I'm going to Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry Podcast. This is episode number 450. And today's

episode is about a mountain goat hunt in Montana.

Our guest Coulter is a listener of the show

and he shared a story with me via email

that I thought would make for a great conversation.

So although you may or may not

be interested in hunting mountain goats

or practically hunt them in the future,

there's still a lot of takeaways in this episode and I think it's also beneficial

to as hunters be aware of species that maybe aren't our focus. I know that

before I hunted mountain goats I was fascinated by them and still

their species today that I don't know that I'll ever hunt but I enjoy learning about and it gives me a bigger, broader picture of conservation, which also plays into

Coulter's hunt as you'll hear about. There are some cool aspects of this story with conservation, work that Montana does within the state

to manage Mountain Goats the Rocky Mountain Goat Association and more so stay tuned

and enjoy this episode. But before we dive into it, if you have been

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so we do it because of your support and it continues to grow because of your

support. So thank you for taking the time to do that. Let's dive into this conversation with

Coulter. Coulter, welcome to the show. I am excited to chat for people who have listened to the

podcast. They know I always get really excited about Mountain Goats and that's a story for today. But before we do dive into that story just start with

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