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re: Got on a new lease in Texas Hill Country and have exotic questions.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 10:10 am to LARancher1991
Posted on 4/5/24 at 10:10 am to LARancher1991
I’d like to mount one and don’t want to mount a small one. This is low fence so not sure how big they will get. How long do you think their horns are?
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Posted on 4/5/24 at 1:18 pm to Rize
This is the kind of lease you don't post pics online of and keep to yourself. Gonna be a lot of jealous people. Looks awesome.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 4:54 pm to Rize
Audad are great eating, don't let anybody convince you otherwise until you try them. Grew up hunting near Junction with my dad and we'd eat the hell out of them. The other folks on the lease would dump them.
Posted on 4/5/24 at 8:59 pm to Rize
Hook a brother up with deets! That looks like a great place.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 6:10 am to Marlo Stanfield
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Our place was just off the Junction highway between Mountain Home and Ingram.
The Guadalupe headwaters and Divide country is a beautiful area of the Hill Country. Buying my own piece is a life goal. The low fence hunting is alot like saltwater fishing. You never know what’s going to walk out.
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Posted on 4/6/24 at 6:53 am to Rize
Hey Rize , I got out of my lease in San Saba this year. Didn’t shoot anything but hogs for the last two years. The only reason I had it was for my son and I. If you need someone to take an Axis doe or two for the freezer, I live between Austin and Marble Falls.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 7:59 am to Rize
If I recall correctly, an Auodad is a trophy at 27” horns and a great one at 30”.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 9:45 am to Lago Gato
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Hey Rize , I got out of my lease in San Saba this year. Didn’t shoot anything but hogs for the last two years. The only reason I had it was for my son and I. If you need someone to take an Axis doe or two for the freezer, I live between Austin and Marble Falls.
Where were you at in San Saba? I had some buddies that had a place out there that I went to back behind the women’s prison and it sucked. Nothing but hogs and you might see a deer or two per trip. I was there as a guest so I wasn’t allowed to shoot deer but I did kill some hogs.
I loved the little town but the deer hunting was terrible.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 4:06 pm to Marlo Stanfield
I hunted really close to Mountain Home for years until my sons got too busy adulting to go with me. A long haul from BR solo. So now, instead, I hunt down by Rize in Jim Hogg County.
That’s a super wide spread on that largest Axis buck. Main beams >30” is considered a trophy. Also, when you shoot Axis, have the hides tanned. I have some beautiful furniture covered in Axis hides. Their pelts don’t shed like whitetail hides do.
That’s a super wide spread on that largest Axis buck. Main beams >30” is considered a trophy. Also, when you shoot Axis, have the hides tanned. I have some beautiful furniture covered in Axis hides. Their pelts don’t shed like whitetail hides do.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 5:20 pm to Rize
That big axis is definitely a shooter. I'd leave the audad alone a few years. Sika are everywhere.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 6:14 pm to Marlo Stanfield
We had a place in Junction out behind the rest stop on I-10 that we had axis, blackbuck, sikas on. We'd take a ride down the Segovia road and you'd have to stop to let the axis herds cross. Literally a hundred plus deer just running around wild together stopping traffic and stuff. That eight point gene was strong there too. And I have never seen so many turkeys as I saw driving around one day close to there. Easily fifty plus birds in a flock running up a hill. Looked like a herd of velociraptors in Jurassic Park.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 7:52 pm to Rize
We were right across from Tommy Lee Jones’s ranch on Chapel hill road . 1600 acres , lots of deer but no real big racks. I’m spoiled cause I’ll have 6-8 nice bucks in my yard every day and go to the lease and see small 6-8 points. Even the ones on camera weren’t that big . My son shot a couple does for the freezer. Always looking for a better lease . More for the hanging out , cooking than killing!??????
Posted on 4/6/24 at 8:21 pm to Rize
I owned and lived on a small hill country ranch that had a similar wildlife population.
After a couple of years of hunting it and observing I eventually got to the point where I would ONLY kill yearling Axis bucks.
They were larger than a whitetail and fantastic eating.
The Axis does are always either pregnant or nursing one.
After a couple of years of hunting it and observing I eventually got to the point where I would ONLY kill yearling Axis bucks.
They were larger than a whitetail and fantastic eating.
The Axis does are always either pregnant or nursing one.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 8:21 pm to Rize
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Maybe it’s more central but it’s West of my place in Falfurrias.
I have family out that way you know any of the Lasater family? Pretty much developed that area years ago.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 8:59 pm to highcotton2
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I have family out that way you know any of the Lasater family? Pretty much developed that area years ago.
Not really but my dad may.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 11:12 pm to Rize
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Not really but my dad may
Good book about that area if you are interested.
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