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You can find cool exotic pics just about anywhere. We found this unique pic on a phone background app available through Palm. It is an axis buck in velvet with small finches perched on the tines of his antlers. Whether it’s an actual picture or not, we thought we’d share because it is a very interesting image.
Our theory: a taxidermied axis ran into a creative mind with some Photoshop experience. What do you think?
Mason Mountain WMA Exotics
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) is offering your chance to win some amazing Texas dream hunts. From whitetail to waterfowl, these packages are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to hunt some of the most sought after areas Texas has to offer. The ‘Texas Grand Slam’ even lets one lucky hunter pursue whitetail, bighorn sheep, pronghorn, and mule deer! You might have guessed, but here’s our favorite:
Texas Exotic Safari
Two winners will experience the thrill of hunting African exotic game, right here in Texas on the famous Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area. Winners can take advantage of two exotic hunting opportunities for species including sable antelope, gemsbok oryx, scimitar-horned oryx or axis deer. Hunters may choose to (more…)
INGRAM, Texas — The federal court ruling that threatens the thoughtless extinction of the scimitar-horned oryx, as well as two other exotic species and a $1.3 billion industry, is receiving national attention. Award-winning television producer and host Keith Warren is putting the spotlight on the Exotic Wildlife Association (EWA) and its fight to preserve these majestic animals in a new episode of The High Road with Keith Warren. The show will air three times during the week of July 12, 2010, on the Pursuit Channel (Direct TV 608).
Last year, the EWA appealed the ruling of Federal Judge Henry Kennedy who overturned a special rule by the U.S. Fish& Wildlife Department that allowed three antelope species to be born, raised and freely traded in the United States withoutthe USFWD permitting process. Without the special rule, conservation efforts will most likely cease and the populations for the three species are expected to dramatically deminish.
“The scimitar-horned oryx is a perfect example of how successful the special rules exemption has been to the species’ survival,” says Charly Seale, executive director of the Exotic Wildlife Association. “While these animals are all but gone intheir native country, there are currently thousands of these amazing animals being cared for and raised on preserves and ranches across the country. Many endangered species are virtually extinct (more…)
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We had over 300 booth visitors sign up for a chance to win the AAE raffle at the Central Texas Hunting & Fishing Expo in Austin, Tx this past weekend. The winning tickets were drawn Sunday afternoon at 4pm, before the show’s conclusion.
Our lucky winners were:
Tanned Axis Buck Rug – Ken Ingram of Round Rock, Tx
GameGuard Cooler – Ernest Garcia of San Antonio, Tx
Congratulations to both of our winners and thank you to everyone that stopped by our booth and participated in the raffle. We hope to give away more great prizes at our next show – the TTHA Extravaganza in Houston, August 6-8. We hope to see everyone there!
