Body is compact with dainty legs. Young are colored like adults and all sexes are the same color. Males grow antlers that are tall, graceful and simple with long brow tines as much as 18 in. Lengths typically 22 to 27 in with some larger at 30 in. Exceptionally matured male would measure 36 to 41 in. Some males are in hard antler at any season, but most during May through December. Most are in velvet February through March. This just depends on the Bucks birth day.
Male weight to lbs and female weight 95 to lbs. Food habits are: Grazer in all seasons, but take some browse and can switch to dependence on browse if grasses decline in quantity and quality.
We start all of our hunts with a noon day 1 meeting, sight in the rifles, and take a trip around the ranch to allow you to get a feel of your new surroundings. During our short drive we will usually spot a few axis bucks and allow you to get a decent size reference to ensure we are all on the same page about what we are after.
After a quick break and snack the real hunting will begin. Your guide will come up with the best plan possible for harvesting a trophy buck. We have a few articles for your reading enjoyment to help you see what type of hunting you might be doing depending on what time of year you are hunting with us CLICK HERE for the velvet info. After the afternoon and morning hunts we will always return to the lodge for a home cooked meal and fellowship around the table or campfire.
Upon killing your Axis buck, your guide will assist in pictures, caping, cleaning, quartering and getting your trophy on ice. On this hunt your only responsibility is to be safe, shoot straight, and have fun, we will take care of the rest. We run upwards of Texas Axis deer hunts each year and our clients continue to harvest trophy after trophy. Our success for has been phenomenal and we are averaging a consistent " with our largest being over 36" this season.
The beauty of hunting Axis deer with BWGS is that we have 3 separate herds and do not have to play by the "rut" rule that most outfitters will try to trick you into. Sure, axis have a heavier rut in the summer months but don't be conned into believing that June-August is the best if not only months to harvest a monster Axis buck.
The reasoning you will hear this from outfitters is usually one of two scenarios. Either they don't have "winter" bucks, meaning that their axis herd is only hard horned during the summer months; Or they are trying to offset their earnings by focusing on whitetail during the winter while hoping to market people into hunting Axis deer during the summer.
We leave the choice up to you as to what part of the year you would like to hunt. The winter gives you a better opportunity at harvesting a trophy axis buck over bait while the summer months give you a better opportunity at harvesting a trophy axis buck who has let his guard down while chasing doe. Both seasons have proved to provide great quality axis deer. The axis deer, or chital is native to India. It dons a bright reddish coat covered in white spots that remain throughout life.
Antlers of males are large but simple, usually with only three points. Adult males weigh up to pounds and females 35 percent less. The axis deer was first introduced into Texas in the s and now occurs in at least forty-five counties.
Largest numbers occur on the Edwards Plateau, where the dry scrub vegetation resembles that of its native habitat in India. The meat is finely textured and tender. Their diet consists of about one-third grass and a combination of wild herbs and tender new growth on brush and trees.
Other than their native habitat in India and Nepal, Axis grow in significant numbers only on the island of Lanai in Hawaii where they were introduced over years ago as a gift to the King of Hawaii , on a few deer farms in Australia, and on ranches here in the Texas Hill Country. This makes it one of the rarest of all venisons available for purchase.
Here in the Texas Hill Country, many ranchers raise a wide variety of non-native deer and antelope.
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