My brother is there and doesn't hunt. He sends me pics of herds in his yard eating from the bird feeder.............lol.

 

I’m not trying to rain on your parade, BUT,

just know, axis are the wariest, spookiest deer on the planet earth. Unless you are planning to rifle hunt them, it ain’t that easy!!!!!!! And even if you do hunt them with rifles, they will likely clear out when you shoot one, at least for a while anyway.

Good luck on your move if it happens!

Bisch


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I’m not trying to rain on your parade, BUT,

just know, axis are the wariest, spookiest deer on the planet earth. Unless you are planning to rifle hunt them, it ain’t that easy!!!!!!! And even if you do hunt them with rifles, they will likely Lear out when you shoot one, at least for a while anyway.

Good luck on your move if it happens!

Bisch

Thank you!
That sounds exciting even more of a challenge. Rifle first, then fill it out. Maybe get a decent blind. Since I've posted this thread, I've seen all kinds of videos on YouTube.
I'm excited as hell at the prospect.

Edit:

Also, from what deadquiet said in the post above yours.

"My brother is there and doesn't hunt. He sends me pics of herds in his yard eating from the bird feeder.............lol."

Depending on the property I get I don't know if it's gonna be such an issue. Ha Ha Ha.

 

Is there any land for me?

 

Congratulations on your possible upcoming move, and good luck in your endeavors. My wife and I have been going to a ranch west of San Antonio the past few years for exotics and going again this upcoming February. Shot an Axis deer with my bow the first time we hunted there……40 yard broadside shot from a ground blind. They are absolutely fantastic to eat.

 

I'm in Texas and hunt axis too. Bisch is correct. You can shoot at an axis at 30 yards and they will be 3 steps from where they were standing by the time your arrow gets there. But your freezer should be full in Texas anyway. We have tons of exotics and pigs on top of the white tail..

 

I can put you on to a place for sale right in the middle of some of the hottest axis territory in Texas. There have been about forty of the stupid things hit by cars in the last nine months in a one-mile

stretch of road. My wife hit one of them. It is a weekly (at least) topic of conversation at lunch. We can't believe how many have been killed and they just keep coming. Buddy of mine shot a nice buck two weeks ago. Now he says there is an even bigger one showing up at his feeder.

 

We have a lease in Salt gap. Back toward melvin I wish there were axis in our area. I've been trying to find a lease with axis for a few years .

 

I don't know of any leases around here. You can see how close I live to this hot spot if you look for the pin marked HOME. It is maybe 2 1/2 miles away and we have only seen a couple of does on our place in the last ten years. There have been a couple of them hit by cars east of us about a mile and a half. I really would like for them to move in on us. They are very tasty animals.

 

Yeah, I couldn't find any property for lease over there. I also looked it up on HAR/Zillow I think the cheapest place that I can find over there is $519,000.
It probably was around half that only a couple years ago. I wouldn't feel right going after a property for that much knowing not just a blink of an eye ago it was probably around $250,000.
Other than that there's quite a few Multi million dollar property is over there.
(1596 Mule Creek Rd, Talpa, TX 76953 - HAR.com)

 

I did not know about this. Hope you have a comfy couch for me CELT

 

Hard to hunt, excellent table fare, large bodied. I've bowhunted them 5 different times on 4 day hunts. I've seen them but in all those hours in a stand I had 1 in range. I arrowed him at 25 yds, my last day & last hour of the hunt in a pouring rain & watched him drop.. When I got to him, he had no horns. His 2 jumps & both fell out. The next day he would not have been legal where I was hunting. One thing, they breed at various times so you may have hard horns year round. Fallow Deer are also great eating & found all around the state. I've arrowed a couple of those in past years. Lots of Exotics in many areas & Pigs for sure. Good luck in your possible adventure.

 

I would still love the challenge.........that's why we bowhunt. I'm trying to get someone near him to let me hunt there but it's like everything else......they all say sure until you start to make plans and then here come all the excuses.........lol. He lives in a large lot subdivision out in the sticks and that's why they see so many. Can't hunt his land........sadly.

But if I could I wouldn't have fun hunting the bird feeder.

 

My brother lives in Texas as well as my elderly mother. I hunt hogs down there. I really want move down there, but the wife isn’t sold just yet. I am excited for you. Axis deer are very tasty, indeed.

 

Everything in Texas Is for lease. Once you get in the area and start talking to people you will find a lease.. around February spots start opening up for the next year.. I'm headed out Tuesday evening for an Axis hunt...

 

You should be very excited. I have a feeling once you get to TX, and feel how hot it can be, you will adjust your hunting schedule to the cooler months of the calendar. Lol.

 

I'm already in Texas Ha Ha Ha. I'm in Houston right now, but I lived in Copperas Cove by Fort Hood before that. I love it out in the West hill country. We had to move to WA for a while, and then Hawaii, but we finally made it back out this way. It's a different kind of heat over here in Houston, I hate it. I feel like a wet sock.