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

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.