First off thanks to singleshot85 for having down to his place and to juan valdez for helping me on the short drive down!!!!
I have been down hunting with Keith (singleshot85 here) a few times and have been lucky enough to take a very nice black buck a little over a year ago and a great white tail last season as well as MANY great eating white tail doe's to pack the freezer. Every time I am invited down I see many Axis buck ready for the taking but have never been able to put together a hunt until last weekend.
Juan Valdez, his son, and I headed out on Thursday after lunch and arrived at the ranch to meet Keith about 7:00 pm. We decided to do a little running around and checking things out that evening and see what was stirring about. The next morning we got up about 5 and headed out early to get settled early and wait. Very early on we had lots of traffic behind us but had the back of the blind closed so we could not see exactly what was going on so we just stayed still and waited it out. For some reason we had an very imature buck that just loved hanging out within pocket knife range (jaun has dubbed this ninja trowing star range) about 3 feet outside our blind. Luckily the wind was in our face and we did not spook this little shit head but he continued to hand out. In the short version of the video you will not see this but he will appear when the new video goes up.
While we were trying not to spook the little buck a very nice Axis appeared outside the feeder pen and before I could see if this was the buck I decided to chase or not he jumped in. We now had plenty of time to check him out and see what we thought and it did not take long for me to make my decision. After a brief little skirmish with a young buck (mostly playful this buck decided to leave and that was my cue. Unfortunately for me he did no present a great shot angle at first so Keith gave him a little whistle which stopped him but did not turn him so Keith got a little more serious about getting him to turn and then the .300 winmag had it's turn. 30 yards later he was piled up and done. Meat in the freezer and the taxidermist is taking care of the rest.
Again thanks to Keith and the Spanish Gourd Ranch for having me and if you are looking for a great hunt you should really look them up!!!! So on to the pics and video......
Picture on the hoof upper left corner of the pic way in the distance!
SHORT HD video of the last minute or so of the hunt. A longer lower resolution vid will be added soon.
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LINK HERE BECAUSE I CANT FIGURE OUT THIS EMBEDDING CRAP!
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click on the hd and go to 720p for better video
After pics and yes I know it's diet time for me!
Sorry for the long post and thanks for looking!!!!
NOmag
I have been down hunting with Keith (singleshot85 here) a few times and have been lucky enough to take a very nice black buck a little over a year ago and a great white tail last season as well as MANY great eating white tail doe's to pack the freezer. Every time I am invited down I see many Axis buck ready for the taking but have never been able to put together a hunt until last weekend.
Juan Valdez, his son, and I headed out on Thursday after lunch and arrived at the ranch to meet Keith about 7:00 pm. We decided to do a little running around and checking things out that evening and see what was stirring about. The next morning we got up about 5 and headed out early to get settled early and wait. Very early on we had lots of traffic behind us but had the back of the blind closed so we could not see exactly what was going on so we just stayed still and waited it out. For some reason we had an very imature buck that just loved hanging out within pocket knife range (jaun has dubbed this ninja trowing star range) about 3 feet outside our blind. Luckily the wind was in our face and we did not spook this little shit head but he continued to hand out. In the short version of the video you will not see this but he will appear when the new video goes up.
While we were trying not to spook the little buck a very nice Axis appeared outside the feeder pen and before I could see if this was the buck I decided to chase or not he jumped in. We now had plenty of time to check him out and see what we thought and it did not take long for me to make my decision. After a brief little skirmish with a young buck (mostly playful this buck decided to leave and that was my cue. Unfortunately for me he did no present a great shot angle at first so Keith gave him a little whistle which stopped him but did not turn him so Keith got a little more serious about getting him to turn and then the .300 winmag had it's turn. 30 yards later he was piled up and done. Meat in the freezer and the taxidermist is taking care of the rest.
Again thanks to Keith and the Spanish Gourd Ranch for having me and if you are looking for a great hunt you should really look them up!!!! So on to the pics and video......
Picture on the hoof upper left corner of the pic way in the distance!
SHORT HD video of the last minute or so of the hunt. A longer lower resolution vid will be added soon.
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LINK HERE BECAUSE I CANT FIGURE OUT THIS EMBEDDING CRAP!
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click on the hd and go to 720p for better video
After pics and yes I know it's diet time for me!
Sorry for the long post and thanks for looking!!!!
NOmag
