Greatest Of All Targets

With an estimated population of 2.3 million spread across large portions of Australia and no seasonal hunting restrictions, the humble feral goat provides year-round opportunities to hunters. Treated correctly, meat from nannies and young billies is superb in a wide range of dishes, but never better than in a good curry. Goat skins come in a wide variety of colours and patterns that make great floor mats or covers on the lounge. A set of 40-inch plus horns on a nice mount also looks good on the wall.

SO, there are a good many reasons, as well as opportunities, to get out and hunt these animals with the rifle and, if you really want some great sport, with the bow.

Origins in Australia

The translation of the goat’s scientific name, , is interesting and very much to the point! can mean translates to “smell of goats”. The old-time zoologists who gave the humble goat its scientific name didn’t mince words when describing goats, especially billies, and more so when those billies are feeling a bit amorous in peak breeding seasons.