Have a hunting partner who went last weekend. He has a season "deer" lease where the exotics outnumber the whitetail 4 to 1. He said the axis are really in the breeding mode right now, and the bucks are calling all over the pasture.
I call it "roaring" and it is a trait I wish my whitetails could learn. Sends chills up my spine like an upclose turkey gobble!
Anyway, if you can go for axis, now is the perfect time! He killed a real nice 32" old, old buck.
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