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You can pattern them if you are using the right snack. And, the snack has to be in pretty heavy cover. I saw the biggest one I’ve ever seen last week, he’d go 500-600lbs and I’m glad I weren’t the only one that saw him.

I don’t shoot them and I think they know this. I have a few herds and a bunch of youngins.

I’d like to hunt one. Anyone know outfitters in Texas. I travel for a living and can be there. Please PM
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I shot one out near Sanderson with Dan Moody (Four Seasons Hunting Outfitters) This was back in 2007.

Will post a review of Heart of Texas outfitters next week or so. Hopefully it’s a good hunt

I'd like to see that myself! The biggest one I killed barely made it over the #300 mark

We were sitting eating sandwiches on the Frio, our phones over at the truck so no pictures. The first thing I thought was a cow, second thing that crossed my mind was no wonder I carry a Big Bore.

I have only taken one and that was because I was doing a guy a favor. A navy buddy of mine had a grandfather that owned a place near Pearsall TX and some aoudads got off a high fenced place and were on his place. He didnt want them there so he told us to come shoot them to chase them away.

Mission accomplished

Damn nice

Give Mulie Mike a pm. West Texas Outfitters. I had a javelina hunt with him at the end of January near Apline TX. He has quite a few ranches with aoudad

He posts here---Mulie Mike

Thanks. He resides here now. The blackbuck came off the same place on the same trip. They escaped from the same high fence place. I will never turn down a free blackbuck.

Gonna cost a few bucks, but his hunters have killed some whoppers

Great! We are already covered up with pigs, and not the aoudads are coming!!

We have both

In January at the Dallas Safari Club convention I visited with the folks of the Texas Bighorn Society. They work to get bighorn sheep reintroduced into the mountains in west Texas.

I asked them how the bighorn numbers were doing and they said there's been a 55% death loss due to a respiratory disease that the auodad carry. Like hogs, sport hunting alone won't kill enough aoudad to make a difference in the aoudad numbers, so they're working on legislation to make it legal to shoot them from helicopters.

That would be fun

A ranch family I know near Sierra Blanca TX introduced me to aoudad as wild game meat. They have a big walk-in cooler, and they routinely hang the carcasses for 3-4 weeks (much like aged beef cattle). The meat is tasty but a bit chewy. It makes excellent burger and sausage, however.

Now, that all changed when a friend and I shot a big aoudad ram south of Ozona in the Pecos River canyon country. We ate backstrap steaks that night, but preparation was an eye-opener. Joe (our host) got out his commercial grade meat tenderizer, and he ran the backstrap steaks through the tenderizer 4 times each before we cooked them, Texas chicken-fried steak style. To give some perspective, a Grade A sirloin steak would be hamburger after going through that tenderizer twice. In any case, this made the meat edible, and it was tasty.

Just my limited experience with eating them.

Hunting them, though, is wonderful. Long hours of glassing, spot-and-stalk after finding them, and generally pretty long shots... all in spectacular country. They look damn fine on your wall, too.

Awesome. That’s exactly what I’m hoping for

We use to catch hundreds of them a year from helicopters and relocate them before they became popular to hunt. I’d imagine the market for them is still pretty strong and most LOs would take cash for them…

They are impressive animals but I hate the worthless varmits. They will eventually eliminate Bighorn sheep in Texas due to their competition along with other wildlife. Once full grown a mountain lion cant take them down so they dont have any natural predators. They are fun to hunt but they breed like rats and are super destructive to the environment. They are like feral hogs. Once they get established you really cant get rid of them.