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Posted on 07/24/2012 3:55:31 PM PDT by JoeProBono
SALT LAKE CITY,-- A Utah wildlife official said the mysterious "goat man" photographed crawling near some goats was a California hunter testing out a goat stalking disguise.
Phil Douglass, conservation outreach manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said he was contacted recently by a 57-year-old California man who revealed he had donned a goat suit July 15 and appeared in Coty Creighton's photograph near Ben Lomond Peak just north of Ogden, the Ogden Standard-Examiner reported Tuesday.
Douglass said the man, who did not give his name, gave information substantiating his claims and said he was testing out the goat suit for an upcoming hunting trip.
"He gave me details that convinced me it was him," Douglass said. "I'm satisfied that this was a person preparing for a hunt and did it with knowledge and experience."
Creighton said he had enjoyed the mystery about the goat man's identity.
"I thought I wanted answers, but I was naive. I should have left well enough alone. Now I just want the mystery back," he said.
I figured it was a nature photographer. Didn’t consider a hunter since it wasn’t hunting season yet.
I was told they taste a lot like mutton, don't like motton either. I guess its an aquired taste. A good Porterhouse is much more to my liking...BBQ sounds interesting...
Where does the air compressor come in when you’re skinning one?
And I love the idea of a goat grape vine. Maybe you guys could modernize it into goatNet.
Years ago when we lived in rural Alaska, the goats and Dall sheep would come down to the valley for first green grass in early spring. Compared to the sheep, goats were built like tanks.
During those times, we had to make sure the dogs were kept penned up, for the goats would have kiled them in a hearbeat. Neighbor few miles up the road, found two dead wolves which were gored severely by goats. Moose run, goats attack.
BS, the adult male mountain goat is extremely muscular, especially so in the forefront of their body.
Muzzies don’t want to fool around with Oreamnos americanus.
http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_oddities/2010/10/mountain-goat-kills-hiker.html
“Mountain Goat Kills Hiker
10/19/2010
Most people know to steer clear of carnivorous creatures such as bears and mountain lions while hiking in the American wilderness, but it can be strange and shocking to hear reports of seemingly non-threatening herbivores attacking and killing people.
Sadly, this is exactly what happened in Olympic National Park in Washington State, where a man was fatally gored by an aggressive mountain goat last weekend.
It was a joke...
Look! a sni...
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#1 hang dead goat by the head (I did it in the garage (4 car farm garage)
#2 with single edge razor blade cut a 1 inch incision just below the front leg knee. Be careful to go through the hide but not cut into the flesh....
#3 Put trigger end of compressor into the hole and hold for about 7 seconds. (you don't want the goat to blow up entirely))
#4 This process pulls the fascia (that separated the flesh from the hide. and the hide blows up like a balloon loosening all the hide from the flesh...,p. #5 For me, the longest part, took about 10 minutes was to cut around the leg, down the leg and across the chest and up the other leg. I tried to keep as much hide as possible so sometimes I cut around the head to get some nice hide from the chin...Once you have gone from one leg to another, all that is left is the hide loose from the meat...that part takes about 10 minutes and depends on weather the hind legs have enough hair to make it worth while to bother with. I would cut down the belly, pop the bubbles left from the compressor on the back part of the hide.. The weigh of the hide in some places will actually be heavy enough to almost fall off part by itself...
On an angora in full hair the hide is quite heavy, some will shear up to 10 pounds or more depending on the size and age of the goat and that does not take into account the weight of the wet hide......when it comes off, you lay in on a piece of plywood fleece down, between 2 saw horses and salt it real good to dry out the hide....I would get salt by 50 pound bags at the elevator. Every day go out and scrape off the wet salt and apply fresh sale, covering the hide about 1/4 inch thick....for an angora it can take up to 2 weeks to dry it out completely. When its dry and stiff as a board, fold it and sent off to the tanner....I used a tanner at Bucks County Penn.
Hope this is understandable to you....some guys are strong enough to hang and pull the hide off, I found this way really easy, no blood dripping if you do it right. DO NOT NICK BELLY. The belly hide is thinner than the rest of the hide on a goat...
The entire hide is removed with one single edge razor blade..and the wet salt you removed can be put on anything flat and dried out for use several days later....waste not, want not......GG
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probably a snipers outfit....
wow...what a description....I’d have to see it done in order to learn that...
It reminds me of my grandfather who was an old cowboy. We got him to write down his memoirs from the early part of the 20th century. In the book, he wrote about how to skin a hog. Fascinating what my forefathers went through, not to mention some of my current hillbilly relatives. ; >
Salamander Woman
Thanks goat granny. You’ve clearly done it a time or two!
that is a magnificent goat...wonder what breed it is.
I was watching Swamp People and one of the men used an air compressor in starting the skinning of a gator...Gator has to be hard to skin....
I enjoyed listening to my dad tell stories, wish I had a recorder. Not just the farm but being a mounted police man...
There just started a series on Great Lakes Warriors, and his mother had her farm on lake Huron, Port Sanilac, Lexington area....He talked about the storm of 1913 on the great lakes he was a teen at the time and had a few bodies beached on Grandma's farm...That storm of 1913 was one of the first stories of the series..We also had property on Lake Huron and its amazing how fast the great lakes can go from nice, to choppy to large white capes in less than 1/2 hour....Like in the song of the Edmond Fitzgerald, Superior never gives up her dead. The water is too deep and too cold to allow gas's to form in the body that allows them to float up... He gave me a book on all the known wrecks on the great lakes....
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