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    Posted: 27 May 2010 at 12:45

Hunting buddy Tom Yones and I drove down to Kerrville/Hunt, Tx area this past Tuesday night to hunt pigs and axis and possible blackbuck.  We hunted on the Stowers Ranch with ranch Manager shawn Kendrick.  Round trip drive was 1300 miles. Weather was wonderful--80 instead of the usual hundred. The ranch is a working cattle ranch that offers primarily whitetail and bird hunting, and a few axis/blackbuck, aoudad/yr.  They have a web-site.

First critter to get it's picture taken--a wild racoon.  When he finally saw me, he ran off, spooking two turkeys and alerting two axis bucks.
   

Tom's first-day hog
   

   

Mobile cow-bird catcher.  The cowbirds endanger golden-cheeked warblers by switching eggs
   

Century old stone work around water tank
   
Tom and his 200 yd DRT hog

   

   

Lace cactus
   

Prickly pear blooming
   

The WhatIZZIT?
   

My Axis.  Ran 200+ yds after high lung shot:
   

Shawn.  Deer field-dressed 175#
   

Another view of the WhatIZZIT?
   

Flower
   

Black Stripe
   

Old Stower's Ranch House.  Teddy Roosevelt hunted here.
   

Old corral
   

VERY Prickly Pear.  Look closely:
   

A drop into the cave:
   

Within the Cave
   

2 " "Pearl" growing on cave floor:
   

Cave Growth
   

Deeper yet:
   

Not so deep, but layered with modern-era bones:
  

We left only tracks in the cave.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rob1 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 May 2010 at 14:15
 Nice photos. I particularly like the water tank.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote CB900F Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 May 2010 at 16:18

Sgraves;

Nice report & fine photos.  Congratulations on what certainly looked to be a great hunt.  I gotta admit, I'd like to do some hog hunting myself.  I also gotta admit I wouldn't have left the very prickly part of that cactus patch intact.

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The terrible cold spell killed many thousands of axis and blackbuck and nilghai. I suspect many whitetail bucks, worn out from the rut, also were killed.
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Great old post.  nice pic.

Thanks for bringing it back up Steve.

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