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My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 04:15 AM
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Jeff in TX
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I was down at my buddies place in Rocksprings on an Axis deer hunt. I'd pushed the hunt out three times since my Covid recovery has been tougher and much slower than I hoped. It was great to finally get out and hunt again. I was looking for a 30" plus axis. I wasn't seeing anything but in the mid to high 20's but nothing with a lot of mass and size. Also, many of the bucks showed freeze effects on their horns from this past bitter cold winter. We came over the hill into a large herd of Scimitar's Oryx. I thought for a moment, I've never taken one of these, so I switched gears on the hunt. I dropped him at 120 yards with a 143 gr ELD-X bullet from my 6.5 Creedmoor. My buddy said it was the first in and out shot on a scimitar he'd ever seen. I broke both front shoulders and he didn't go very far before dropping. He bottomed out the scale at 350 lbs. We figured he was 375 lbs to 400 on the high side. Very fun hunt, next summer I'll go after my 30" axis.
Last edited by Jeff in TX; 07/10/21 04:16 AM.
Distance is not an issue, but the wind can make it interesting!
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 11:23 AM
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Congrats. The meat is great and they make a great mount.
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 12:13 PM
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Awesome! Oryx is good eating.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 12:25 PM
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 01:35 PM
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Cabin rental in Pagosa Springs, Co. Sleeps 10, If interested please PM me.
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 02:03 PM
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Very nice. That's a bucket list animal for me.
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 02:25 PM
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 04:06 PM
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Very cool! That is on my bucket list as well. Nice to hear the good report on bullet performance. It is what it shoot also.
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 06:13 PM
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Nice!!!! You will really enjoy the meat!!!!!!
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/10/21 08:26 PM
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He’ll make a beauty of a mount. Congratulations.
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/11/21 01:19 AM
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Really nice Oryx, congrats!
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/11/21 03:48 AM
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Congrats. The meat is great and they make a great mount.
LETS GO BRANDON
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/13/21 09:54 PM
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Adapt and survive. Nicely done
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/14/21 07:51 PM
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nice oryx, he carries some solid mass all the way up.
that eld-x does a number on them.
Stuff my dad said in the deer blind
"I can dive deeper and come up drier" "did you do that?"
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/19/21 09:09 PM
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I think that you chose well a year will give you a better axis trophy and you took a beautiful trophy this year.
for every stereotype there's a prototype don't be the prototype
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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07/20/21 11:39 AM
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Beautiful animal! Congrats
High fence, low fence, no fence, it really doesn't matter as long as you're hunting!
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Re: My Axis deer hunt took a different direction
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08/05/21 02:49 AM
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Cant go wrong with scimitar
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