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Anyone ever did a ram hunt in tx?
Posted on 4/16/18 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 4/16/18 at 7:49 pm
Kind of interested to try something different. Any reviews?
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 7:58 pm to oleyeller
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Kind of interested to try something different.
Look into a nilgai hunt. Big animals and their meat is better
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:21 pm to oleyeller
Yes, I went with a buddy to hunt Auodad near Rocksprings. Had an awesome time. It requires a lot of glassing and hiking. The meat wasn't worth a shite though.
This post was edited on 4/17/18 at 8:16 am
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:22 pm to oleyeller
Free range or high fence ?
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:34 pm to Teauxler
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Free range or high fence ?
?? Never done it. Asking opinions on either. Obviously prefer free range, but it seems like a cheap enough hunt to go enjoy either way
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:43 pm to oleyeller
My cousin owns 20k high fences acres near Dryden (big bend) and the lucky sob fenced in on of the last free range ram herds in Txin his pasture when he built the high fence. He sells them for high dollar along with other exotic hunts (he’s been a guide/owner for 35 years).
Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:47 pm to Warrior Poet
sounds awesome.. yet out of my price range 
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:32 pm to oleyeller
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sounds awesome.. yet out of my price range
Look into Aoudad hunts out towards El Paso. They're cheaper and I think they make pretty cool mounts. Meat isn't the greatest, but it's edible.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 9:48 pm to texag7
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Look into a nilgai hunt
This is one i really want to do. Got drawn to do the nilgai hunt in feb at laguna atascosa. Something came up and i couldn't make it. I never get drawn every year and i actually land that one and couldn't make it.
This post was edited on 4/16/18 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 4/16/18 at 10:00 pm to oleyeller
What kind of ram?
Aoudad seems fun but they have so many ram species in Texas it's crazy.
Personally I would go axis or nilgai. Best meat I've had from a game animal.
Lot of the ram operations from what I've seen are small high fence places besides the aoudad. But I'm sure there are exceptions.
Aoudad seems fun but they have so many ram species in Texas it's crazy.
Personally I would go axis or nilgai. Best meat I've had from a game animal.
Lot of the ram operations from what I've seen are small high fence places besides the aoudad. But I'm sure there are exceptions.
Posted on 4/16/18 at 11:00 pm to oleyeller
They're a good mount. Back strap is not terrible but rest of meat is
Posted on 4/16/18 at 11:17 pm to FournetteForEver7
We have 550 acres low fence in South Texas and our neighbors leased their 3500 acres to a bank that has unlimited funds. They buy all kinds of exotics for clients to shoot and they end up on our place. These two ended up at our ranch house by the pond and my dad started feeding them and they hung around until my cousins shot them at the camp
We were just going to let them hang out because they were tame and we had no desire to shoot a tame animal. This post was edited on 4/16/18 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 4/17/18 at 1:08 am to oleyeller
Yep it's out of all our price range even though we're all internet millionaires.
The hunts were something ridiculous. He had some guy offer him huge bucks just for viles of semen from the largest ram (or it's mother if identified?). The guy is the luckiest fricker in the world. He made a lot of money on ostriches, emu, and rea when those were extremely popular - at least in Texas they were our governor at the time had bought in and the state became very pro-bird all of a sudden So he buys in, sells right before the market collapsed, and then bought a million dollars worth of exotics and ran high end guided hunts the next 20 years on 950 acres in the Texas hill country. Then, after unsuccessfully running for sheriff (as a matter of protest regarding poaching enforcement and protection of landowners in general), the crazy bastard decided he'd sell his 950 acres in the hill country and buy 20,000 acres in Dryden, Texas (big bend/Mexico boarder) and high fence the entire thing himself so he could move all his exotics out there. That's exactly what he did; except he fenced in the largest herd of some unique species of ram where there are a limited number of licenses issued each year. And now he flies around checking his ranch in a helicopter made out of a fricking lawn mower engine that has probably had one or two "low altitude crashes." A little off topic but it's just a crazy story.
The hunts were something ridiculous. He had some guy offer him huge bucks just for viles of semen from the largest ram (or it's mother if identified?). The guy is the luckiest fricker in the world. He made a lot of money on ostriches, emu, and rea when those were extremely popular - at least in Texas they were our governor at the time had bought in and the state became very pro-bird all of a sudden
So he buys in, sells right before the market collapsed, and then bought a million dollars worth of exotics and ran high end guided hunts the next 20 years on 950 acres in the Texas hill country. Then, after unsuccessfully running for sheriff (as a matter of protest regarding poaching enforcement and protection of landowners in general), the crazy bastard decided he'd sell his 950 acres in the hill country and buy 20,000 acres in Dryden, Texas (big bend/Mexico boarder) and high fence the entire thing himself so he could move all his exotics out there. That's exactly what he did; except he fenced in the largest herd of some unique species of ram where there are a limited number of licenses issued each year. And now he flies around checking his ranch in a helicopter made out of a fricking lawn mower engine that has probably had one or two "low altitude crashes." A little off topic but it's just a crazy story. Posted on 4/17/18 at 1:10 am to Rize
You guys hit a jackpot right there man.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:38 am to oleyeller
Most of the ram hunts in Texas are sale barn goats. I've been on several axis hunts where I had to get out of the stand and run the goats off. Very few actual free range rams. You can shoot Texas dahl Corsican etc but expect them to stand there and look at you like you are carrying a bag of feed.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:51 am to GATORGAR247
Went in Corsican hunt. Never again. Worst feeling I ever had
Drove around on 4 wheeler til we found them. They stand up, I shoot one. The other two stand there until we get twenty feet from them before they run off They watch us load up there running mate Meat was not good either
Drove around on 4 wheeler til we found them. They stand up, I shoot one. The other two stand there until we get twenty feet from them before they run off They watch us load up there running mate Meat was not good either
This post was edited on 4/17/18 at 7:52 am
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:10 am to Warrior Poet
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the lucky sob fenced in one of the last free range ram herds in Tx
Thanks for ending the free range Ram heard.....
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:13 am to Ron Cheramie
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Drove around on 4 wheeler til we found them. They stand up, I shoot one.
yea i dont want this
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:16 am to oleyeller
You want to hunt Auodad
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:19 am to jgthunt
Axis. It’s what’s for dinner tonight.
I have a free range Corsican ram mount that I shot years ago. The Hill Country processor made what they called a dry ring (summer sausage) out of the meat and it was pretty good. Guy told me any other way and I might as well cook one of my boots.
I have a free range Corsican ram mount that I shot years ago. The Hill Country processor made what they called a dry ring (summer sausage) out of the meat and it was pretty good. Guy told me any other way and I might as well cook one of my boots.
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