Let's make a deal!

[N35t0r]

Goats are one of the most annoying animals on earth.

Also, they are wily creatures and can get almost anywhere (see above).

[Dinner]

Goat ranches are awesome, and can produce some of the best cheeses.

Humboldt Fog!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Fog

[regexcellent]

And you have what experience with shooting goats on greasy concrete? Or goats in general? (Please pay attention. It was concrete, not asphalt. These are the sorts of details that caused you to be wrong with the original question.) I walk by them all the time, and even tied up I'll bet you couldn't cleanly shoot one with a shotgun very often.

Dude, I can shoot 3-inch flying clay disks better than half the time. I can hit a goat that's standing mostly still. And I have a friend who lives on a farm and owns a bunch of goats, and I have fed the goats and handled them and so forth.

[Aeson]

Dude, I can shoot 3-inch flying clay disks better than half the time. I can hit a goat that's standing mostly still. And I have a friend who lives on a farm and owns a bunch of goats, and I have fed the goats and handled them and so forth.

Clay disks don't look at you when you point the barrel at them. They can't fight back. They also move in perfectly predictable arcs. You're all talk.

[Aeson]

Also, does your friend know you harbor such zeal for shooting goats with your shotgun? Why are you going to that farm, are you planning something?

[regexcellent]

You have clearly never shot clay. With the wind we get around here they're not that predictable, and in any case, a goat can't change direction fast enough when the shot travels at 1300 feet per second.

[SlowwHand]

Anti-Goatite.

[Aeson]

You have clearly never shot clay. With the wind we get around here they're not that predictable.

I have nothing against clay and do not wish to waste resources upon such a value pit, that is true.

The fact that people do shoot clay relies on the ability to predict where the clay will move. Some people are very good at doing so and miss less often than others. You just aren't one of those really accurate people, which likely means you'd likely screw up when shooting the goat too.

and in any case, a goat can't change direction fast enough when the shot travels at 1300 feet per second.

Your reaction time isn't as fast as you think it is. The fact that you don't acknowledge reaction time at all in your post makes me more sure you'd end up maiming the goat rather than making a clean kill. A goat can move enough distance (which only needs to be centimeters) to turn a clean kill shot into a messy, cruel wound in the ~1/5th of a second it takes to register the change in movement and react. (Close up, you have to move the barrel further, further away you're dealing with the inherent inaccuracies of the weapon.)

Face it, you couldn't do it. Just accept this and go about your life and never, ever, shoot at a goat with a shotgun.

[regexcellent]

Slugs will expand to create a channel that's pretty wide and probably hit a vital organ. Buckshot will spread and probably hit multiple vital organs. People kill deer with shotguns just like mine and cartridges precisely like the ones I own (WHICH ARE MARKED AS DEER CARTRIDGES) all the time. Goats are not harder to kill than deer.

And don't pretend to know more about clay target shooting than I do.

[Hauldren Collider]

Do the world a favor and shoot Aeson with that slug instead.

[Aeson]

Slugs will expand to create a channel that's pretty wide and probably hit a vital organ. Buckshot will spread and probably hit multiple vital organs. People kill deer with shotguns just like mine and cartridges precisely like the ones I own (WHICH ARE MARKED AS DEER CARTRIDGES) all the time. Goats are not harder to kill than deer.

There are often misses and/or slow painful deaths for deer even when they are hit in a vital organ. It happens all the time. Anyone with any experience shooting animals with firearms would know that a shotgun is not a humane way to kill a domesticated animal you won on a game show.

Goats are definitely more difficult to kill cleanly in the wild than deer (for assorted reasons).

And don't pretend to know more about clay target shooting than I do.

I have not compared our knowledge of the subject. I will however point out that your knowledge of what I have said is obvious lacking, and that ignorance is pervasive throughout your arguments about how good you are at shooting goats with your shotgun.

[SlowwHand]

Do the world a favor and shoot Aeson with that slug instead.

What?! And so it goes. First it was the goats, and no one said anything. Then,...

[Aeson]

Do the world a favor and shoot Aeson with that slug instead.

He would miss.

[Dinner]

http://thesmokinggoatrestaurant.com/

That's another local restaurant called The Smoking Goat. Imagine my disappointment when I found that not only don't they serve any entrees featuring goat meat but they also do not smoke any meats either. What a terribly misnamed restaurant.

[Ben Kenobi]

Do the world a favor and shoot Aeson with that slug instead.

Sheesh. I love shooting clay. Nothing better than nailing one of 'em unless it's hitting a goose bigger than you!