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(From the back cover): About the Author. Duncan Gilchrist is a big game hunter and author eminently qualified to write a book such as Hunt High. Now 55, he began hunting as a young boy. His quest in the pursuit of big game has taken him from Alaska to Africa, Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia, along with the states of Montana, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Missouri and Illinois. He now resides in the beautiful Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. Here Duncan works at his many ventures. Formerly he lived in Alaska for 14 years where he worked as a forester and as a guide. As a bush pilot he has logged 6,000 hours flying a Cub. Gilchrist spends in excess of 100 days a year hunting and photographing big game. Among his other books are Montana-Land of Giant Rams, All About Bears, Successful Big Game Hunting, Trophy Rams on the Brooks Range, Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat, On Bears and Bear Hunting, Big Game Hunters and Fishermans Complete Guide to the Field Care of Trophies and Journal of a High Country Hunter. Inside Hunt High you'll find a bountiful package of high country hunting lore and "how to" information including: more information on hunting the mountain goat that can be found in any other book, chapters oh high scoring bighorn sheep and three chapters on hunting mountain game in New Zealand. Chapters include information on every state and province with a mountain goat population, how to hunt all alpine big game, the hows and whys of super rams, telling the mountain goat sexes apart, rifles for the high country, equipment and tips for the high country hunter, stories on hunting mountain goats, tahr and chamois along with a quest for 200 point bighorn rams. Within the book's pages can be found charts and tables that will be helpful to the hunter of mountain goats. Table of Contents Dedication Introduction
Part I - High Country Game 1 The Rocky Mountain Goat 2 Mountain Goats of Alaska 3 Mountain Goats of the West 4 Mountain Goats of Canada 5 New Zealand - Hunter's Promised Land?
Part II Methods and Means 6 Hunting Alpine Game 7 Super Rams 8 Billies and Nannies 9 Rifles for High Country 10 Equipment and Tips for Hunting High
Part III Hunting High 11 A Montana Mountain Goad 12 A Trip to the Kootenays 13 We Outdumbed Our Goat 14 Three Top Chamois 15 The Phantom Tahr 16 Quest for a 200-Point Ram 17 The Upper Endicott 18 A Goat for Yoshi
Appendices A. Rules for Hunting Mountain Goats B. Horns of Kootenay Goats C. The Author |