Postmedia News : Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:44 PM
Troy Sheldon;of Alexandria;Kentucky;poses with the record-breaking Rocky Mountain goat he shot in the Stikine River area of B.C. Oct. 8;2011.
A man from Kentucky has bagged the biggest Rocky Mountain goat on record.
According to Eldon Buckner, spokesman for the U.S.-based Boone and Crockett Club, the goat shot on Oct. 8, 2011, in the Stikine River area scored 57 and four eighths Boone and Crockett points, creating a new world record.
Buckner said Troy M. Sheldon, of Alexandria, Kentucky, shot the goat on the seventh day of a hunt with friend Carey Renner and guide Heidi Gutfrucht, of Northwest Ranching and Outfitting.
Sheldon killed the goat with a single shot from his Tikka T3 .270 rifle. The goat was across a ravine about 300-metres from the shooter.
The Boone and Crockett Club’s scoring system has been used since 1906 to measure horn size, symmetry and mass.
Buckner said more than a thousand Rocky Mountain goats from Alaska to Nevada have met the minimum Boone and Crockett score of 47. But by far the most entries (541) have come from British Columbia.
“British Columbia continues to set the standard for Rocky Mountain goats,” Buckner said. “The province remains home to more than half of the world’s population and trophy-class specimens have been trending upward each decade since the 1970s.”
Sheldon will be invited to include his trophy in a public exhibition held as part of Boone and Crockett’s 28th Awards Program in Reno, Nev., next year.
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