The Frnka clan makes a haul!

Two nice management deer taken by the kids (they allowed the trophies to walk) and a huge pig taken by Bryan's uncle!

Jacob gets an Aoudad!

Bill's nephew came out to hunt with us this past weekend.  He and I sat up at Cave Blind Saturday evening, but only saw one deer.  However, we remarked the trail to the Cave so he could find it on his own Sunday morning.  He took this Aoudad with Bill's 270 Win BAR right at sunrise.  

220 lbs 26.75" right horn, 25.875" left horn.

Emily and Annabelle Dwyer each get their whitetail doe!

Animal Catch-Up!

Below are some animals from the past several weeks.  Congrats to all the hunters!

Ella and her first Sika doe!

Ella made a perfect shot on this Sika doe at #1 Sunday morning with her 7mm-08.  It has some reduced recoil load 120 gr Sierra Pro Hunter bullets loaded to 2,640 fps in a 20" barrel.  Perfect lung shot.  The deer took off and we found her about 50 yards into the brush.

Axis Down!

Fred's other buddy, Jimmy, took this on the side of the hill behind Wood Blind.  325 yards!

28" Aoudad Down!

Fred's buddy, Andrew, took this nice Aoudad this evening at Double Feeder.  28" horns, 13" bases, 236 lbs!

Yo Adrian! chalks up an Axis and Sika last weekend!

Adrian took this OLD Axis about 200 yards in Aoudad Canyon Saturday evening.  The buck was bedded down and ran up the hill.  Adrian nailed him at about 60 yards on the move.

Then, Adrian awoke Sunday morning from his Saturday celebrations and took this 4x4 Sika at #3.

Kid Hog

Morning Hog

Aoudad

I took this Aoudad last Friday.  He weighed 265 lbs and measure 28.75" R and 30.25" left.  Travis tracked him down into a creek bed.  Good dog!

Freddy Gets his Axis Buck!!!!

Free range hunting!  No feeders!

Don gets Dino-Turkey!

It's old and it's big!   32 pounds!   Look at those feet!  You only see feet like those in a nursing home!

Blake gets his Tom at Photo Blind

Some of our recent Aoudads!

Bryan with his 26.5" Aoudad from the Dog House.  He said a larger stepped out after he shot this one!  Doesn't that always happen!

Adrian's friend took this 26" Aoudad at Cave Blind.

Here are two Aoudad that John Waller and his friend took at the same time at Death Star,  26" and 28"!

Kevin gets his Aoudad!

Kevin took this nice Aoudad Thursday night at #10.  He had a big herd of Aoudad come in, but they were spooky.  He saw this big one lurking in the brush, but he would never come in.  He started walking away and got a good shot in through an opening in a cedar tree and dropped him!

He weighted 241 lbs, measured 27.5 "long with 11.5" bases.

Congrats Kevin!


When he was walking.....

Successful Aoudad Charity Hunt!

Darryl and I took the Joe Jelinski Aoudad hunting this past weekend at the Hackberry.  Joe was the winning bidder at an auction for the Austin Woods and Water Club, which is dedicated to promote wildlife conservation and training a generation of new hunters.   Accompanying Joe was his friend Richard and Cliff Woerner, one of the members of AWWC.

It only took us two hunts, Thursday night and then Friday morning to get Joe's Aoudad.   He was one of four that came into the Cave Blind.  He was old, mature, and had a case of mange (Rhode's said they could airbrush it to match the hair color).   A perfect animal to take.

Richard was hunting for Axis does and hogs, but was unsuccessful.  He did see some good Axis bucks and lots turkeys, though.

Joe made a perfect shot from 130 yards with his 30-06.  Complete pass through and the Aoudad jumped and ran 30 yards.   He was quite a beast to get loaded, 210 pounds on the scale.

Congrats to Joe!  

Fred's 375 yard Axis Doe!

Fred - was it meters or yards?

White Tail deer from this fall season....

Here are some deer from this fall.   Adrian got a great management 10 pt as did Darryl's nephew.  The third deer is Darryl's management and the last one belongs to Kelly.  Things were slow this year.  We had some great deer on game cams through October and then they holed up across the state.