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My wife and kids get mad at me cause I very seldom answer a question with a simple yes or no.

Texas has a long history with exotics going back before the turn of the century. If you were to do a google search of "exotics in Texas" or "Texas Game Ranches" or "History of Exotic Game in Texas" one could probably spend hours reading, and it would give you a better understanding than what I can impart here in this limited time and space.

I hunt the Texas Hill Country. I've hunted Brackettville, RockSprings, Vanderpool and now Reagan Wells. This area is hilly,and sparsely developed with lots of ranches.
Like I said, exotics of all kinds from all over the world were introduced before the turn of the Century. They were stocked on high fenced game ranches. However, due to the terrain, when we get heavy rain, you have flash floods that knock down water gaps. Not to mention the fact that hogs and other critters make holes in the fence. In just a few years some places are almost inpenetrable. Game gets out. The hill country is much like the African plane and African game thrives. If you put axis in a confined area where they cannot escape, they will out breed the whitetail and you will end up with nothing but Axis over a period of years. I hunt only low fenced "working mans" leases where the game has filtered in over the last 100 years. I have taken Axis, Blackbuck Antelope, Fallow and Sika, deer. I've also taken Corsican, Mouflon, Black Hawaiian, Rambolet, and New Zealand Rams (my Texas Slam). I've never hunted high fence, and every thing on my wall is DIY.












The ranch I'm hunting on now is owned by the Dolph Bricoe Family. It is a low fenced/no fenced ranch of some 50,000 acres. My buds and I have a 1,700 acre "pasture" we hunt. Mind you, this land has been subject to "trespass lease hunters" for the last 70 years or so. Also there is no live water on this ranch other than gravity flow cisterns. Exotics such as Axis love water. Consequently we don't see as many Axis and Sika on this lease. But we have a ball. I'll be heading out Thursday for opening weekend of bow season. I'll set up a dozen snares for hogs. We're twenty miles from the nearest light source so there is no light pollution. Six miles from the nearest paved road, so no noise pollution. Just the wind and critters. Sit out at night and watch the milky way and shooting stars. August and September are great for meteors and shooting stars.

Best

GWB



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