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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I just read about the Axis deer and saw a picture.  I have a cousin, named 
Hannibal , who ran off to Texas a number of years back.  He was a hunting 
fool as a young man, probably still is .. So, if you see a big ole redkeck 
either shooting at or riding an elephant, you know his name and can tell him, 
that Robert in Phoenix says hello.....<g> ...bobford


--- On Thu, 10/9/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tool to assist field dressing deer
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 2:02 PM
> We are overrun by the imported Axis deer, which breed all 
> year round. Fortunately our place is high fenced to keep 
> them out of the garden. They have spots and look like 
> adult fawns. They are crowding out the white tails who 
> must compete with them for food, and are in season all the 
> time along with feral hogs. So locals can hunt pretty much 
> year round.
> 
> My part of Texas is known for the large number of exotics 
> raised, mostly for 'hunters' (i.e. doctors,
> lawyers, 
> football players who pay 10K to bag something accustomed 
> to eating corn out of a feeder daily and then mount the 
> heads on their walls). Some of them have escaped and are 
> breeding on their own. There are also ranchers involved in 
> breeding endangered hoofstock like the Scimitar Oryx. It 
> is not unusual to see zebra, camels, elk, black buck 
> antelope, wildebeast, auodad and other African or Aisian 
> stuff around here.
> 
> --Sage
> Way Out in Texas
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:37:00 -0400
>   toni eddleman <tonitime AT juno.com> wrote:
> > We are also having a deep explosion around here! 
> First 
> >year my garden
> > was truly ended early by them - and the  severe
> drought 
> >helping it along.
> > On my way home from the next county the other nite, - 
> >1/2 hour drive, i
> > saw 6 groups of 4-6 deer in that small drive.  There 
> >have been a pair of 
> > twin boys, 2-pointers hanging around our gate in! 
> > Plenty of corn growing
> > nearby in large amounts, and all my corn wiped out by 
> >the deer and my 
> > Husky pup!
> > 
> > I do not hunt, but it is everyone's way of life in
> this 
> >part of KY
> > Appalachia.  All i have to do is wait for a nice cool 
> >butchering week,
> > and give a girlfriend a call.  A couple hours later,
> she 
> >will tell me
> > which good ol' boy has my deer waiting for pickup!
> 
> > Soon, i hope.  I also
> > have two people who want to come back here and help 
> >lower our  numbers of
> > deer!  I will offer my log cabin for sleep, feed them,
> 
> >and get a deer,
> > too!
> > 
> > La Dolce Vita :)
> > Toni
> >
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