Posted By: Roo Basher
Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/14/15 04:41 AM
Folks,
I am living out in the Mojave desert in California and I need to hunt axis this year in May or June. What is another good exotic to hunt with axis deer that will have good skin color (unlike blackbuck) and a nice looking hide?
Thinking nilgai or something African antelope?
Posted By: Sevens
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/14/15 05:14 PM
Scimitar oryx or addax. They look nice, make great mounts and eat well.
Posted By: C3 guide
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/14/15 06:10 PM
Nilgia are in full swing that time of the year.
Posted By: Roo Basher
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/14/15 10:11 PM
We'll figure something out in a few months.
Since I am flying in to do this, I'd need it pretty turn key.
Taxidermy pick up
Skinning
1/4 and cool the meat so I can bring it out in a couple of coolers with me on the aircraft.
Posted By: Shadeabby
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/14/15 11:07 PM
Check out Adam with doubleshotoutfitters. They can put you on Nilgai and axis the same area.
Posted By: Roo Basher
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/15/15 03:20 AM
I'd like to hunt to be a hunt and not a shoot. The experience matters, you pay for experience, and some times you pay for it and get screwed over. That is a real point of this industry.
I want to be treated like a human and not like a checkbook.
I don't need the best food in the world or the fanciest lodge with 300 channels of tv.
I am thinking about doing a 777 Ranch hunt at the end of the year for Barasingha, that place looks like a pretty good experience. If I lived in Texas and was hunting 40 miles from the house I might be fine with the 1-4 hour whack and stack.
Price point they are a lot higher than I want to pay for axis this summer, even though their daily and guide fee rate of $400 per day is kind of steep. But I feel for $400 a day you are getting your money worth. A lot of other jackasses are charging the same $400-500 per day and I don't know what for.
Posted By: nsmike
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/15/15 05:15 AM
I believe that Woodbury's, can process, freeze and overnight, your meat to you. I'm not sure the cost, but the reduced hassle factor, might make it worth it.
Posted By: ExoticKiller
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/22/15 02:59 AM
I second Double Shot Outfitters!
Posted By: Nontypical3006
Re: Good combo for May/June Axis deer - 02/22/15 04:57 AM
x3 for Double Shot Outfitters. Adam is top notch!
Thanks guys! Roo we will have some great axis and still be able to hunt nilgai at that time. Nilgai is definitely a hunt not a shoot! Let me know if you are interested!
Thanks
Adam