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08-06-2010, 11:50 AM
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Location: Interior AK
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Actually, he did say that the tracks were mountain goat, and they were. We had good eats that night. Yum!
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08-07-2010, 09:18 PM
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I've never been into tracking even though I love watching animals. I think having the desire to see animals and their signs will help you tremendously. It's amazing how many people fail to realize the many wild and feral animals live practically on top of them and which leave evidence around in the form of excrement, tracks, diggings, and whatnot.
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08-07-2010, 09:34 PM
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The Sportsman's Guide to Game Animals by Leonard Lee Rue III gives an overview of all the game species as well as most mammals large than mice and rats in the US and Canada. It may be out of print though as I found it in a used bookstore, and it is from the 60s or 70s. It does show track prints as well as give some esoteric information (the bones of red and grey squirrels are different colors for example)
It does point out that mountain goats can be taken somewhat easily by two people. One person stays below the goat and gets it attention. The other comes up above it, and drops a big rock on it or shoots it. As mountain goats evolved without predators that hunted them from a higher elevation they will stay focused on odd things below them to the exclusion of anything happening above them.
I was going to guess domestic sheep for the mystery deer.
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