. I’d hunted Dall sheep in various mountain ranges in Alaska ...

“Mountaineering with a rifle” is how Taylor Glenn summed up his first few hours of pursuing mountain goats in Grand Teton National Park. The morning of Sept. 23, Glenn was soft-spoken and bummed out, ...

Daniel Embertson of Riddle, near Roseburg, killed this mountain goat billy with his traditional longbow on Oct. 2, 2023, in the Elkhorn Mountains south of Anthony Lakes. BAKER CITY — Daniel Embertson ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, a couple of lucky South Dakota sportsmen will have the chance to go hunting for mountain goats. The mountain goat hunting season will re-open for the first time ...

If the goal is to find the one immutable truth about hunting mountain goats, Brien Jones would suggest a single word.