Texas Exotics Hunt
Well, I’m just about done wiping off the dust from the Lone Star State, but it’s gonna take a while to get over the fun 11 of us from Jesse’s Hunting and Outdoors just had down there.
Now let me start right off by saying, I know that Texas exotics hunting doesn’t appeal to everyone. It’s a lot like hunting pheasants on a preserve, although it’s not usually quite as easy. But when in Texas, we hunt over bait, and sometimes from vehicles to shoot animals that come from another country… and sometimes an entirely different habitat, although they’re doing quite well in this one. Many species that are endangered in their native habitat, such as the blackbuck antelope, are thriving almost too well in Texas.
They’ve long since escaped the high-fence ranches that held them in, and they run wild across the Hill Country landscape. I would say they compete with the native whitetails, but my eyes and experience tell me that the whitetails are definitely holding their own. Even so, a trip with Shane Hearn, of Border Bandit Outfitters, is a lot of fun and a fair enough challenge as well.
Anyway, I may be a little defensive. When I put up my video from this past weekend, I found it appeared in the company of a whole slew of anti-hunting and “canned hunt” videos. I watched several, and was appalled at the blatant propaganda. Anyway, I’ll save you the posting of one of the anti’s videos, although I was tempted. But here’s my video from the weekend. Hope you enjoy.
And if you have a moment, it may be enlightening to see some of the anti-hunters’ video as well. You might be surprised at how they twist our actions and our words against us, and how they use the actions of a small few to define the actions of many.
Great vid and congrats on the blackbuck doe. Looks like fun to me.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:56 am
Please, please kill as many of these #%$@ exotics as possible. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimates that more than 2 million exotic ungulates roam unfettered across Texas, possibly changing local ecosystems. Now that feral hogs, fallow deer,aoudad sheep, and black bucks are running wild in our state, we will probably never be able to get of these foreign interlopers. They are the animal biopollution equivalent of exotic weeds like Johnson Grass and Kudzu.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:43 pm