Hunt Backcountry Podcast Archive — Mountain Goat

Researcher, wildlife manager, and author, Bruce L. Smith, has spent countless hours, days, weeks, and months studying mountain goats over his decades-long career. On today's podcast, we speak with Bruce about the majestic mountain goat — to learn more about their history, habitat, behavior, and future conservation.

Mountain Goats are fascinating animals that live in wildly big and adventurous country. Lee Ricks joins us on the Hunt Backcountry podcast to talk about his recent Mountain Goat hunt from this past fall in Montana. We discuss the story, the uniqueness of the hunt, the lessons learned, and more.

Photographer and hunter, Beaumon Day, joins us to talk about his pursuit of wildlife — with both weapons and cameras. We talk about what Beau has learned from wildlife photography that also informs his hunting. We then discuss a very unique hunt that Beau got to participate in this past fall, as he hunted Mountain Goat

We met our guest, Rafe, on Kodiak Island this past fall. Rafe has extensive experience hunting, guiding, and fishing in Alaska for species that include Sitka Blacktail Deer, Kodiak brown bears, mountain goats, and sheep. In this show, we chat with Rafe about his experience as a guide and what lessons he has learned...