A friend wants me to kill as many of the Aoudads that are on his Hill Country property as I can. Been sitting AM & PM for the last week. Shot 4 young so far. 3 Ewe. 1 ram.

I am sitting over a corn feeder that goes off just before sunrise and an hour before sunset. Would a bale of alfalfa be a good idea?

Spotlight…….

Sounds like your doing well!

Let me know if you get tired and want to rotate.

These are really tiny animals so far. And the property owner isn't going to want anyone he doesn't know on the property.

Alfalfa will bring ‘em in.

we have had great luck with sweet feed along with alfalfa in west texas ..........

I hunt near Reagan Wells. Sixty-thousand acre low fenced ranch.We have a 1,700 acre "pasture" (3,000 acres if it was flat) covered in Juniper. Hunting pressure is very light as only myself and one other member go up on a regular basis. I've hunted there at least once a month for 3 to 5 days(these days mostly at night w/ thermal) since 2004. I feed persimmon corn, roasted soybeans out of spin-cast units and protein out of on-demand units.. Have six feeders working, all with game cameras, each in a different area. It has been my experience that Aoudad are hard to pattern consistently. One may see them every day for a week or so then not again for a year.

I have not tried Alfalfa.

Of course YMMV.

Best,

GWB

Geedub, Ive seen alfalfa work, but I've also seen corn work. They seem to really like cotton seed, but my experience is like yours, they are near impossible to pattern.

Corn. Always corn.

I don’t think they pattern well to feeding stations but will hit them on their way thru. I’ve gotten pics on game camera of them eating corn when it spins in the morning but nothing else for a week or two. Next thing you know I had pics at 2 in the afternoon when there wasn’t a cornel of corn on the ground but they could smell it in the feeder? If you’re hunting a herd you’re better off hunting in the best grazing areas and setting up on the travel and certainly the escape trails. The first one I took came on a bluff over looking a wheat field that I routinely seen them in but couldn’t get close enough for a shot. I climbed up the opposite side of the bluff and was looking down on them when they winded me and took off. They ran the 300 or so yards directly toward the bluff and went straight up the steep side that had stoped my stalk in the first place. I watched as 12 or so topped the bluff and trotted past me at about 50 yards single file and the mature ram was the last one to top out. He stopped to make sure the others had not encountered any danger and that was his last step! 50 yards or so but my scope was all the up in anticipation of a longer shot he stared at me in awe because I wasn’t supposed to be in his safe space I guess? I was able to get the scope adjusted and make a good shot he dropped. To the OP I apologize for the reminicing but when I went to that ram he died on what I think was the frequently used escape route. After admiring the ram I went 50 yards each way and determined it was most definitely a goat trail but the 50 yards down the bluff was insane and that’s why they used it. Sorry for the long post but I was reminiscing and typing at once. Point being you don’t really ever know where there going to be at a certain time so focus on trails to where they like to graze and trails they use when spooked.