Are Sika deer good eating? - Texas Hunting Forum
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Sika doe vs Axis doe, better taste poll - Texas Hunting Forum
I personally like axis much better - but probably because axis is much closer to beef - a very fine lean quality of beef. Sika, being an elk species, is much closer to elk than beef. Some folks really like elk, and prefer that taste over beef. Those folks would certainly choose Sika over Axis. Elk (Sika) is some excellent meat, and even though ...
Sika - What is considered trophy caliber? - Texas Hunting Forum
Originally Posted By: txtrophy85. The first two are more typical of the average size of japaneese sika deer you will see. The bottom one is an extremely large specimen ( Gold Medal for R.O.E is 92"...he went 112") Sika typically have 3 points per side with the larger ones growing a 4th. very interesting animals, the more I am around them the ...
When do sika deer shed their velvet? - Texas Hunting Forum
2011年5月3日 · I am planning on taking a Sika deer hunt September 9-11th. These are the only days I would be able to go and I was wondering if they would have their velvet shed yet. I would rather shoot a sika in hard horn rather than in velvet? When do they shed?
Are Sika good eating? - Texas Hunting Forum
Posts: 2,136. Tyler, TX. I've only shot one, and it was an older bull. On the same trip, my wife took a couple of axis does. While each tasted different and axis is by far the best, the Sika was Delicious!!!! Reminded me of elk more then anything else. If the opportunity happens, I'd shot sika deer over whitetail for eating without thinking ...
Sika Deer - Texas Hunting Forum
Went on this hunt the weekend for the 22nd. Booked though Mulie Mike at WTHO. This was a free range Sika hunt. With all the flooding in Sonora the shot came down to the last hour of the last evening. The flooding made it very difficult to get around. I …
Sika question????? - Texas Hunting Forum
2021年9月7日 · I wanted the Japanese Sika because I like the smaller size, and I like that it's totally different then my Red Deer, or anything else that I have on the wall. When looking at different hunts, I saw a lot of Sika/Red Deer crosses being offered as pure sika deer, and one guy had young Red Deer pictures being offered as world class Sika Deer.
Axis deer Crossbreeding - Texas Hunting Forum
2014年12月8日 · Posts: 1,634. Deer Park, Tx. Back in the 50's, Axis were brought to the YO Ranch for a WT/Axis crossbreeding experiment in an attempt to get larger framed WT antlers. While the original crossbreeding worked as intended, the next generation reverted to original pure genetics on both sides. The program was abandoned.
Feeding Cotton Seed for Deer - Texas Hunting Forum
Joined: Jun 2015. Posts: 11,691. texas. If you feed cottonseed you should still also be feeding protein so the deer get minerals that cottonseed lacks. You would want to feed cotton seed from the middle/end of January-July/August to allow bucks the ability to pass on thier genes. Cottonseed can make bucks sterile.
Ram's Texas slam? - Texas Hunting Forum
2011年8月19日 · The Fallow Slam requires you to take one of each of the three-color phases of Fallow Deer. These are the White, Spotted, and Brown Fallow. The Sika slam consists of one each of the three sub- species of Sikas, which are the Japanese, Formosan, and Manchurian, which is commonly called the Dybowski Sika. 1. Texas Sheep Slam.