# @outdoor_life on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNa_yCkO1gB
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33390391-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-16T16:00:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

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I’d been on hundreds of big game hunts around the world, but this was the most tortuous of them all.⁠
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Stinging legs and burning lungs that begged for air made me wish I’d have tried for a goat earlier in life, with a healthy back. Bloodied fingers and torn fingernails — the result of grasping sharp rocks on the arduous climb — added to the discomfort. I felt bad for Travis Ralls, my ace sidekick and videographer, carting that big camera, heavy tripod, and a pack full of batteries and other gear up the mountain. He didn’t complain once. He never did. He kept me going more times than he knew. That kind of determination and sacrifice is tough to find in a person, let alone a talented videographer who was also a skilled hunter in his own right. Making a final move to get into shooting position on the billy, we pushed as hard as my body would allow. Then the billy bedded down, pinning us behind a lone spruce tree for over an hour. Once he stood, I placed the amber dot of the Trijicon AccuPoint crosshair behind the billy’s shoulder and pressured the trigger on the .300 short mag. — scotthaugenoutdoors⁠
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Story by: scotthaugenoutdoors

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