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Tom,
good stuff. What happend to the McFlame? .223 not enough?
On the taxi - Payton L., you now, the ADL kid, and some of the guides are working at a taxi in Uvalde. Might be the same bunch, in which case, it might be good to give them a heads up.
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Carl, Thanks. I got home, cut up meat and found that Uncle Randy had mistakenly stuck my hides in my cooler. If the condition is OK on them, I'll have my local taxi do them. My horns are going to Uvalde for a European mount. The .223AI didn't get used. I took it out, checked it at the target range down there in 92 degree heat and fired one shot. Blew the primer.......H335. Don't let anyone tell you its not temperature sensitive. It will do the same here in a hot barrel or on a hot day....most of my hunting isn't on hot days... So I put it away and used the Icon .243 loaded with 4064...no problem of course.
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Hope the hides are OK. I hear you on the powder... Primers I want to stay in the pocket.
Axis are worth it. I hear told, they are just about palatable..
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Yeah, they're probably the best deer venison.... Hide wise, if they didn't make it, I found I can order a couple from the net at just about the price it costs to get them tanned. Just hoping mine made it cause they were both well marked, black striped down the back etc. If they don't make it, maybe I'll have an excuse to go back!!
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Congrats - those are both really fine trophies!! Might need to try that one day, and since I already have a .243 to take along what could be more fun than to chase axis this time of year.
Thanks for posting!!
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Yeah, they are starting to do a little marketing towards that end. Early June is the rut for Axis, thats when you'll find a lot of activity and more hard-horned specimens. You can't hunt anything else in june, you can't beat the meat for table fare,and anyone who says axis aren't good game, hasn't hunted them. We lucked out big time on this trip, temps were in the 80s with a nice breeze. The instant we quit hunting it went to its normal no wind and 100 degrees!
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ingwe, do they hunt earlier than June?? I used to squeeze in hunts for them in late March and early April.. That was during the years I had to work, and had a week long break in that time period.. Temps were great, but lots of bucks were in velvet..
Went once in early June, than the heat about did me in..
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Carl, Thanks. I got home, cut up meat and found that Uncle Randy had mistakenly stuck my hides in my cooler. If the condition is OK on them, I'll have my local taxi do them. My horns are going to Uvalde for a European mount. The .223AI didn't get used. I took it out, checked it at the target range down there in 92 degree heat and fired one shot. Blew the primer.......H335. Don't let anyone tell you its not temperature sensitive. It will do the same here in a hot barrel or on a hot day....most of my hunting isn't on hot days... So I put it away and used the Icon .243 loaded with 4064...no problem of course. My exact finding back in 1996 when I built mine and used some of Steve Timm's data from VH. At the time I was living in Midland and it was hot. Bing...
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ingwe, do they hunt earlier than June?? I used to squeeze in hunts for them in late March and early April.. That was during the years I had to work, and had a week long break in that time period.. Temps were great, but lots of bucks were in velvet..
Went once in early June, than the heat about did me in.. Yeah, you can do an earlier hunt for them, but as you said, a lot will be in velvet. Im glad it didn't get to 100 while we were hunting...I can't stand that.were I to go again, it would be earlier in May....
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Thanks that is more my time...
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I have hunted axis in July and August and the heat was tolerable, because unlike mad dogs and Englishmen, we didn't go out in the noonday sun.
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I didn't go out in the midday sun either....but Im a big wimp. If Im doing anything in that kind of heat, its standing in a cool trout stream What time of year was it when you killed your big one?
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I found this Link for the Ranch. http://canyonranchtx.com/index.htmlLooks like a nice place to hunt!
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Tom nice pics thanks for sharing. Shocked you left the Ingwe special home but 'spose yer mistresses need love & attention too!
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Got that one in late August, about an hour north of where you hunted.
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Congratulations on a fine hunt.
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Congrats Tom not sure how I missed this until now. Glad to see your luck changed since the Hog Hunt at 7ADL.
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Congrats! I should look into that hunt, myself.
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I couldn't recommend it more highly.
More highlier?
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