Well, after years of wanting to go somewhere & hunt something (& the recent realization that with my son's fall football schedule I wouldn't be taking a week to go out west for the next 10 years or so) I finally decided to hunt Red Stag in Texas at Hunt's Bowhunting Ranch. We had a great time - we'll definitely go back (my son thinks we need to do it every Labor day weekend). Only had 2 days, but we hunted 4 times and had exactly 1 shot at one deer - fortunately it was a nice, heavy 6 X 7 stag and it all worked out well (I'll post a picture when I have more time).
My biggest fear was that I'd get down there & all of the animals would be just standing around waiting for an arrow. And some of the goats and rams basically do. But the Sika, Fallow & Red Deer as well as the Blackbuck & Aoudad were all very easily spooked & wild. We tried a couple of stalks on some fallow does - and it was just like hunting whitetails - they spot you @ 100 yards & they're gone. It was really cool. Glad I tried exotics again. I'd have no desire to hunt any of the goats or less than wild rams (probably better for beginners), but the deer were a lot of fun to hunt - got an early start for deer season this year.
