Hill Country Hunt

[Clampy]

Originally Posted by specktator

Nice axis. I killed a big one a few years ago in Sonora on my uncle's place. I just got in the lease with him this year mainly for the spring turkey hunting. Covered with turkeys. Place just doesn't hold really BIG whitetails. Guess cause of the hill country. Plenty of bucks just nothing really bigger than 110-120". Maybe they are just shooting too many young ones. I got a better chance of shooting a 130+" buck at my place in St Francisville during the rut without having to make that 10 hour ride. I might make one trip this deer season. The exotics are what make it exciting to hunt.

Yeah they just don't get big over there. Gotta feed heavy protein to get them big. You will get big wide racks tall tines but just no mass what so ever.
This axis was a baby compared to the one I shot when I was 19.
36.5" tall
23" inside
Didn't weigh it but was prolly 220ish.
I will post a pic of the mount this eve.