Got on a new lease in Texas Hill Country and have exotic questions.

I think that last pic is fallow. Has the black stripe down it's tail.

Tell me more about the Turkey population..

The axis in pic 8 and the one in the background on right in pic 96 look like shooters to me

Do you have specific parameters that they have to be according to lease or you just want a mature one that’s 32+ inches?

1st pic made me think of the old Adam Sandler skit about the goat in the back of the truck.

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we heard him beating the shite out of you a couple of nights ago. You guys heard that? Yeah. Where were you? At my house. You--f--he was fricking beating me loud, huh? Oh yeah, he was screaming. He was going off that night. He's got this new hickory stick and he fricking goes off with that thing. He was really lacing into me. Apparantely he found out bad news that his ex-wife was fricking his brother or something like that and he went off the fricking deep end man, just fricking--first time he used fists. You know, usually he hits me with the stick, and just fricking whacks away. This time he dropped the stick, and you know, he fought me like fricking 30's style boxing, putting the dukes up, I'm like I got fricking no dukes old man, relax.

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That don’t look like west Texas Baw.

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Maybe it’s more central but it’s West of my place in Falfurrias.

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What’s wrong with Aoudads? I know nothing about them except they look like they would make a badass mount.

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They are big competition for native species in an area that's tough living already. I'm also way more interested in having desert bighorn on the mountains of west Texas than aoudads.

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They are big competition for native species in an area that's tough living already. I'm also way more interested in having desert bighorn on the mountains of west Texas than aoudads.

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This is more Hill Country.

Rize, I know you’re selective, but if you see that buck from the background in 96, you should take that deer as one of your two kills. Wide and a belly on him. Tasty and would be a good mount. Kill an aoudad for the other

sika deer have a white, heart shaped rump patch


I would be checking pictures for a red deer hind (female) which are excellent eating

So my company had a lease in Mountain Home for 30+ years that I hunted for 12-13 seasons before the land owner sold the property in 2018. We had everything on it, Whitetail, Sika, Axis, Aoudad, Blackbuck, Mouflon, Turkeys, spanish goats, etc. The land owner got rid of all the Aoudad because they would destroy all of the feeders by ramming the legs until they fell over. When I first started going there in 2006, we had planty of Sika. Then they all just sort of disappeared. We would have a client every now and then say they saw a Sika, but none of us ever saw any the last few years. I think they were mistaken because Sika don't hide deep in the cover like Whitetail and Axis. I will say this about the hill country. Droughts and hard freezes are very hard on the herds. We lost the entire blackbuck heard during whatever freeze it was where it stayed below freezing for 3-4 days. We had to bring in a new herd to repopulate the property. We also had a really strong 8 point gene where almost every buck was an 8. A few 10's here and there but 90% were 8 points. I really miss that place. It was beautiful over there. Natural spring ponds with monster bass, cliffs everywhere, animals everywhere. Just an awesome place to spend time and hunt.

Our place was just off the Junction highway between Mountain Home and Ingram.