Free Range TX Exotics (Part 2)

Drum roll....Ok guys here is Part 2. Similar to Part 1, l will need everyones participation, but responses are even more important with this one. The more responses l receive the better the “Grand Reveal” will be which l will post up 1 week from today

Below is a run down of the information that should be contained within your replies and some basic ground rules:

Requested Info Overview

Only using the three animals that were finalized during Part 1 (Axis, Aoudad, and Black Buck) reply back with the County name and animals from this list that you have either seen or harvested in a free range environment. Whether it was seen vs killed does not make a difference and counts all the same so there is no need to specify which applies. Also l still want responses if “None of the above” applies

Basic Rules

1) Pics on “YOUR” game camera but not seen in person COUNTS!
2) Second hand stories, online pics, Facebook, etc DOES NOT COUNT
3) No duplicate posts. If someone has already posted that county and animal then no need to repost

Ok sure there will be other questions but that’s it for now. Let it begin!

Actually l will go ahead and start:

Lavaca - None of the above
Uvalde - Axis and Aoudad

Gillespie County- Axis and Blackbuck

Mason county - Axis and Blackbuck

Saw Audad about a mile from our place in Llano county

Mills - blackbuck
Tom Green - blackbuck, axis

Val Verde County has all 3 of them.

Clay county- none of the above
Archer county- none of the above

Free range seen and harvested in Bandera county:

Axis, sika and aoudad. I killed the # 28 SCI Sika with a bow in Bandera county. If they would properly classify them it would probably be # 1 for a jap sika.

Seen and shot axis in Comal and Kendall County.

Concho County (2017 - 2019)

1. Axis - Zero
2. Aoudad - Zero
3. Black Buck - Three total (2 male 1 female) spotted in 2017 and 2018 - not seen at all in 2019 and I suspect the tall broomweed everywhere allowed the coyotes to kill them all

Llano County, Seen all 3, killed aoudad and Axis
Kendall county - Killed Blackbuck
Kimble - Killed Axis
Presidio - Saw Aoudad

San Saba - Blackbuck

Sutton - killed axis (10+) and bb (5+); saw aoudad (fallow, too)
Brown - none of the above
Coleman - aoudad (1 time; game cam)

Armstrong, Donley, Briscoe, Hall - Aoudad
Llano - axis
Burnet - axis, blackbuck
Lampasas - axis
Williamson - none
Mason - axis, blackbuck
Kimble - axis, blackbuck
Menard - axis, blackbuck
Kimble - axis, blackbuck
Sutton - axis
Crockett - axis, aoudad
Freestone - none

Lampasas - Axis

Aoudad-Young County

Interesting post. I would love to see a map of the range of exotics. I missed part 1, is this for a study?
Mason, Menard and Bandera have been covered.

Kimble- Killed axis and blackbuck. All 3 on camera.

San Saba
Axis 0
Blackbuck 1
Aoudad 1

Palo Pinto-Aoudad
Young-0 that's deer also lol

Not sure what you want on "none of the above" but I have never seen one at all and ive hunted Williamson, Travis, Burnet, Gillespie, Pecos, Brewster, Smith, Frio, Webb, Lasalle, Shackleford, Throckmorton, Cottle. For what its worth the Hill Country counties were all a long time ago.

Thank you. Good question and l should have clarified this up front. If your going to provide this answer then it needs to be a county that you have spent a decent amount of time hunting within. So a one time hunt in that county or just saying you drive through would NOT qualify as having enough field experience to respond “none of the above” which essentially rules out a free range population of these animals. On the other hand, going under the assumption of “Where there’s 1 there’s more where that came from” so one time hunts and we will call it repeated sightings while driving (for which you are certain are within a low fence) would in fact qualify for responses on counties that confirm the free range existence of these animals

Aoudad in Fisher and Knox .

Aoudad in Cooke County
I do believe a lease guy killed the last one spotted though several years ago. The story is a GW or someone from TP&W released a few in the area many years ago.
Haven't seen any in many years.

Stephens County - All three...Axis was a road kill!

Edwards county
Axis
Aoudad
Black buck

Kerr

axis, buck and doe
blackbuck

both species harvested

last two years, all have disappeared from property

I have killed free range axis in :
Uvalde co
Kerr co
Bandera co
Real co
Kendall co

I have killed free range aoudad in :
Uvalde co
And seen free range aoudad in : Real Co

I have seen free range Blackbuck in :
Uvalde co
Bandera co
Kerr co

There is a free range axis population East of Falfurrias in Brooks county. I’ve seen them on several occasions

All free range

Mason -All three
Bandara axis
Kerr-all three
Gillespie all three
Concho all three
McCollough all three
Kimble all three
Tom Green-all three
Victoria-axis Blk buck
Coleman all three
Aransas -axis Blk buck
Webb-axis Blk buck
Erath-all three
Pecos Aoudad
Crockett aoudad
Jeff davis-Aoudad
Potter-Aoudad
Hartley-Aoudad

I have actually seen 2 Aoudad in NE Stephens County and also have pics of them on game camera.

Update...Responses have exceeded expectations, so big thanks to everyone who has replied! To date, l have 56 of the 254 counties in Texas represented. Will be taking submissions up through 7:00 pm tomorrow night and then doing the final consolidation. So there is still time if you have a new county to add or animals that are different for a county that has already been posted

Callahan-one aoudad in 15 years, on cam
Shackelford-none

None in Freestone county

Val Verde County- Aoudad
Randall County- Aoudad
Uvalde County-Axis Deer

Real county

All of the above and then some.

Erath county

All of the above

Dickens none of the above.......Edwards killed axis and auodad.

Has anyone ever saw any Axis in the SHNF? Last june I had either an Axis doe or the biggest white tail fawn I've ever saw run across a road in front of me. I've hunted that area for 40 years and this was the first time I've saw that

OP...When are you posting the tallied results. Interesting feedback so far.

McCulloch county is covered with axis. The city of Brady has a contract to catch axis at the lake. They reported last week they had captured over 80 head and received around 14 thousand for their share of the sales. There are still tons of them running loose. There are black buck and lots of other species in the county.

road kill democrat

I've seen free range axis with my own eyes in Kimble and Menard counties. I've seen free range blackbuck with my own eyes in Mason, Llano, Kimble and Blanco counties. I've seen free-range Aoudad with my own eyes in Llano, Mason and Kimble counties. We have an axis doe on cameras at our place in Blanco county, but it's the only one we've ever seen and never seen it with my own eyes so I'm not going to count it (yet). Spotted axis road kill in Williamson, Burnet & Blanco counties.

Brown County: Have seen free range Axis was a hunt-able heard
Parker County: None of the three multiple properties
Hood County:None of the three

I have good pics of Aoudad and Axis from game cams on my ranch in Blanco County.

Jack - none of the above
Taylor - none of the above
Young - none of the above
Comanche - none of the above
Coleman - none of the above
Parker - none of the above
Coke - 2 axis bucks taken, herd of blackbucks seen regularly on neighboring property, none taken, aoudad - none seen

La Salle County -axis
Bee County - axis
Goliad County - axis
Colorado County- axis
Pecos County aoudad
Kent County- aoudad
Kendall County- axis
Medina County- axis

So what happened to the results??