![]() ![]() Once Litt drew the tag, he started learning as much as he could about mountain goats, their habitat and hunting tactics. ![]() Guy Litt of Laramie shared this video from his recent mountain goat hunt. “I’m working on building up preference points for my bighorn sheep tag, which I figure may take another 15 years.” “I feel super fortunate to have drawn a goat tag at my fairly young age,” said Litt, 35. But the drawings for mountain goats are random selection, Litt said. Hunters will often spend many years compiling “preference points” to better their odds for drawing tags for moose and bighorn sheep. The others include bighorn sheep, bison, moose and – if and when they’re delisted and legal to hunt – grizzly bears. Mountain goats are among Wyoming’s “Big 5” game species, for which tags are especially scant and usually once-in-a-lifetime scores for hunters. “There were 48 mountain goat tags available in Wyoming and 3,980 applicants.” “I feel so fortunate, looking at the odds this past year,” he said. ![]() Photo Courtesy Guy Litt A Relatively Young AgeĮven drawing a mountain goat tag was feat of luck. 1, the opening day of mountain goat rifle season. “I had to have patience to wait for when the goats would move out of dangerous places and into areas where I could stalk them.”Īfter hunting for several days during an August archery season, Litt’s efforts paid off on Sept. “My hunt was an exercise in patience,” he told Cowboy State Daily.
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