“But, but they are not a native species.”

[AtTheWall]

4 nights ago, outside my back bedroom window. Axis Unicorn with his lady - 0430 AM.

Better than TV at times.

[Sparkles]

4 nights ago, outside my back bedroom window. Axis Unicorn with his lady - 0430 AM.

Better than TV at times.

I already told you what you need to do
Oreo needs a buddy that’s not a cat


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[PondPopper]

I don’t think it will be long (maybe 10 years) before Axis and Nilgai become game animals. There money for the State to make.

I'll bite...

This can't happen fast enough!!! It should have happened years ago.
Unfortunately it probably won't ever happen.

[diamond10x]

I'm sure the residents of Alaska feel the same one when all these new people start moving up there and start taking "their" resources.

Maybe so, I’m sure there’s definitely a few

[tdwinklr]

bring 'em on.. Maybe it will drive the deer hunt prices down.

[AntlerCollector]

The whitetails do have to wait their turn at the feeders when the Axis are eating.




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[PondPopper]

The whitetails do have to wait their turn at the feeders when the Axis are eating.




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He better leave before they kill him..

[AntlerCollector]

He better leave before they kill him..

[PondPopper]

"A Pile of bison skulls collected from the prairie and staged up to be ground into fertilizer. Thankful we have become modern conservationists today! Circa 1870. Hunting is History!"

Tom Miranda

[AntlerCollector]

Little known fact: those bison would have been slaughtered even if native Americans didn’t depend on them. The railroads needed them gone to expand to the west. Government killed two birds with one stone by killing them to near extinction.

[PondPopper]

Little known fact: those bison would have been slaughtered even if native Americans didn’t depend on them. The railroads needed them gone to expand to the west. Government killed two birds with one stone by killing them to near extinction.

Yep Until laws were passed to stop the ones that were doing it. It Won't ever happen again..

[Tony Pic]

This is a interesting thread.
Invasives are a curse and a blessing all at once. Science has taught us that invasives are just that and typically do not fit in where they invade for reasons stated. But capitalism/freedom has taught us that Hogs and Axis and Fallow and BlackBuck and...I can go on. Have great value and there is a demand for these critters.

How hard of a financial hit would Texas take if these "invasives" were not here?

[PondPopper]

This is a interesting thread.
Invasives are a curse and a blessing all at once. Science has taught us that invasives are just that and typically do not fit in where they invade for reasons stated. But capitalism/freedom has taught us that Hogs and Axis and Fallow and BlackBuck and...I can go on. Have great value and there is a demand for these critters.

How hard of a financial hit would Texas take if these "invasives" were not here?

Just ask the HF ranchers/outfitters that lost most of them during the big freeze.
It crushed some of them financially..

[donpablo]

I'll bite...

This can't happen fast enough!!! It should have happened years ago.
Unfortunately it probably won't ever happen.

Oh yeah, we should make exotics game animals. And while we're at it we can make cattle and sheep and horses and bunnies and everything else that lives game animals so they can be protected. I think somebody has joined PETA.

[MtnMike]

Axis can be a problem for ranchers. My neighbor has a coastal patch that the axis have ruined. He's got 100-150 in it every night or used to until they ruined his pasture.

I told him I could help him with that problem one shot at a time and got no response. He was complaining about them again one night at a party at my home and I again told him I'd be glad to help him out with it. He himhawed around about it and said one of his other neighbors would get ****** at him because he sells axis hunts and BLAH BLAH BLAH.

So all of a sudden, they were not such a big problem!! Well as a good neighbor, I will pay $100.00 each for Axis just to help with all the "damages"!!