Fallow Buck taken during the rut from Oxfordshire using a 30.06
Muntjak Doe again from Oxfordshire with a .243
Am up in Scotland this weekend so i will try and get you some pics of Roe & Sika to have a look at.
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Guy Baxendale |
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Fallow Buck taken during the rut from Oxfordshire using a 30.06
Am up in Scotland this weekend so i will try and get you some pics of Roe & Sika to have a look at.
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Troy9 |
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Guy, thanks for sharing those Pic's. It is great to see the different types of game that is out there. Is that doe tasty? You and I could get a 6-pack of
Sub Buns and mushrooms and onions and eat that little critter up in 1 sitting. That is a small species of deer and I have never seen anything like it. Very
interesting and thanks again for sharing.
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whiteynut WT |
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I"ll say thanks for posting the pics as well
I like the look of the fallow deer; what's a normal live weight for them? Looking forward to more
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Colorado Outfitter |
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Congrats on your success, thanks for sharing the pics!!
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sarge |
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texas has some great exotic hunting. we literally have hundreds of species of exotic game including that spotted fallow some other popular exotics are axis blackbuck red deer (red stag) gemsbok scimitar horned oryx auodad ibex corican rams barbado ( and tons of other types of rams) zebra eland nilgai sika (japanese and dabowski)
there are many more, but yall should come on down!! |
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whiteynut WT |
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Are any of them free range in Texas Sarge?
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Guy Baxendale |
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Thanks folks -
Had a very successful 3 days in Scotland taking 2 Roe with a .243 and 3 Sika with a 30.06 I have some pic of one of the Sika - not great ones but I might post them later in the week. We have six Species of deer in the UK - in order of size they are as follows: Red - native to the UK and our largest mammal- largest number in Scotland (circa 350,000) but present in several other areas of the UK. Typically between 90-140kg but with exceptional feeding up to 190kg+ Fallow - Reintroduced by the Normans in the 11th century so not strictly native. 40-95kg typically - the one in the photo was at the upper end of this. Sika - Two sub species the Japanese & Manchurian both escapees from deer parks and now well established in many parts of the UK. Typically 40-60kg. Very hard to shoot as they are very nocturnal animal and have little or no routine to their movements. Roe - native through the UK. Typical weights between 18-27kg. The best eating deer in the UK IMO Muntjac - Introduced from China by the Duke of Bedford to his deer park but have since escaped and found Britain very much to its likeing and is spreading very fast. A large one might make 15kg. Chinese Water deer - Escapee and present in only a small area of the UK. Again a very large one might make 15kg.
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Troy9 |
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Guy:
Try to post those other pic's when you get a moment, also do you have any pic's of the terrain you are hunting? Would be interesting to see. thanks my friend |
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Troy - most of the ground is like the above picture - acid heather moorland. The Roe tend to live out on the open hillside as they are a small deer and can
easily conceal themselves amongst the bracken and heather which makes them very tricky to spot - particularly in their winter coats. The Sika live in the large
blocks of coniferous forestry, one of which can be seen as a thin dark line along the ridge of the hill is the near distance. They are very nocturnal and only
venture onto the open hill to feed in the dark, however, they can be intercepted in the very early morning and the late evening on the way to/ from their
feeding grounds with shot typically being taken in very poor light. They are also very 'nervy' and have little or no routine which added to the fact
that they are very hard deer indeed (they can take alot of punishment and require a well placed bullet) they are a tricky customer all round.
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Michigander.michiganoutdoor... |
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That is some beautiful scenery and what a view. |
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Here is one of the Sika taken in Scotland last weekend - not looking his best i'm afraid after bouncing around on the back of a quad whilst getting out of
some pretty rough ground.
A three year old or so i would say. Taken with just enough light in the scope to be able to shoot on the edge of a forestry block.
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Troy9 |
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Guy that is some good looking landscape. Nice sitka deer and good shooting!!!
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sarge |
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there are some that are free range that had escaped from other ranches or some that ranchers just let loose. The axis deer (native to India) are all over the
place.
Nilgai (also native to India) are free range on a few racnhes...mainly because fences cannot hold them. They can dig under or just go through them (they get to be almost 900 pounds for the bigger ones) Most are under a high fence and are a source of invcome for ranchers...keep in mind that TX ranches are HUGE, so even a high fenced hunt is pretty challenging (picture 60,000 acres...some ranches are more than a quarter million acres here) |
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whiteynut WT |
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Great looking country Guy, nice animals as well.
& Thanks Sarge, I figured there would be some exotics climbing fences. I've seen on some other boards that guys are still heading to Africa for exotics. Not that I'm thinking about a trip to Texas, but it seems that it would be a better option for those in NA looking to hunt something different
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