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Hope you noticed the dink Oryx.......

Very nice. Did you use the 95 grain NBT on him?

Yep!

Tom,

Same place as last year?

Yep. Had a ball, and Gunner got a real dandy.


The oryx was on a different place.

Well done!!!!

I thought you might have.

ingwe, when we hunt Tx. a lot it was around Mt. Home.. They offered excellent processing for a very reasonable price.. You just choose to do your processing?
As I get older, I prefer to have my game cut and wrapped by a professional.. We have a guy here who does and outstanding job for a reasonable price.. I do my deer and we make the antelope into jerky, but elk go there..

The ranch we hunted for blackbuck and axis quarters and/or bones your meat out. Where I shot the oryx the guide and I boned it out. Once I get it home its easy to trim up into two piles...burger meat and steaks/chops. I then wrap it myself.
I do prefer to process my own meat with the exception of having my hamburger ground.
It comes from a deep seated mistrust of processors. Anytime Ive had it done I sure don't end up with as much meat, and the best cuts seem to be pretty small

OTOH I took an average whitetail buck into a processor and got back 145 pounds of meat. Don't know what it was, or whose it was...but it was sure a bigger deer after it was processed!

Also had a friend that did some game processing. He showed up here one day with a 68 qt. cooler full of nothing but elk backstraps. Nahhhhhhhh....the meat cutters don't keep the best cuts.....

I ran your pics thru the Night Vision (aka Lightroom). Great Holy Moly! There's some big boys in there! I count four or five that would make my decade. There's no telling what we might see with the original images! (hint!)

I'm thinking it's going to a tougher hunt this summer if everything stays green. Makes for some great spotting and stalking but it's hard to see em! Again sir, well done. Baker

LOL, I was thinking the same thing with you three, hope I made the cut.

Enjoy that BB jam, it don't get much better than that, Wifey says you're most welcome!

JG, I was just trying to stay outta the way.

A hog like me in the chow line ain't gonna get out of line.

It was a blast Charles, glad I got the invite.

Yessir, IIRC my Axis buck went 29.5"/30" the other axis weighed in about 110 lbs and the black feral sow would go about 120, good eats on the way!!!!!

You guys are starting to make me jealous. Those Axis look cool. Did you stand hunt of spot and stalk?

I took photos of a healthy axis a couple of days ago. I am tempted to head out back and sit in Tony's stand with his crossbow some before I head north for the summer. They certainly are moving about. Looking like Kodiak in 2018 might be happening as I moved Africa from 2018 to 2017...

That's a nice buck Ed. You might need to ground check him and take some fresh Axis meat to share with your friends in Idaho!!

Yep Ed thats a better buck than I shot! Cool beans on the Africa and Kodiak moves.
I think the quicker the better with Africa...no country over there has a certain future.

Nice animals, Ingwe! Should be some fine dining!