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Offline markc

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Tuesday Axis
« on: March 18, 2010, 04:16:00 PM »
Shot this guy Tuesday morning at my place outside Carta Valley.  He came in with another Axis buck.  In velvet, nice mass on the main beams. 

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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2010, 04:44:41 PM »
 ;D congradulations ! He is a nice  buck..how long were the main beams????????What did you use to down him?  It has b een years since I shot an axis buck......
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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2010, 06:40:05 PM »
Wow Mark NICE! Makes me wish I were there.
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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2010, 06:53:37 PM »
Very nice Axis, Mark! now the best part is the eating! We just got our Axis (5) back from processing and My wife made some hamburger steaks a couple of days ago and they were better than beef!  A friend says a 30% mixture of beef briskit makes it good! I dunno how it could be better than it is.

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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2010, 05:08:13 PM »
Thanks guys,  can you believe that I did not measure those horns?  He is at a taxidermist in Del Rio, so when I get him back, all dried out I can measure.  His beams were really thick as you can see in the pick.  The taxidermist commented on the brown tines being long.  I saw a  few there in the studio and they all were much thinner more spindly horns than this one.  Maybe the high protein deer peas I fed all winter helped out. 

I shot him with the new Remington R-25, .243, Rem Core Lokt 100 gr ammo. He ran about 10 yards when I fired and just stod there.  I was so excited I thought I might have missed, so I popped him again and he fell over backwards.  Both rounds had hit him just fine. 

I saw the other buck the following afternoon down in the same dry creek bottom. 
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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2010, 07:44:24 AM »
NICE! I got my axis one night two years at about 10:00 pm. My cousin had shot a pig that afternoon and asked me to help him find it. So we found his pig and hauled it back to his house to bucher. After we had finished I offered to haul to guts, from the pig as well as from the deer he shot that morning, off sence I only live a mile away. I was on my atv with the guts in a barrel on the rear rack as I crossed the cattle guard that enters my place, when to the right of the road in the head lights, out of the tall weeds stood a axis buck. We live on a low fence ranch so the buck had obviously come from somewere else. I had never seen eny free rangeing exotics before and was pretty suprised. I drew my glock 10mm, which I had taken to track the pig with, and fired a shot from about 35 yards away. The buck ran about 100 yards, and I plucked the 180gr gold dot from under the off side skin from a high lung shot.
But he wasen't as big as yours. :D
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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2010, 09:59:42 PM »
A couple of years ago I went to Tapateo Springs, a golf resort west or Bourne, and saw Axis Deer running around in yards and fields along the way. 
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Re: Tuesday Axis
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2010, 05:12:34 AM »
Sourdough, Axis are in abundance in the Tx hill coutry in many areas.  They are a non-native species that is a bit too abundant in some areas, and can be a threat to native Whitetail when the food sources are thin.   Plus, they are fantastic eating..
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