Texas Record of exotics

[JW]

Texas Record of exotics

Even Google failed me this time!







Naw, nothing specific. Just wondered. Back in the 80's a banking customer of ours, John Klaus, used to hold the #1 Aoudad. I'm sure that's been broken now. I was just curious to look through the list to see if I know anyone who holds a record.

It's a 170-6/8

[Tony Pic]

My good friend shot the #1 free range Muntjac on my place in Harper about 2 years ago and it is on record with SCI. I shot one in the same spot about 5 months later. But it was not record book.

[Outback77]

ROE offices were located in Ingram TX.
Not sure of a website, but like a few others have said a book is printed every year.

[JW]

My good friend shot the #1 free range Muntjac on my place in Harper about 2 years ago and it is on record with SCI. I shot one in the same spot about 5 months later. But it was not record book.

Indian or Reeves Muntjac?

[Outback77]

http://www.recordsofexotics.info/

[Burnadell]

Thanks, Jason. He is not on that list.

Here was the article:

Sunday, December 24, 1972 By DAN KLEPPER Outdoor Editor. Texas has become one of the most important sites in the world for herds of exotic a n i m a l s from Africa a n d Asia. Some species, notably the axis deer and blackbuck antelope, both Asian imports, have been a r o u n d these parts since the 1930s, while others, such as the ibex and oryx, are relative newcomers. In recent years Texas has been THE place to go if you w a n t e d to kill a trophy blackbuck. This state hasn't produced a world record antelope yet, but there probably are more of these' small a n i m a l s (over 5,000) on ranches here than in their native habitat in India. But Texas has produced at least one possible world record in another exotic species. This is an a o u d a d sheep, a big, maned animal from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Some big aoudads (pronounced a w -d a d) have been shot in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico in recent years. An aoudad with a 33 1-2- inch horn was killed in New Mexico In I960, and just this year one with a 32 3-4-inch horn was taken in the Texas Panhandle. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department stocked 44 animals (swapped from New M e x i c o ) in the Palo Duro Canyon region of the Panhandle in 1957. Today the department estimates there are around 700 sheep in the area. Rowland Ward of London, the official keeper of records From around the world, lists the record aoudad at 34 5-8 inches. It was found dead in the Atlas Mountains in Africa. Now Bandera County, Texas, has produced one much b i g g e r . It was killed last April by San Antonian John G. Klauss on his own ranch. Report is being m o u n t e d by Taxidermist E d Schleyer. Schleyer measured the horns Dec. 14, months after the animal was killed, so there should be no more shrinkage. The right horn on the old (he was about 15) ram measured 34^ inches, while the left horn reached an incredible 36 5-8 inches, two full inches longer than the current world record. Klauss said he has seen another old ram on his place with horns "as long, perhaps longer" than the one he killed in April.

[Tony Pic]

Indian or Reeves Muntjac?

That would be a Reeves.
I would like to brag on him a bit because he is a Sandbox vet (2 tours) and one of the best hunters I know. Minutes after he shot the male, he shot a female. Also on my place in Harper. Exotics running around free range like that, is exactly why I bought my ranch in Harper . My apologies to the OP for hijack.




Him fishing in Saddams pond in Tikrit.

[JW]

That would be a Reeves.

I would like to brag on him a bit because he is a Sandbox vet (2 tours) and one of the best hunters I know. Minutes after he shot the male, he shot a female. Also on my place in Harper. Exotics running around free range like that, is exactly why I bought my ranch in Harper . My apologies to the OP for hijack.









Him fishing in Saddams pond in Tikrit.

[emoji106]

[Burnadell]

That muntjac is HUGE...or is it tiny? I can't tell.

[Tony Pic]

That muntjac is HUGE...or is it tiny? I can't tell.

See...no bull here. #1 taken on my place free range.
There are 3 more running around I am told.
They have the coolest skull mounts ever.

[JW]

Texas Record of exotics

See...no bull here. #1 taken on my place free range.
There are 3 more running around I am told.
They have the coolest skull mounts ever.

Yep. A lot of folks don't know they are fanged as a lot of their fangs don't stick out of their lips like a Chinese Water Deer's do. You can see his good though.

[JW]

Thanks, Jason. He is not on that list.



Here was the article:



Sunday, December 24, 1972 By DAN KLEPPER Outdoor Editor. Texas has become one of the most important sites in the world for herds of exotic a n i m a l s from Africa a n d Asia. Some species, notably the axis deer and blackbuck antelope, both Asian imports, have been a r o u n d these parts since the 1930s, while others, such as the ibex and oryx, are relative newcomers. In recent years Texas has been THE place to go if you w a n t e d to kill a trophy blackbuck. This state hasn't produced a world record antelope yet, but there probably are more of these' small a n i m a l s (over 5,000) on ranches here than in their native habitat in India. But Texas has produced at least one possible world record in another exotic species. This is an a o u d a d sheep, a big, maned animal from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. Some big aoudads (pronounced a w -d a d) have been shot in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico in recent years. An aoudad with a 33 1-2- inch horn was killed in New Mexico In I960, and just this year one with a 32 3-4-inch horn was taken in the Texas Panhandle. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department stocked 44 animals (swapped from New M e x i c o ) in the Palo Duro Canyon region of the Panhandle in 1957. Today the department estimates there are around 700 sheep in the area. Rowland Ward of London, the official keeper of records From around the world, lists the record aoudad at 34 5-8 inches. It was found dead in the Atlas Mountains in Africa. Now Bandera County, Texas, has produced one much b i g g e r . It was killed last April by San Antonian John G. Klauss on his own ranch. Report is being m o u n t e d by Taxidermist E d Schleyer. Schleyer measured the horns Dec. 14, months after the animal was killed, so there should be no more shrinkage. The right horn on the old (he was about 15) ram measured 34^ inches, while the left horn reached an incredible 36 5-8 inches, two full inches longer than the current world record. Klauss said he has seen another old ram on his place with horns "as long, perhaps longer" than the one he killed in April.

Yes I don't have access to a ROE book right now.

[Burnadell]

See...no bull here. #1 taken on my place free range.
There are 3 more running around I am told.
They have the coolest skull mounts ever.

That's kind of scary looking!!!

[Tony Pic]

Muntjac hunts are in the 2500-4K range. Imagine knowing there was a world record opportunity on the place you were hunting?...free?
5 of them got off of someones ranch nearby. Had to. My cousin cross the road has had them penetrate his 12' high fence to access his deers food and exit. We(myself and neighbors) currently have a Muntjac moratorium on shooting them if anyone sees them.