sully
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Post by sully on Oct 16, 2009 12:34:38 GMT -5
Got a last minute axis hunt offered to me last night. I've got the truck loaded up and ready to go down to Leakey. I'm leaving work. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.
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Post by duckbutter on Oct 16, 2009 12:38:29 GMT -5
Flippin saweet!
You are gonna have more meat than you know what to do with. Enjoy !
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 16, 2009 13:17:40 GMT -5
dang. That is awesome. Good luck!
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Post by Kickball Kevin on Oct 16, 2009 15:06:15 GMT -5
I've always to go hunt axis. Good luck
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 16, 2009 15:53:07 GMT -5
I've always to go hunt axis too.
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Post by The River Assassin on Oct 16, 2009 16:57:49 GMT -5
Go get'em Sully, should be fun
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sully
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Post by sully on Oct 19, 2009 10:15:44 GMT -5
Well, I had a blast this weekend down in Leakey, TX. This is some of the prettiest land I've ever seen in TX. I used to think the New Braunfels area was good, but this place just blows it away. This is the real hill country. There are deer, axis and other exotics running everywhere. So we get down there late Friday night, after stopping off to eat dinner at Mac and Ernies Roadside Eatery in Tarpley. If you're ever down there, you have to give this place a shot. It's just a roadside stand with a huge smoker next to it. Picnic tables and a small bar outdoors. Outstanding place and food.
Saturday morning we wake up and start hunting. Whitetail does are all over the place, but no axis so far as the sun started creeping up. Next thing you know all the whitetail get spooked and run off. Next thing I know, a herd of 12-15 axis run into the pasture and start grazing. There's a few bucks with the group and one of them was huge! Here's my chance. He stays bunched up with a few does so I don't get a shot til they start making their way across the field. He's on the move, and I can't get him to stop, so once he hits a clearing, I pulled the trigger...Miss! He jumps up and gets out of there like nothing hit him. The rest of them scattered and were out of sight. We checked for blood and followed the trail he ran down and nothing. I'm devastated.
The rest of that day we worked. The landowner and his neighbor were setting 2500 gallon water tanks next to their well houses for a backup supply to their water wells. With the drought the last few years, they've sucked their wells dry. We worked on this all day, then back to hunting. All I saw were a bunch of whitetails again, but no axis. We sat around the campfire, grilled sausage and fajitas and drank beers the rest of the night.
So, the next morning, I get up hoping for some retribution. I'm 100% confident I'll get another shot and decided to use my buddies rifle since I didn't get a chance to check my sights the day before after the big miss. Sure enough, about the same time as the day before...whitetail all spooked off, and herd of axis running in. This time, there are at least 20 of them. And 4-5 bucks. There he was, the same one I shot at the day before, but this time, he just high tailed it all the way across the pasture without pausing for a second. He must have remembered what happened the day before. This sucker was huge and it made me sick at my stomach to see him again and realized how I royally f*ed it. I decided to take the next biggest one, who wasn't no chump himself. He got separated by the herd a little, and I finally got a shot of him standing still. I squeezed the trigger, and flinched a little, but he took a step back and I knew I hit him. Then he runs and jumps the fence, but scrapes his belly on it, so I just knew I got him then. We walked out, no blood. No sign of a hit. Call my John F*ing Fischer! I'm pissed! We wondered down the path across the fence and still no blood. Brandon see one stumbling in the trees ahead of us, but when we get within range he bolts. I got nothing. Returned home empty handed and sick to my stomach. I hate myself.
Well, I got the invite to return anytime so that's good. And for helping the neighbor out with his tank, he asked us to come back to his other ranch across the road and up the hill there for an audad hunt. So, I may get another chance. The places were badass though. Still a good time with the guys.
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 19, 2009 10:24:29 GMT -5
You get a little bit of a pass with the Axis, though. They are supposedly harder to hunt than a whitetail.
I definitely know the feeling. At least you had a great time and get to go back and get him next time.
That would be awesome to kill an aoudad and an axis.
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sully
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Post by sully on Oct 19, 2009 10:27:35 GMT -5
This is about what the big one looked like.  |
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cowtownmike
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 19, 2009 10:29:53 GMT -5
what the hell is that?
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sully
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Post by sully on Oct 19, 2009 11:26:07 GMT -5
The great axis deer I was hunting.
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cowtownmike
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 19, 2009 11:30:23 GMT -5
Never heard of one. Strange looking animal.
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fischer
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Post by fischer on Oct 19, 2009 12:11:52 GMT -5
They are DELICIOUS.
I have had Axis on 2 or 3 occasions. It is way, way better than whitetail.
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sully
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Post by sully on Oct 19, 2009 12:21:24 GMT -5
Plus that thing would look sweet on my wall.
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Post by fischer on Oct 19, 2009 12:31:44 GMT -5
It would.
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