So what's your strategy for targeting axis bucks?
I hear they like to hang around bottoms and creek areas.
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I hear they like to hang around bottoms and creek areas.
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Protein Blocks, Protein and AlfalfaOriginally posted by MasonCo. View Post -
Agreed on alfalfaComment
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Thanks
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They can't resist alfalfa.Comment
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They resisted the alfalfa we put in our feed pens a couple months ago. We've not found anything that they will come to in a feed pen consistently, on our place at least. The only way we've killed them is spot and stalk in the thick brush with rifles.Comment
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chaffhaye worked well for usComment
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ours like hay fields, not the bottoms...Comment
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Ditto. Axis congregate in coastal hay field with a smaller herd sticking close to hillside. Never see any of em down by the riverOriginally posted by Axis FMJ View PostComment
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Alfalfa and oaksComment
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I think they like edge cover more than thick bottom land. Our axis come to corn feeders like crazy.Comment
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I hunt in Kinney county and the axis rut is in the summer time. My blind is on one side of a creek and the feeders are on the other side, about 30 yards away. The feeders are south east of my blind and in the summer, the prevailing wind is south east so I always have the wind in my face. I get into the blind about at least an hour before sunlight, walking in from down wind.
For me, water is the key, especially if it hasn't rained in a while and corn feeders with remotes.
Here is a video I shot last year. Only mature males make this sound, calling does so if you hear this you have a mature male in the area.
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Listen then go.Comment
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Two months ago, our axis were not interested at all in alfalfa either. Now, they are crushing it and we can barely keep any in the feed pen.Originally posted by Shane View PostComment
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