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Are those axis as tasty as everyone says? I'd love to have one. For some reason I think a tanned axis hide would be cool. Spike spoke my language too. He did more with less than anybody.

I think axis is as good as beef. I'd pass on a 140 whitetail to shoot a mature axis buck no matter what the horns look like. The hides are very cool. I'm thinking about covering my dining room chairs with hair on axis hide...

here is a pic of only buck i've shot



and these are a friends of mine at least the mounts

Man that deer has a red body.

THATS the size axis cape I need....

Hey, get me one like that, and then bring me some doe hides or buck hides, I'll have em tanned and swap you tanned hides for the cape?

I plan on shooting a few after deer season is over...
The field I planted still ain't took but it's gonna rain eventually...Then the axis hunting will get good...

7 stw if your referring to mine i took that as light was diminishing and with my phone i thought he was a better pic then expected

A respectable representative for the spike category...

I may have to steal that idea from you and tell the wife I came up with it. Considering it's a good tanning job, will the hair stay on hide/chairs like that for a while?

Yes, the hair will remain on for a good amount of time. Assuming the hide is treated correctly BEFORE it gets to the tannery and then tanned correctly.

The axis meat has yet to be beaten excepting moose, in my books. I tried to tell Bart not to eat it, the axis that is, that it wasn't good for him, to give it all to me. Somehow the cat got out of the bag though.... I don't think he has spoken to me much since.... I"ve been wanting to go shoot 1 axis doe every late winter just for the steaks but every spring I get tied up in other stuff and forget to go looking for a place that I can afford.

Jeff

Here's a couple from the last two years.

Whitetail in 07:


Mulie in 08:

Fisrt time I have seen the pics of the mulie Karnis. Congrats, he is real nice.

Congratulations to all that posted here.

Those are all great deer and you should be very proud of yourselves.

I enjoyed this thread immensely...........

Isn't this what a Hunter's Campfire conversation should be about?

Good luck to all in 2009.

May all your blood trails be bright and frothy!

Last years buck



Kid brothers first buck (this year)


Few days after the season closed


And the buck that I got this year.

That is too danged funny!

Ate more than a few years worth of those tags myself.

Pronghorn from '88, whitey in '98



This un on 01/01/07

That is one pretty whitetail mount in the bottom picture. That antelope looks heavy, what was his lenghth?

Here's a few of the whitetails I have taken, all taken on public land in NW Montana.

Here's few from over the years...

My first big one


2nd nice one. Both of these are Blacktail/Muledeer cross bucks


The little one was shot about 75 yards from the other the following year


Shot this deer in his bed..., another hybrid


Waited and waited for a big one, but he never showed. So I shot this one the last day of the season.


The ugliest deer I've ever shot!


And a couple from this year... Shot this one first
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/JBabcock/24HR1.jpg[/img]

And 1 week later, this one,
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/JBabcock/BigIdahoBuck.jpg[/img]

We was. The day I shot him he had 18.5" and 17.5" horns and he scored 91. Three months later they had shrunk an inch or so each and his score was about 87 I think. Today the horns are down to 15 and he tapes out about 81. I hope he's about done shrinking.