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Dr. Gibson (left) and Brian Hemphill with the pending SCI #2 axis
Some good friends of ours just harvested what could soon prove to be the 2nd biggest typical axis ever harvested with a bow outside of a high fence!
Dr. Pat Gibson of San Angelo, Texas, hunting as a guest of Brian Hemphill on his private ranch, was able this brute of a deer. The buck doesn’t sport overwhelming main beam length (29-31 inch beam measurements), but what he lacks in that department he easily makes up for everywhere else! The deer’s caudals, brows, width and exceptional mass, lend to a ‘green’ score of 164 & 4/8″! Qualifying trophies can be submitted to the Online Record Book immediately, but SCI requires that Top 10 entries go through a 60-day ‘drying period’. After that time, if that score holds up, Dr. Gibson’s axis is poised to assume the #2 spot in the SCI all-time record book for free-range axis with a bow, behind only Rob Sylvia’s 173 & 1/8″ axis taken back in 2007 in Victoria County, Texas. At this moment, the #2 spot is held by Doug Lambert’s 160 & 4/8″ Kimble Co. buck, so the gap between spots 1 and 2 is pretty significant window to allow for Dr. Gibson’s buck to slide in and take the lofty spot, even after the 60-day drying period wait.
Regardless of where this deer winds up in the record book, a big ‘congrats’ from the AAE Crew to Dr. Gibson on a truly world class axis buck!!
Join Central Texas Safari Club in a fun filled night with a gourmet wild game banquet dinner, entertainment, cash bar with Happy Hour Specials, raffles and auctions. This event will definitely sell out! Make sure you don’t miss what’s to be one of the greatest parties of the year!
Event: 2011 Central Texas Safari Club Hunter’s Legacy Gala
“Hunt Texas – Live Big”
Date: Tuesday – October 25, 2011
Location: The Historic Austin Club 110 E. 9th Street, Austin, TX 78701
Vendors available: 2:30 – 6 PM
Cocktail Hour: 5 – 7 PM
Banquet doors open: 6 PM
For more information, contact leanncollins29@gmail.com
via The Hunting Wire
WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced on Thursday, July 7, 2011, a proposed rule to regulate the take of three endangered exotic antelope species – the scimitar-horned oryx, dama gazelle, and addax. The FWS was required to issue this proposed rule as a result of a 2009 order from the federal court.
The proposed rule states that the FWS will issue permits for the take of the three antelope species, in a manner similar to the way in which permits are issued for other exotic captive bred wildlife in the United States. The FWS has given the public 30 days to comment on the proposed rule. The current, permitless system will continue to apply until a final rule is issued.
In response to the rule, Safari Club International (SCI) President Kevin Anderson released the following statement:
“Permits need not be the undoing of the exceptional conservation strides achieved by the private ranching and hunting communities in recovering these three species on captive herds in the U.S. SCI will be playing a leadership role in developing and recommending a process that will cause the least interference to the industry that has brought these three species back from the brink of extinction. (more…)
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Category AAE News, Conservation News, Exotic News | Tags: Tags: 3 exotic species, addax antelope, dama gazelle, exotic permits, Safari Club International, save the species campaign, sci, scimitar-horned oryx, US Fish & Wildlife Service,
NOT the ram in question...or was that even a question?
There is news out of SW Texas that a potential new world record aoudad ram may have been harvested near Rocksprings, Tx very recently. The ram is rumored to have horn lengths of 44 inches! Eighty-eight inches of horn coupled w/ even average mass measurements would give the current world records a run for their money, to say the least!
The current SCI scoring record is currently held by LeNan Hancock and scores 166 & 6/8″ SCI, while Larry Casey’s 130 & 7/8″ ram tops the charts in the ROE record book (Hancock’s ram is #2 in ROE). If these initial reports are true and this new ram does sport close to 44″ horns, it will most likely shattered both records. Casey’s record ram had 39 & 40 inch horns, while Hancock’s trophy could boast only 39 & 37 inch measurements! This gives some idea just how big this ram could be…44″ is mind blowing!
We will keep you posted on any pictures or news about this giant ram as it becomes available.
