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Sounds like weather they are good to eat or not just depends on how hungry you really are!
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[quote=Ohio7x57]Ingwe, any with a 7x57 or .223?
Ron[/quoteYeah two of the four were taken with the 7x57
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After 25 years of Texas Hill Country hunting, and 15 years of year round game cam photos in such locales as Brackettville, Rock Springs, Vanderpool and Reagan Wells, on ranches of 3,000 to 60,000 acres, it has been my experience that, Aoudad are targets of opportunity. Whether one has feeders or box blinds, one does not "pattern" Aoudad. They may show up every day for a week and not be back, ever. My experience as well, hunting blinds and feeders on one ranch I got a nice ram, it was three years before I got another on the place.
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Awesome. Headed to Texas in a week for my first Auodad hunt, can’t wait Good luck! Take some pics to share with us. Wherabouts are you hunting? I will! Hunting with Heart of Texas Outfitters, actually they have been sort of secretive about exactly where… meeting the guide in Alpine the morning of the first day and will follow him to the ranch. I believe it butts up against one of the Big Bend parks
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I see them randomly, sometimes every weekend, then a whole year between
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Are any of them fit to eat?
I've heard that even coyotes won't eat them.
I have no experience hunting them. Yep. Taste like meat. Never had an issue.
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I’ve read they are good but tough and grinding is recommended. Worth keeping back straps as steaks? I probably will and can always make jerky if they’re super tough. I plan to make a lot of breakfast sausage
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Aoudad, If your planning on eating what you shoot, kill a young female, the big rams aren't very tasty,
my dogs won't eat Aoudad. Rio7
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Mine smelled worse than a dead cow that's been laying in the sun for a week. No way I could have ate that thing
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Are they in West Texas only? Or are they more widely distributed?
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Are they in West Texas only? Or are they more widely distributed?
Ron I don’t know. Damn good question
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Are they in West Texas only? Or are they more widely distributed?
Ron They are also in New Mexico, long draw odds
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After 25 years of Texas Hill Country hunting, and 15 years of year round game cam photos in such locales as Brackettville, Rock Springs, Vanderpool and Reagan Wells, on ranches of 3,000 to 60,000 acres, it has been my experience that, Aoudad are targets of opportunity. Whether one has feeders or box blinds, one does not "pattern" Aoudad. They may show up every day for a week and not be back, ever. My experience as well, hunting blinds and feeders on one ranch I got a nice ram, it was three years before I got another on the place. Keep up the good work fellas. Aoudad when and where you can.....that's my motto as well.
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Are they in West Texas only? Or are they more widely distributed?
Ron I don’t know. Damn good question We've killed them in the Trans Pecos (West TX), the South Plains area near Post/Justiceburg, and the TX Panhandle near Clarendon. They are quite prolific so I'm sure they're expanding their range faster than anyone can shoot them. Badasss animal is an understatement.
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Awesome. Headed to Texas in a week for my first Auodad hunt, can’t wait Good luck! Take some pics to share with us. Wherabouts are you hunting? I will! Hunting with Heart of Texas Outfitters, actually they have been sort of secretive about exactly where… meeting the guide in Alpine the morning of the first day and will follow him to the ranch. I believe it butts up against one of the Big Bend parks Badass country. You'll have a blast.
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Are they in West Texas only? Or are they more widely distributed?
Ron I don’t know. Damn good question We've killed them in the Trans Pecos (West TX), the South Plains area near Post/Justiceburg, and the TX Panhandle near Clarendon. They are quite prolific so I'm sure they're expanding their range faster than anyone can shoot them. Badasss animal is an understatement. That’s why we kill all we can
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Are they in West Texas only? Or are they more widely distributed?
Ron I don’t know. Damn good question We've killed them in the Trans Pecos (West TX), the South Plains area near Post/Justiceburg, and the TX Panhandle near Clarendon. They are quite prolific so I'm sure they're expanding their range faster than anyone can shoot them. Badasss animal is an understatement. That’s why we kill all we can Amen brother!
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