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I hunt a place in Texas that is covered up with Sika...I keep hearing they taste like elk.....soooooooo.... Rifle is a .275 Rigby Ruger African 150 Gr. NBT This one was 177 yards. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/GnBywiZ.jpg)
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Love it Tom. Congrats. Please let us know what you think of the meat if you don't mind.
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Will do Johnny. I threw a couple bites into the frying pan while butchering this critter..eye of round ( not necessarily a good cut) and fried quickly ( not necessarily the right way to cook it).....wasn't bad!
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Proper bullet placement + sufficient penetration = quick, clean kill. Finn Aagard
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Congrats. Nice looking Sika.
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Cool looking critter! Hard to tell from the picture but are they a bit smaller than a deer or about the same size??
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Neat looking buck,
are exotics fair game there,or do you need specific tags?
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Nice Rack on it! iv also heard that they were good eating!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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Cool looking critter! Hard to tell from the picture but are they a bit smaller than a deer or about the same size?? About the same size #150-#160 on the hoof.
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Neat looking buck,
are exotics fair game there,or do you need specific tags? Exotics are fair game in Texas..but the land is 98% private, so they come at a price...
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Way to go, Tom! That’s a real nice one.
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Way to go, Tom! That’s a real nice one. Thanks Bob! I figured with the rain you guys got and the good mast crop that this would be a good year to find a good specimen. I saw a number of nice ones, bertter than Ive seen in the past, but the one I shot got it cause he was starting to crown out...never seen that in a Sika before...
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Ingwe, excuse my ignorance.
What do you mean by crown out?
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ingwe, nice buck.. Shot lots of stuff in Tx.. but never a Sika!! That is a cool one.. Maybe next trip!!
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Ingwe, excuse my ignorance.
What do you mean by crown out?
-Jake The tips of the antlers start to form a bowl...or "crown" Common in big red stags, not so much on the lesser species .
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Ingwe, excuse my ignorance.
What do you mean by crown out?
-Jake The tips of the antlers start to form a bowl...or "crown" Common in big red stags, not so much on the lesser species . Oh I see. Thanks. Is this the same Sika they have running around in the swamps in Maryland? -Jake
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Very nicely done! I shot a girl version of that a few years back. It ate well enough. Not blow your mind good, but good. They are neat critters.
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Thanks. Is this the same Sika they have running around in the swamps in Maryland?
-Jake Yes, but they don't seem to get that big in Maryland....but its the same one . Just saw an episode of Meat Eater where they were hunting them in Maryland.
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Ingwe; Not an important question but do you know what sub-species of Sika Deer yours was? Size wise I would wager Manchurian (based upon my very limited knowledge)
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Ingwe; Not an important question but do you know what sub-species of Sika Deer yours was? Size wise I would wager Manchurian (based upon my very limited knowledge)
Thanks GRF Not sure...commonly referred to as the Japanese Sika.....but that doesn't make it right...
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