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Well, we’re headed down to the Diamond TF Hunting Ranch in Sonora, Texas this weekend to scout for axis and make preparations for next month’s 1st Annual AAE Axis Fan Hunt! 
Trailcams have been out on fields and known travel routes, gathering “Intel” for several weeks now and we can’t wait to see what they have to reveal! We’re also hoping to get some pics and capture some video footage of live bucks that the hunters joining us will no doubt be after in a few short weeks.
The pic you see here was taken by the ranch owner’s son only a few weeks ago while driving the ranch…and, yes, “he’s” still out there! We’re gonna have some FUN! We will be updating this post next week when we return from our scouting adventure.
AllAboutExotics is thrilled to welcome Brushy Creek Outdoors to our Exotic Outfitter Directory. Brushy Creek Outdoors is a high fenced, 650-acre ranch in East Central Texas. Located in the Bryan College Station area, Brushy Creek would like to invite you to a hunting adventure for axis , red stag, fallow, blackbuck antelope, Texas dall sheep, as well as whitetail deer and wild hogs.
Brushy Creek Outdoors will cater to the most experienced hunter or the “rookie” hunter or child who is looking to create new memories, and hopefully a new lifestyle, while hunting for that elusive trophy animal. They have them and want to get them in your crosshairs.
Visit Brushy Creek Outdoors’ AAE page in our ‘Find A Hunt’ directory or visit their website (www.brushycreekoutdoors.com) to find other details including their great lodge, hunt prices, and other details about photo tours and varmit hunting. They are looking forward to planning your next hunting adventure!
Congratulations to AAE’s very own Craig Ellwanger on his article recently published in the latest volume of The Journal of the Texas Trophy Hunters magazine! In the 3-page featured article, Craig recounts his weekend at the Diamond TF Hunting Ranch in Sonora last fall when he harvested his first axis deer with a bow and biggest axis to date. The story actually making the magazine came as a bit of a surprise to its writer.
“It has long been a goal of mine to have one of my stories featured…ever since I picked up my first TTHA magazine as a teenager”, Craig says. “I was actually pretty shocked that my story was in there. I sent in the story almost 8 months ago and just assumed it hit the ‘no thanks’ pile with the others. I mention in the story that harvesting a trophy axis with a bow was a thrilling feeling, but this has to be up there as well.”
You can find “Coming Up Aces with Axis” on page 148 of the Sept/Oct edition of “The Journal”. If you do not subscribe to The Journal of the Texas Trophy Hunters or have access to a copy, you can read the original full story here:
“Coming Up Aces with Axis”
by Craig Ellwanger, AAE
There are hundreds and hundreds of hunting stories where everything just seems to come together perfectly (just watch the last 10 minutes of most hunting shows). The perfect stand, the perfect wind, the perfect time of year, and then the perfect deer walks out…BOOM. Story’s over. Yet, for most of us, events seldom transpire this way.
Hours, days, and even seasons worth of seemingly “perfect” set-ups may go by without the epic crescendo of a successful harvest. Our hunt in Sonora, Texas on the Diamond TF Ranch this past weekend was one of the best few days of my short bowhunting career, but it definitely did not start out nor appear as though it was headed that way. [To read the entire article, click here]
by Craig Ellwanger, AAE
The author w/ his first hog by bow
There will be lots of landowners and lease holders out there cussin’ out loud right now at the slightest peep or thought of a “nasty ol’ hog” story. If that’s you, simply turn away. For the rest of you, here is a “pig-tale” of an east Texas archery hog hunt.
Whether it’s the introduced Russian boar or the common “yard pig” turned wild hog, hunting for these barrel-shaped balls of destruction has become as much necessity as sport in Texas. Their ability to proliferate induces thoughts of a famous ESPN quote that goes something like “…you can’t stop ‘em…you can just hope to contain ‘em!”
A good friend of mine, Chris Farris, hunts a piece of property just outside of Bryan/College Station in Brazos County. Wanting to improve their resident deer herd and with a wild hog population on the brink of taking over, I was invited to try and assist in harvest efforts. Being the noble sportsman that I am, I would never scoff at the chance to help a fellow hunter with some population control – especially when the reward for doing so includes bacon and thick pork chops!
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Trailcams have been out on fields and known travel routes, gathering “Intel” for several weeks now and we can’t wait to see what they have to reveal! We’re also hoping to get some pics and capture some video footage of live bucks that the hunters joining us will no doubt be after in a few short weeks.
